/me is listening to “I Can’t Be” by Sally Dige

Musing with three types of backup systems on my old Macbook: Arq, Borg and Kopia. I was able to mount every backup folder correctly. Now I just need to put the years end-to-end!

With that damn machine crash last week, I’m in the process of retagging my music library (after re-downloading some albums from YT for the second time), and soon everything should be ready to join my iTunes library, neglected since 2016. The last title I bought from Apple was the Glenn Gould album, BTW.

Currently rebuilding my iTunes library. Back in 2016 it wasn’t the time to switch to Apple Music and TV. I’m on an unsupported laptop and OS right now, but it feels so good. Yet, congrats to Apple because I can retrieve all my data in just two or three clicks. #apple

I’m not in the mood of writing a full blog post to summarize my recent comeback to OS X. It’s still OS X on my machine, but I know it evolved as something else since 2018. I don’t know if I’m ready to buy a new Macbook with the accompagnying OS. I liked and I still like Mojave so much. Yet it was pretty painful to resurrect this laptop: Homebrew has no “bottles” for oldy software, which means I had to recompile everything from scratch for 60% of the software I reinstalled. I got into trouble with GPG, GitHub https auth, zsh misbehaving on OS X for no reason, minor annoyances with the Linux -> OS X switch, and so on. Finally, I’m close to the end of the migration process. It took me 5 full days! And I had to somehow relearn macOS shorcuts. Muscle memory helped in most cases, but still… So long, Apple #apple

TIL that TERM=xtermm on Darwin behaves like TERM=xterm-mono on Linux. That was helpful to force Neomutt or Cmus to use mono color by default. Moreover, if you use TERM=vt100 for Neomutt, it behaves more smoothly when fetching new mail with mbsync. #apple

I’ve spent a few more or less pleasant days, long ones in any case, reconfiguring my old 12-inch macbook. Guess what about my Dell laptop and my fresh configuration of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: the power supply blew up and the SSD along with it. Now everything seems workable (at the very best, for a 6-year old OS). More to come in a blog post later.

/me is listening to “Love Hides” by The Doors

Apparently, they will soon get a new home!

The Beauty of $\LaTeX$: Some of the crap that has kept me from using MS Word for years. Now I’m too old and remain a happy $\TeX$er for the days ahead. Fun thing: we did the same MSc (which was called a DEA at that time in France) one year apart!