Nice! Reminds me of The Door Problem: https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1741/
Doors I touched today (1999)
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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main reason I'm looking forward to being dead is that I will no longer have to worry about whether some website is working or not.
I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications. It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition. The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date. The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and wh…
Tech should make lives easier, not harder
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications. It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition. The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date. The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and wh…
Tech should make lives easier, not harder
If you have spent at least ten minutes around post-Y2K computing, you know this is not the case.
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main reason I'm looking forward to being dead is that I will no longer have to worry about whether some website is working or not.
I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications. It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition. The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date. The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and wh…
Well it sounds like, if you haven't, you should start documenting the important things immediately.
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people are literally addicted to the stuff https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/feb/02/the-real-thing-...
That's totally frightening... makes me feel better about the trouble I had reducing my coffee intake. Caffeine can be pretty rough, addiction-wise.
My experience with caffeine withdrawal is horrible each time it's happened (and I didn't take great care to taper slowly). This is one of my favorite articles about it "Worse Than The Flu": https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/04/worse_than_the_flu.h...
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications. It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition. The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date. The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and wh…
Well it sounds like, if you haven't, you should start documenting the important things immediately.
It's in place for years already :)
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications. It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition. The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date. The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and wh…
Tech should make lives easier, not harder
To end users - sure. To developers and geeks, certainly not. Where would be the fun otherwise.
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably compact flash. All the cool cameras used it back then iirc.
Fair enough. In the late 90's we had one of the Sony Mavicas, and at the time I wasn't involved enough in photography to really know of much else on the market. Thinking about it now though, Compact Flash had been around since the early 90's right?
Around 94 according to Wikipedia.
The floppy camera was cute because floppies were cheap and available; compact flash was really expensive for quite awhile.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/a-... - some of them were using full-size PCMCIA!
Re: Doors I touched today (1999)
#99Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."
Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
Why? You want to host a blog in the afterlife? All kidding aside, why not just hand over your internet assets to a trusted family member who will handle everything when you are gone?