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A big part of Sam's advice here is not to get overwhelmed and anxious by the barrage of negative news. This advice wasn't timed for this particular point in time, but it couldn't be more apt. Indeed, I have been memorized by the train wreck of Trump's first weeks in office, and actually, I feel it's right not to look away. Nor to look away from the ongoing genocide in Gaza, or the war in Congo that is affecting families of people I know. On the other hand, it's true - I am suffering from information overload spending so much time on the computer reading stuff.

Sam's advice is get news from trusted sources - he suggests a few- and don't feel like you have to keep up with it everyday.

The primary source he suggests is The Conversation, in which journalists work with academic experts to produce a variety of articles on current events and developments in many fields. It is good...but let's see, I'm already getting daily to weekly newsletters from several sources, adding another might be counterproductive to the intent of this step?

I do daily peruse the headlines from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:C… as a RSS feed; it's very succinct, but alerts me to events happening in parts of the world I might not otherwise hear about.

In addition, I get a daily newsletter of local news from 'Town and County', a feed of mainly environmental Canadian news from The Narwhal (several articles a week, but I usually only look at the first paragraph), a weekly newsletter from Global Voices, and Good Sunday Morning, a weekly letter from Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May which is always very interesting. Now I've added a twice weekly digest from the Conversation Global. Then there's a couple weekly and various other sporadic newsletters related to my profession. Too much?

I'm tempering this by reminding myself I don't need to keep up with all the internet news on a daily basis, or keep checking them every hour as I am wont to do. I have them going to a feed reader (Inoreader) rather than cluttering up my email.

And then there's my two print hardcopy newsmagazines (one leftleaning but mainstream, one more radical) that I subscribe to, and more to the point, actually read - I'm proud of that. And once in awhile I listen to the Canada Broadcasting Corp. news on the radio

I realized I've got my news sources corralled quite well; the real problem for me is social media, even though I have been very selective with my social media sources including this lovely Friendica instance, it is an endless source of stimulation that can easily become too much, and this is where I really need to be more selective with my time. At least leave it until the end of the day.

How do you get your news and how do you feel about it?

I messed up with my previous Google Photos export and ended up with duplicate photos and garbage photos (screenshots, memes, etc) when all I want are my photos. This mess was already in my Hetzner-hosted Storage Share / Nextcloud and fixing this over the internet is tedious.

So, I thought I'd just re-request the archive again from Takeout, but I neglected to set the file piece size higher than 2GB. So, I could click through 220 individual download links, or I could request one more time with 50 GB file size.

I thought "I can script this. 220 files is fine."

I didn't consider how Google authenticates in ways that make downloading with curl more than a little bit of a pain in the ass. Rather than throw good time after bad, I just re-requested with 50GB chunks. Then a bit of local cleanup and re-upload the old files to Nextcloud.

I stopped sending photos to Google in April 2024, so there's no overlap between Google and my Nextcloud / Flickr archive. Cleaning up the files before April on Nextcloud should be straightforward. Once this is finally done, I should be able to stop paying Google for the extended storage space.

I moved my primary email over to fastmail around April as well, managed to get the foo.ca domain dns records properly setup for email there as well. It's super easy now to use any alias when sending email - something Google didn't really allow for.