20190101.txt
It's a new year. Hopefully a much better year than 2018 for me. Not
much is happening with me, although I'm trying to write a bit more.
One problem I'm having is that lynx 2.8.9 on my local machine will not
connect to republic.circumlunar.space. IDK why. UMN Gopher browser
seems to work fine with it. I'm guessing there's some sort of issue
translating some gopher code to HTML (at least that's what I believe
Lynx does with Gopher when I view the source code), but Lynx 2.8.8
works fine on SDF to view this, so... whatever. It's just another bump
on the road.
Another compatibility issue with hopefully just my local box is that
it takes a very long time, like 2-3 minutes, to ssh into republic.
Again, I have no idea why. I thought it might be an issue with my ISP,
but considering UMN gopher gets there just fine, I doubt it. I'm still
discovering new old CLI programs and tweaking my .bash_profile. A word
of advice: do NOT put "rm" shortcuts in your .bash_profile. Ever. I
created a umount shortcut to simulate Thunar File Manager's
mount/unmount and I assumed "umount $1;rm -r $1" would wait for the
unmount before rm'ing. Not really. Lost a lot of video and audio,
although most had been backed up, so I wasn't totally devastated like
the time my external HD bay which had ALL of my backup HDs decided to
have power issues and blanked the drive, I didn't lose a bunch of
memories and thankfully my idiotic password storage file was not lost.
I'm pretty terrible with backups, at least physical ones. Live and
learn, I guess, although I don't really learn much besides (ab)using
Alphabet's free Photos storage to back up all my images/videos.
