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The Big Oopsie

CRASH! -- Aaaaaargh!!!

About a month ago (I think) Oracle's VirtualBox crashed on me. "Fine.", I thought. "Just boot the VM up again.", I thought. No dice. "Try again, maybe it's just bugged out." Nothing. It occurred to me, I was checking Hard Drive settings when it blew up. Preoccupation arises. "Rebooting the host machine will fix that for sure." ... Nope. Anxiety kicks in. "Ok, hang on. There must be way..."

A long time was spent making and remaking VMs, exhausting search engines, trying to recover anything I could, but to no avail. All I had was old versions of a few pages. Panic slowly creeps in. "Did I just lose ALL my shit?"

Grief. How could I be such an idiot? I did *not* had a proper backup. WHY?!

A day later, acceptance. I could make everything from scratch, afterall. It would suck, but it could be done. Life went on for a couple of days when I remembered something. I use kennedy's search engine. There was something else, there. Hope.

Kennedy's Delorean Time Machine

I could not believe how lucky I was. Pretty much *everything* was there. It was beautiful. In not too long I had everything but my last post and half a draft back -- On a proper backup this time, one that I'll take care and keep updated. All that was left to do was get the server back up. So not too bad, huh?

Connection Reestablished

Fresh VoidPi

It took a while. Longer than I'd like to admit, but we're here. Back on track! It was always the plan to move the server from a VM on a personal machine to a proper "on-it's-own" system. The "Big Oopsie" was a push to advance in that front and I scrambled to get me a Pi. I ended up landing on a RaspberryPi 3B+ running Void Linux. I plan on making a post about the process and my experience with Void on my personal capsule soon.

Task Pile-Up

It's good to have my piece of geminispace back online. However, with that comes the work of ironing-out some drafts that piled up on the way, but hopefully I'll be able to me more active. At least for a bit.

> May the void always be fruitful, spacer.

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