I have a few small services I’ve been hosting on a Raspberry Pi 5 but ever since I saw a list of no JavaScript/CSS/HTML sites, I’ve been interested in hosting some simple pages just for myself. I’ll probably look into something that can create simple pages with markdown because it’s something simple that I’m already comfortable with.

My friend invited me for a night out with her kinda partner and a few of her friends for a pride party. Had such a fun night. My friend says I am now an honorary lesbian.

I created my own script/tool using rsync to handle backups and transferring data.

My needs are quite smaller with just a computer and two Raspberry Pi’s but I found rsync to be really useful overall.

My backup strategy is to make a complete backup on the local device (Computer / RPi4 / RPi5) then copy all those backups to a Storage partition on my computer, then make a whole backup from the partition to an externally attached SSD.

The RPi’s both use docker/podman containers so I make sure any persistent data is in mounted directories. I usually stop all containers before performing a backup, especially things with databases.

Everything in the docker containers is either hit or miss when it comes to restoring. The simple docker images restore as it they were untouched and will launch like nothing happened. I have a PieFed instance that must be rebuilt after restoring a backup. Since PieFed’s persistent data is in mount points, everything works perfectly after a fresh build.

I can send a link to my rsync tool if that’s any interest to anyone. I’ve found it super useful for backups and minimizes so much headache for myself when it comes to transferring files between different network connected devices.

Manipulative behaviour. My four year older sister, for reasons I can only guess, has disliked me pretty much my entire life. She has always been so petty towards me and has been very manipulative in her pettiness towards me.

At a young a I learned to protect myself by shutting myself off from manipulative behaviour. I didn’t know I was so sensitive to manipulators until I was in my mid 30s having a complete mental breakdown due to due the covid lockdowns. It seems like covid broke the manipulator’s minds even more somehow and they all lashed out on everyone else.

After coming to understand more about myself and the manipulators around me, I began helping other people deal with manipulators in their lives. It depresses me that I was basically helping women deal with manipulative men because men refused to listen to me about other manipulative men.

I’m glad I was able to help the people I did help but I really wish I didn’t have to do such a thing.