I feel ridiculous having to write any of this down, but leaving anything up for misinterpretation is dangerous. Each one of these truths should be "self evident", to borrow a phrase, but the current political climate in the United States requires each of us to make clear where we stand. So, this is where I stand.

• personal

Backups are important. Money is important. I don't want backups to take up all my money, and I have several terabytes to back up. So, what's a girl to do?

• linux
• server
• troubleshooting

I've joined the SDF's Mastodon instance for a little federated fun. I'm honestly not entirely sure why, but it felt like it was time... and I had a message to send to someone who had an account. It seemed like a good idea at the time?

• fediverse
• mastodon

When relying on Free/libre software, and the services provided by those projects, I try not to be a bother. I download distros using torrents, and seed when I can. So when they released Debian Trixie, I realized I have a lot of Debian machines to upgrade, and that would require hitting the Debian repositories an awful lot. Unless...

• linux
• server

I use a lot of web apps. Most of them I run in Firefox, but there are occasions where I need to run them in another browser, specifically Chromium, for compatibility reasons. I'm looking at you, Microsoft Teams.

• browser