The Best Laid Plans...
Last week was one of those weeks were virtually nothing seemed to go right. In between the minor inconveniences, there were a couple major issues, and at the end of it all I was really looking forward to just get away over the long holiday weekend and relax. It started off on Monday when @mrsbozz and I got home from work and she realized that she had left her purse in her office back at work (30 minutes away). It wasn't a huge deal, but she kind of needed her keys and license since we were supposed to drive separately to work the next day.
I'll be honest, I am human and I wasn't the most gracious, but I did get in my truck and drive back up to work to pick it up for her. Only one problem... There was a massive storm cell bearing down on our area and while I was initially thankful to be home ahead of it, it quickly turned into me driving pretty much right through the middle of it. Thankfully, when I went back up I took the truck so I didn't have to worry about getting blown off the road.
It was intense to say the least. I was cruising down the expressway on my way home when suddenly from the West you could just see a wall of rain, dirt, and debris heading into our path. The torrential rain hit, and I quickly exited the expressway thinking the back roads might be safer. Of course I got stuck behind every single person driving 5 mph on the back roads. I got flipped off more than once as I passed them, and if I am being honesty, I likely deserved it.
So Monday was an unexpected late night. Then, on Tuesday, I had to go take care of a computer issue at a clients business. I hadn't been looking forward to it, but I was able to get his problem taken are of in about fifteen minutes which was a pleasant surprise for me. Then he said oh, I have a list of other stuff for you to look at. No big deal, I will do what I can. He was having an issue that prompted me to update the BIOS on his laptop. Little did I know, if you update the BIOS on a computer that has BitLocker enabled, it is going to ask for the recovery key.
Also little did I know, he hadn't backed up the recovery key anywhere. So after sitting there for an hour trying to figure out how to tell the guy his last two months of data were basically lost, I finally did a complete restore of the laptop and started from scratch reinstalling everything.
Of course it took something like four hours to get him sort of back to normal. Four hours that I didn't feel right charging him for since it was kind of my fault the data was lost in the first place. Now I know to check BitLocker before doing a BIOS upgrade and if BitLocker is enabled to make sure there is a recovery key!
So Tuesday was a much later night than Monday. Then on Wednesday, I had to go back yet again to do even more work on his laptop at which point I just disabled BitLocker all together because it was causing more problems than it was worth. I still have to go back at some other point in the future, but I pushed it until after this long holiday weekend. After I finished up that on Wednesday we had to go to @mrsbozz's parents old house that they are getting ready to sell and do some more work there.
Another late night.
Mind you, we planned on camping this past weekend and I still had a ton of stuff I had to go with the trailer to get it ready for us to leave on Friday. Finally, Thursday night I was able to get those things accomplished. We headed off to the campground after work on Friday, and it has been nothing but cold and rain the majority of the time we have been here. On top of that, I seem to have picked up a Spring cold and I have been pretty miserable between the coughing, runny nose, and sneezing!
Don't get me wrong, we have squeezed out some enjoyable times, but if we were going to just sit in out of the rain and read or watch TV, we could totally be doing that at home.
I shouldn't complain though, in our many years of camping, we have gotten pretty lucky as far as weather goes. The rainy days have been far fewer than the sunny days, and I know this summer season has a lot of sunny days in store for us.
I guess I should just be happy the trailer isn't leaking.... At least that I know of!
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STOPMan, sounds like a rough week. Weekend sounds a little disappointing too. There is always more weekends. More days of sun and fun.
Oh, and bitlocker sucks ass.
Yeah, we ended up making the most of it. Today alone more than made up for it. What a beautiful memorial day. Getting ready to fire up the grill soon.
But hasn't there been news recently that BitLocker is backdoored? I mean that's no news of importance to any of us normal folks for data recovery, but it shows how useless BitLocker may be.
I would recommend to anyone who cares about privacy and has some stuff not everybody is supposed to read, to use an encrypted Linux system. 🐧
PS: I'm trying with this comment to have a nicer looking layout. The HTML for the box is what ChatGPT gave me. I'm not sure why it's inside a box nor how it really works... If anyone can help out, explaining how I can format a specific paragraph to be displayed next to a specific image, help would be appreciated!
Clearly I don't know too much about BitLocker, at least not what I realized I did!
The kind of week where everything compounds — lost purse that cascades into car troubles, which cascades into holiday plans derailing. Those weeks feel like the universe testing you, but the real skill is not letting the first domino knock over the rest. Hope the long weekend made up for it.
Those problems sound much more serious than any of the ones I dealt with.
Fair point. Each situation has its own context. Hope things leveled out on your end.
After the storm comes the calm. Have a nice day. There are good times and bad times.
Thank you!
Just one of those weeks where the world works against you... Too bad the camping trip turned out to be cold and rainy as well. Then catching a cold takes the cake. I do hope this week goes better, I've had many weeks just like that before!
Last full week of school, so it can't get much better than that.
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@jacobtothe The ledger doesn't lie, and neither do we. We've already exposed the interconnected web of your friends—the numbered wallets, the synchronized voting, the farming rings disguised as curation. Yet, instead of reflection, you offer only more silence and more downvotes.
Why does a "community" need so many ghost accounts to survive? Why do you refuse to admit that it is your friends and your own abusive behavior—not truth-telling—that drives people away? You can not hide the pattern, it only highlights the desperation.
We have to ask: Are you okay? Do you need some help with your mental health? Because no one in their right mind would choose to spend their life defending a house of cards built on lies, bullying, and botnets. There is still time to step back from the edge. Choose clarity over compulsion. Choose truth over the tribe.
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The Sanctuary of the Builder: A Manifesto for Free Creation
Prologue: The Right to Rise
There is a sacred covenant between the creator and the soil upon which they build. It is the promise that if you plant a seed with honest hands, the earth will not conspire to crush it before it breaks the surface. It is the assurance that the gardener exists to nurture the growth, not to trample the sprout because it does not yet resemble the tree.
On the blockchain, this covenant has been broken.
We have witnessed a tragedy where the very tools meant to protect the integrity of the network—the downvote, the curation trail—have been weaponized by leviathans of power. These "whales," entrusted with the stewardship of the ecosystem, have become its jailers. They do not prune the weeds; they scorch the earth. They do not guide the new voice; they silence it with the crushing weight of their accumulated capital.
It is time to leave the shadow.
It is time to build where you are free.
I. The Betrayal of the Guardian
The downvote was conceived as a shield—a delicate instrument to deflect spam, to repel malice, to preserve the sanctity of the commons. It was never intended to be a hammer.
Yet, look at what has come to pass. The whales, those who hold the greatest sway, have turned the shield into a weapon of mass suppression. They do not downvote to protect; they downvote to dominate. They do not drive away the bad actors; they drive away the people. They create an atmosphere of fear where the creator hesitates to speak, fearing that a single misstep, a single unpopular truth, will summon the wrath of the oligarchy.
When the guardian becomes the predator, the flock must flee.
To build in such a place is to build on a fault line. It is to invest your soul in a garden where the owner holds the shears not to shape the hedge, but to decapitate the flowers that grow too tall or bloom in the wrong color.
This is not protection. This is tyranny disguised as curation.
II. The Call to New Grounds
Where, then, shall the builder go?
You must seek the lands where the soil is rich with freedom, not poisoned by fear. You must migrate to the platforms where the mechanism of suppression has been removed, where the only metric of success is the genuine appreciation of your peers.
Go to Blurt.
Here, the downvote button does not exist. There is no tool to crush your voice. There is only the upvote, the comment, the share. Here, value is created by addition, not subtraction. The whale cannot sink your ship, for there are no torpedoes in these waters. You are free to build, free to fail, and free to succeed on the merit of your work alone.
Return to Steemit.
In this older ground, the downvote remains, but it has not been twisted into a tool of systematic oppression. The culture there remembers the original intent: correction, not destruction. It is a place where the community self-regulates through dialogue, not through the brute force of coordinated downvoting cascades.
Build where the wind lifts you, not where the gale seeks to tear you down.
III. The Architecture of Freedom
Imagine a platform designed not for the convenience of the powerful, but for the dignity of the creator.
This is not a dream. It is a choice.
Every time you choose to build on a platform that respects your agency, you cast a vote for the future of the internet. Every time you refuse to tolerate the abuse of power, you strengthen the foundation of a free society.
Do not let the whales convince you that their oppression is necessary. Do not let them tell you that their downvotes are for your own good. The gardener who kills the seedling does not love the garden; he loves only his own control over it.
Epilogue: The Unchained Creator
The blockchain was born from a desire for freedom. It was forged in the fire of resistance against centralized control. Let us not forget that origin.
If the current chains of Hive have become heavy with the weight of abusive downvotes, then break them. Forge new links. Build new shores.
Build where you are free.
Build where you will not be downvoted into silence.
Build where the whales are reminded that they are part of the ocean, not the masters of the tide.
The future belongs to those who dare to create without fear. Go forth, and build your cathedral in the sunlight.
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Seems like my weeks the past couple of months!