The re-mounting of my big HDD went well due to not needing the command line at all. After doing a bit more reading, a simple repairing of the File System was needed. The difference in my problem-solving skills with sleep vs no sleep is telling. I deleted the previous panic toot.
Everything is fine now because my brain was working better in the morning.
ROFL I do love Ubuntu because of its user-friendly nature; I need to take a chill pill and think before panicking.
I was up early again #today in order to travel into DC for the second day of three working in person on strategic $dayjob planning for the next 12 months of work.
I am hoping to be able to head home a little earlier than last night. I enjoyed the first day but not so much only seeing @kamikat briefly before leaving then just as briefly after returning before turning in.
I enjoyed meeting so many of my new coworkers in person. My social anxiety was present but manageable. I did not have time for a full sit this afternoon but was able to sneak in a round of qi gong that was almost as helpful.
The dinner and social outing after was more enjoyable than past similar activities thanks to my new, deeper equanimity.
ROFL, I had the pictures and documents I needed on my HDD. I made more work for myself than necessary! OneDrive has been emptied, and now I will only use Microsoft for the Xbox, Outlook accounts.
Microsoft is really wanting me to stay on OneDrive, as the zips I have attempted to download have been damaged several times now. This makes me more motivated to remove the majority of my data from their clutches. I've had to individually download each folder at this point, I will succeed at this task.
Yesterday after work I drove to East #finland with a rental car. (That was the first time I drove this year.) There was a car accident on the road, and a traffic jam. We got heavy rain.. I got lost once. Once the navigator said the road was blocked but it wasn't. But I did it and #today I saw my #parents. 😍 #AlzheimersSucks I haven't told you but my mother has #dementia now as well. #suomimastodon#roadtrip
Got most of my stuff from OneDrive in downloading process on my second huge hard drive. Next week, after paying my bills, I will move over to Proton Unlimited for all the perks. Realistically, I need 500G of cloud storage because I will consistently delete any backed up content which is out of date. Documents are really the only thing that I need to keep up to date in the future, I went cloud for most things. Like Apple Music, but I still have a hard copy of my music saved.
I will be purchasing an external SSD or HHD for my larger collections of media; likely a 4TB depending on the price. I may even get a larger drive, as one of my media folders is an eye-watering 1TB worth of digital media.
Might do some live streaming later once I'm done with laundry.
I'll be monitoring the import of my PeerTube transfer to a new instance since Diode.zone is asking people to find new ones. @DavBot was kind enough to allow me to transfer to his PeerTube instance. So I started doing that yesterday. I've only got one channel moved so far. I'll hit you all up with the url once it's all moved over.
I wouldn't normally do this but after two very bad experiences with Ed Napleton dealerships I wanted to make a PSA to people in the St. Louis, MO region:
Avoid Ed Napleton dealerships if you can. They are good at pulling a bait and switch, wasting a lot of your time in the process. With lots overflowing they are still trying to add a "pandemic market adjustment" of $2,000. I'd like to save people the time and frustration.