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Cake day: November 3rd, 2023

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  • Since you’re already on btrfs it’s probably better to actually use the features it has to expand your existing filesystem to cover both drives.

    But if you just want to mount it somewhere and not worry about figuring out anything complicated, what I did is mount my big new cheap disk at /home/bigdisk and then have symlinks pointing to it such as ~/Videos -> /home/bigdisk/Videos.










  • The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

    $ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 
    
    real    0m9.045s
    user    0m8.839s
    sys     0m0.450s
    
    $ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                
    
    real    0m4.903s
    user    0m4.677s
    sys     0m0.510s
    

    Nice! Presumably it’d be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I’ve already used up a hundred times more time than I’ll ever save as a result of it.


  • Get yourself a good nicotine vape rig. The kind that has a big tank so it’ll last all day and you can use whichever flavoured vape liquid you like best. Switch to that 100% of the time, right away, no exceptions. Don’t worry about how to quit vaping until you’ve gone without smoking for at least a few months.

    It’ll be hard, but not nearly as bad as it is if you try to quit both smoking and nicotine at the same time.