Category: 00 – TOASTERBOTNET BLOG

I’m kinda feeling like writing a blog post.

Well that rarely happens…

About 2 years ago I decided to simplify and optimze my life
and thought about how to get rid of my giant pile of unsorted documents.
I took my phone, scanned every piece of paper and destroyed nearly everything.
It took me about 6 months to get rid of all the paperwork and documents.
The only thing remaining was very thin pile of paper with important documents.
I didn’t have to think much about storage and backup since I already got a Synology.
So I just access all my Documents through Synology Drive.
My Plan is to reduce Paperwork and get rid of Paper in general entirely and
as much as possible. I’m aware there are various tools out there that would be better suited
for a paperless office but I’m quite happy with the native Synology Apps,
like Notes, Drive and Calendar. It does everything I want and I have everything
in one place.
Additionally I opened an account with Caya, which is a Scan-Service for your physical Mail.
So basically I made sure that no paper would enter my appartment, while I was getting rid
of what was left.
If you have verything in the cloud and can sift through things on your phone,
you can do your Paperwork on the train or on the couch.
This has the positive effect that you can check off things as soon they arise.
I’m always on top of my todo-list.
In my opinion a scan service is worth the few extra bucks.
The only downside ist that, if you need the originals of somnething, it costs
you an extra 5 bucks to send it to your address. But that happens very rarely.
Seriously going full digital is so worth it.
10/10 would do again.

Synology is awesome …. here’s why…

The Blue Blinking LED of Death

So my Diskstation died yesterday. It went down a few times with no apparent reason and at the end was totally toast. I had the infamous Blue Blinking LED of Death. As a compulsive Datahoarder, I started to get nervous pretty quickly. I tried to get the thing working again with all sorts of tips from various forums and websites. No luck. After a couple of hours I gave up and realized this thing is absolutly borked. It’s a few years old and has no warranty anymore…

So I said fuck it… Ordered a new model with overnight express. There goes 400 Bucks.

Migration

I waited 24 hours and was eagerly awaiting dorbell. DING DONG. My new NAS was here. At this point I was expecting to waste at least half a day setting everything up again. I thought I had to do at least some configuration. Or importing a backup of some kind…. to my suprise that wasn’t case. I just plugged in my RAID Array and booted the thing. It asked me if I wanted to migrate and after that it rebooted for a couple of minutes. As soon as it was back online everything was there. Literally everything. Even the Videostation had all settings and thumbnails. The library didn’t need indexing. Every little thing was the same as before.

Now that’s what I call a seamless migration. 20 Minutes after the package delivery I’m sitting here and writing this post. Orilla is back online after 24 hours of outage and I’m back in the Datahoarding business. Very cool. It’s very satisfying when stuff just works.

Psychological Evolution

I have followup to my previous post. While the video was quite interesting I want to clarify that I advice to stay away from this guy if you want to do personal development.

EDIT: Serious talk for a second… Okay I watched some more videos of this guy and looked up spiral dynamics. Spiral Dynamics is interesting and a helpful model to understand people and their very diverse values. Of course you can’t take it literally but you can use it to understand people and value structures…. But I watched some more videos of this Leo guy. And while some of his videos are quite interesting. Some of them are very dangerous to the point where I actually believe he’s a malignant manipulator and hypnothizes people to fuel their ego. I can’t be sure but I have a strange feeling about him. So I think it’s better to stay away from this guy if you are looking to do personal development. Don’t get me wrong he seems to be a smart guy and has some insights which are quite helpful. But he contradicts himself a lot and some of his stuff make the impression that he’s more of a narcisstic cult leader. Remember …. The less you know the more you think you know and he seems to give easy answers to profound questions. Nothing is that simple and nobody is above manipulation. Just be carefull