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amin, 9 days ago to random

I love tortoises. Even when they eat all the veggies in the garden. The little scamps, they can get away with anything with those cute faces.

I miss my tortoises. We left them behind in Afghanistan when I was six. :(

amin, 11 days ago to random

To those starting out with their writing:

9 times out of 10, one of the biggest improvements you can make is gonna be better paragraphing. Let the text breathe a little!

Breaking your text up into smaller segments makes it easier to read and lets you have more control over the pacing.

amin, 12 days ago to random

Brilliant post from Manu today.

https://manuelmoreale.com/consumption-to-creation-ratio

Scubrats, now I'm going to be thinking about this constantly. 😂

amin, 16 days ago to random

The web is changing. (Nobody denies that, of course.) The biggest changes revolve around money. (And that, as well, is not exactly surprising.)

The impetus of these changes is a shift in perspective by major web companies and media sources—a perspective that is not yet shared by their audiences.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/the-great-paywall/

#100DaysToOffload 23/100

amin, 18 days ago to random

Photo backup from my iPhone to my Linux computer has long been a source of frustration for me.

Up till now, my efforts had been mainly focused on cloud backup (to self-hosted services), but now I have a nice, offline solution.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/syncing-my-photos-from-ios-using-ifuse-and-rsync/

#100DaysToOffload 21/100

amin, 23 days ago to random

I've been loving Manu's People and Blogs series, but one thing that has caught my eye is how much some people are paying to run their blogs. Sometimes, it's much more than I can afford and, I suspect, more than many beginning bloggers are willing or able to shell out.

So, for you wonderful, creative beginning bloggers, I’ve done some research and put together this guide to blogging on a budget.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/blogging-on-a-budget/

If you have recommendations I'd love to add them to this post, just let me know.

#100DaysToOffload 20/100

amin, 24 days ago to random

Well I worked out a way to back up my photos from my phone directly to my computer. Of course, in the process I accidentally deleted all the photos on my phone with a ill-advised rm -r, but at least the ones deleted are backed up to my computer? 🫠

amin, 28 days ago to random

Hey, you. Yeah, you right there.

You should be proud of yourself. If you're not, well at least I promise that I'm proud of you. You are awesome and I'm honored to know you. And if I don't know you yet, I look forward to our impending friendship; say hello!

Fighting words, I know. But I still believe it to be true.

amin, 28 days ago to veloren

Had fun playing #Veloren today with @RL_Dane, @jp, @ivan, and @joel today! :D

Ivan, Joel, JP, and me in a hut around a different fire, prepping to go beat up a tarantula.

amin, 29 days ago to random

@sotolf

https://bin.benjaminhollon.com is now on my new server and will stop going down when I move around. ;)

Should be more performant too.

amin, 29 days ago to random

Well, I just pulled the trigger on a dedicated server from OVHCloud, I'm looking forward to it. For $28/mo:

• 8 cores, 16 threads
• 32 GB RAM
• 4x 2TB HDD (Software RAID)

I have to say that while dedicated servers can be expensive the price to performance ratio of this is insane.

I'll probably be moving everything I host over to this over the next week or so (including Polymaths, Clew, and my self-hosted stuff). :)