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I’ve once again started the process of installing and setting up Nextcloud on one of my servers. It occurs to me that my Nextcloud instances always die a slow death. Something about that piece of software, I think, sort of just falls apart over time. This time I’m attempting to future proof it a little bit more than the previous times, but honestly I fully expect it to go about the same as usual. Then again, historically I have installed all kinds of plugins (or apps) and was running it on fairly low powered hardware. Setting it up on some decently powerful hardware on this go around though. I’ll also try to be more conservative with the app installs as well.

I might actually set up two separate instances and federate them together. Perhaps if I maintain multiple servers they’ll survive a bit longer? Or I’ll just be creating twice the amount of tinkering and maintenance for myself.

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Admin

I’m a pretty big fan of The Dresden Files series of novels and a good friend of mine gave me a signed edition of the first book recently for my birthday / Christmas gift. I have never had a signed book of any kind and I love it!

We just recently finished watching the entirety of Star Trek: Voyager and it was so much better than I remembered it being. I think the reason why I was thinking it was the weakest of Treks was simply my age at the time it started airing, that and my various life events going on in 1998 (it was a very rough year for me and my family and I was 17). I had remembered it as being really weird and off-the-wall (which in some cases, it is. Threshold...), but it was nowhere near as wacky as I had thought it was. It was even clever and relavant to our modern times in a lot of ways.

Even “Threshold” was a fairly decent episode! Actually I really enjoyed it and found it to be a fun one indeed. The only real goofiness to it was the whole turned-into-lizards thing, but it was sort of an uncertainty principle thing, so fuck it, might as well be lizards, right?

Next up? The Next Generation. That is gonna be a much tougher one to watch, I think. I know the first couple of seasons have some seriously crumby episodes.

#StarTrek #Voyager #TNG #Entertainment

I think I want to get into podcasting again and either do some sort of short form fiction or perhaps a short music review type show. If the latter, I was thinking maybe a single song per episode with a couple of minutes of discussion about the song itself. Not necessarily critique though, maybe a little looser than that, I think I’d keep it more positive and highlight the things I like. Although I have to admit, doing that type of show would be a little out of character for me since I’ve always been uncomfortable playing music for people.

I have spent the majority of my adult life trying to keep my mind from wandering, to keep control of a scattered mind, but recently it seems like I no longer am able to actually let it just go. I seem to have forgotten how to let my thoughts flow freely wherever they may go. I didn’t realize I was doing it, but I think I managed to put my consciousness in a box that feels smaller every day.