tj

That logic is flawed. Just because we don’t understand why there is something rather than nothing, there is no logical implication that there could be a higher being. “Coincidence” would seem to be a much more likely reason (until/if we understand why) - much like coincidence being the reason for most (all?) observed miracles

Elon Musk: “Hold my beer”

Also,

• What is your mother’s maiden name?
• What is the name of the street you grew up on?
• What was the name of your first pet?

It is indeed. Main consequence of this is that if you join a new or small instance, you will see less of the fediverse without actively seeking it

By that logic, how do you learn to talk? Before you understand language, no one can explain the meaning of words to you.

I imagine this happens the same way. You “bootstrap” language by introducing a few touch signs and go from there.

I have a central NAS server that hosts all my personal files and shares them (via smb, ssh, syncthing and jellyfin). It also pulls backups from all my local servers and cloud services (google drive, onedrive, dropbox, evernote, mail, calender and contacts, etc.). It runs zfs raid 1 and snapshots every 15 minute. Every night it backs up important files to Backblaze in a US region and azure in a EU region (using restic).

I have a bootstrap procedure in place to do a “clean room recovery” assuming I lost access to all my devices - i only need to remember a tediously long encryption password for a small package containing everything needed to recover from scratch. It is tested every year during Christmas holidays including comparing every single backed and restored file with the original via md5/sha256 comparison.

DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:

• ssh (SCP/sshfs shared)
• smb
• jellyfin
• syncthing
• dovecot
• rclone for pull backups from Google drove, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
• restic for backing everything up to backblaze + azure

Intel NUC running:

• zwavejs
• deconz / phoscon

Intel NUC (DMZ) running:

• wireguard
• home assistant
• Doods (object detection for home assistant camera entities
• mosquitto mqtt
• unifi controller
• AdGuardHome
• roundcube email
• nginx reverse proxy for all services + hosting some static sites