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typing is not writing

for me at least 90% of the "writing" happens away from a keyboard

mainly in my head (on walks, in the shower, when I least expect it)

then on paper & pencil, writing words, phrases, drawing lines, rinse, repeat

my goal is to finish the conceptual thinking to a degree that when I sit down in front of a keyboard, it's mainly "downloading" from my brain

If I try to do the conceptual work at a keyboard it's torture

seriously though after I started getting up every single day without fail at 6:00 am, no matter what happened the day before, no matter what’s on my schedule today, ever since I have had no trouble whatsoever ever falling asleep. Usually by 9:30 pm I am feeling v sleepy and by 10 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes.

The only thing that modulates this is caffeine. No caffeine after 2:00 pm otherwise I may be up until 11:00 pm even midnight.

but even then, wake at 6:00 am the next day without fail, that was the magic bullet for me

all this stuff about bedtime routines, warm bath, soft lighting, etc, seems funny to me - like I said by 9:30 pm and certainly by 10:00 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes, I don’t need any enticements.

but

What I'm actually afraid of is some screw-up that ends up preventing me from accessing my cloud data. For example a billing screwup. Or a scan-for-prohibited-materials gone wrong. Or a login screwup. Or a straight-up attack from a bad actor. Or simply an infrastructure oops.

Presently I have one machine under my control that I have set so that Dropbox stores all data locally also, and I have tried to do the same with Apple iCloud (though I'm never sure with Apple what is actually happening) ... and then I run a cron job to backup those folders to a NAS onsite.

But I really like the idea of 100% of my data living on the cloud and a far smaller percentage "living" on my local machine at any one time ... especially when the cloud storage total starts getting large w.r.t the size of the HD on my local machine.

Is there some kind of service or program/app that will periodically suck down 100% of my cloud data and stick it on my NAS, without having to actually store 100% on my computer (the one doing the sucking) at any one time?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401769

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

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Though so much of my actual work now involves network access... whether that's referring to files on someone's OneDrive folder (my admin assistants, who are subject to my institution's obsession with Micro$oft, are constantly sending me links to files in a OneDrive folder) or looking up papers on Google Scholar or PubMed.

I guess what bugs me about modern MacOS and Windows operating systems is that one has no choice but for their computer to be constantly talking to who knows who on the internet, all the time... even if you login and just sit there and not run any internet-facing apps. I could log into my laptop, launch MS Turd, write a paper, and all the while my OS (and MS Turd) would be doing who knows what, at the mercy of who knows what security threats.

I know I could disable WiFi. For a while. Eventually my OS would start complaining.

I guess a linux-based OS in which I lock down network access to (for example) only a web browser. Then at least it's my own hand.

I am getting to the point with my Mac computers (Studio Ultra and MacBook Pro) that I dread when OS updates are on the horizon. I know there are new features that maybe could be useful. Maybe. But there are a giant turd of other features that I do not want. The OS slows down, bugs appear, etc etc etc.

I guess the solution is to choose a Linux distro and stick with it. I mean I know what I need to use my computers for and what I don’t.

The VR thing, avatars, AI, I want no part of it. Call me old fashioned but something I’ve learned over my years is that tech can be very inhuman/inhumane. (it also can be great of course, sometimes)

Anyway curious what other people’s thoughts are. I was once one of those kids/adults who would look forward to the latest updates, download and install immediately, etc but I am not that person any more.

PS I work in a field in which I can more or less decide for myself what tools I use.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324788

Points: 10

# Comments: 7

I know, welcome to the new internet. Apple sells me discounted access via their app because in doing so Apple can monetize my eyeballs. I hate it.

On the other hand, PTF (Pity The Fool) who tries to export these notes. I know some people have written exporters but of course, whenever Apple decides to change format, PTF.

I would like to change to a more portable format, e.g. markdown, but I am looking for a solution that syncs nicely across devices. Maybe iaWriter. Maybe just sublime text or even emacs and just put everything in a dropbox folder.