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Traveling
September 18th, 2017
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I'll be going on a trip for a couple of days, so I'll require some media to
help occupy my non-social time. I don't tend to want to engage too much in
conversation on planes unless absolutely necessary. Immediately donning
headphones is my M.O. for avoiding unwelcome social interactions with random
people I don't know, particularly the ones who sit down and wear me out with
friendliness. I'm friendly and polite, but introverts *need* their space.

Netflix supporting downloadable content sounds like a potential boon (this will
have been my first time flying since that feature was introduced, so I have no
idea yet if it will actually work as well as I'm hoping). I have several series
currently in progress. A friend recently shared Tony Jaa's Ong Bok[1] films
with me, and they'll make my shortlist as well. Gritty Thai martial arts films
complement plane travel, right?

Backups, cont'd.
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Regarding backups, my sincere thanks to tomasino and wlsn for responding with
some helpful suggestions. Wlsn pointed me towards Tarsnap[2] which looks very
promising, and tomasino mentioned using a variety of services including
Dropbox, Nextcloud, and Spideroak, the latter of which is currently marketing
very hard to us soon-to-be-former users of Crashplan.

I clearly need to get my house in order in terms of data organisation. It is
becoming obvious that not all of my data falls into a single category, and that
it will be preferable to treat some of it as the precious private IP that it
is, while being (rightfully) more cavalier about other data. Some is ephemeral
or easily replaced, while some is irreplaceable.

Unfortunately, I've been in the habit of backing up *everything*, which isn't
an objectively bad thing in itself, but treating my data as a huge homogenous
blob limits my choices from both an economic and an ease-of-use point of view.

I'll hopefully get a little closer to narrowing down my storage and syncing
solution during my trip as well, when I have some time to think during idle
spells. It is a business trip, and I plan to be productive during my downtime,
even when I'm not on the clock.


[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Bak_2
[2]: https://www.tarsnap.com/