Windy city
@pheonix@hachyderm.io
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp: diana penty
hachyderm.io
Windy city
@pheonix@hachyderm.io
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp: diana penty
hachyderm.io
@pheonix@hachyderm.io
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Apr 12, 2026
Is this something IT people deal with regularly? Or is this an outlier? 🤔
#askfedi #sysadmin #it #technology #email #techsupport #linux #windows
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Dima
@dima@dol.social
A person the world could do without. Coding since 2007. IT lover. Cyborg. 30. Addicted to #Debian, #DevOps, and new #tech toys. Fond of moody #art, #medicine, and #death studies. #php #symfony #development #sysadmin #linux #docker #kubernetes
dol.social
@dima@dol.social
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Apr 10, 2026
I finally defeated the final boss of my backup migration to Proton Drive.
For months, I have been trying to sync my 500GB media library (around 80k files) to Proton Drive. Every single time, the sync crashed with the exact same error: "1 item failed to backup." The only clue I had was a blurry thumbnail named "Asset 1". No date, no metadata, no search tags.
I was so frustrated that I even asked Proton support to completely wipe my encrypted volume so I could start from scratch. The result was exactly the same.
Finding this file became a manual protocol. I spent months periodically scanning through thousands of files just looking for a visual match to that tiny thumbnail. I finally found it today. It was an old scan from 2017. It was completely frozen - uneditable, unindexed, and gave an error when I tried to export it from my phone.
I managed to track it down via macOS. When I forced an export there, the truth came out: it was not an image at all. It was a .pdf file somehow saved into the photo gallery, and it was silently breaking the entire upload queue.
Removing it fixed everything. The sync is finally 100% complete. The relief of finally closing this mental background process is unmatched.
#ProtonDrive #SelfHosted #DataHoarder #TechSupport #Backup #TechPhilosophy #DataMigration #Fediverse
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Josh (open until closed again)
@josh@hactivedirectory.com
Let me tell you, I didn’t know what closed was until Trump closed my strait. Never knew a strait could get so closed. #pittsburgh Pro #democracy, #gay, #tech enthusiast #bro. Soft spot for #law! Death to #facebook! #totk (and all things #zelda) and #kingdomhearts are my happy place. #fediverse forever!! Proud husbro to @mrburns and doggo-dad to @harleythedoggo.
hactivedirectory.com
Josh (open until closed again)
@josh@hactivedirectory.com
Let me tell you, I didn’t know what closed was until Trump closed my strait. Never knew a strait could get so closed. #pittsburgh Pro #democracy, #gay, #tech enthusiast #bro. Soft spot for #law! Death to #facebook! #totk (and all things #zelda) and #kingdomhearts are my happy place. #fediverse forever!! Proud husbro to @mrburns and doggo-dad to @harleythedoggo.
hactivedirectory.com
@josh@hactivedirectory.com
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Apr 03, 2026
Me: Hello hi yes I have evidence that your system is not working.
Support: Interesting, could you please provide evidence of something else entirely?
Me: Er, uh, I mean sure, maybe? Did... I think you misunderstood yourself?
#techsupport #it #tech #infosci #infotech
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My Actual Brain
@my_actual_brain@fosstodon.org
I am a privacy advocate and am a believer in FOSS. I will post about these things as well as link to my pixelfed account when I upload new pictures. My other interests are science, technology, gaming, and other nerdy stuff. I especially love Star Trek I am an American who lives in the Philippines.
fosstodon.org
My Actual Brain
@my_actual_brain@fosstodon.org
I am a privacy advocate and am a believer in FOSS. I will post about these things as well as link to my pixelfed account when I upload new pictures. My other interests are science, technology, gaming, and other nerdy stuff. I especially love Star Trek I am an American who lives in the Philippines.
fosstodon.org
@my_actual_brain@fosstodon.org
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Feb 26, 2026
If I am all in on the Apple ecosystem, is there any reason to keep using Firefox over Safari?
I’m going to combine my personal and work user account (self-employed) and I was thinking of using Firefox for work and Safari for personal to keep certain things seperate.
Is this a dumb way to handle what I am doing?
#apple #firefox #TechSupport #foss
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