Good morning Fedi friends and happy Sunday

[elena@aseachange.com]

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Sunday!

I just arrived in Italy at my parents' 🥳​

I literally let out a happy scream when I saw that my monitor is connected to an HDMI switch (I couldn't remember if I had taken it to Paris or I had one here). This means I can seamlessly switch between my Mac Mini and my Raspberry Pi 5 - YAY.

I'm currently in the process of backing up my photo and video libraries to my local drive... I'm pretty adamant in having 4 copies of my data... with 2 off-site (one at my parents' and one at my in-laws') 💁‍♀️​

And no I don't trust cloud backups with my media because... the cloud is someone else's computer... and my full photo/video library is 2.2 TB 😅​

Anyway, backup now and pizza with the family soon 🍕​

Have a great day everyone!

P.S.: edit/update: I've been meaning to give a shout-out to my favorite software EVER for peace of mind: #CarbonCopyCloner on Mac. It's so smart, evaluating changes on drives and only copying new things

[geoffreya@mastodon.social]

@elena hello, I your self hosted gts publishing to mastodon ? How do you do that ?

[romanbuchta@layer8.space]

@elena Ohh ... Italia 🇮🇹 .. Parlo l'italiano un po'. Spero che, io abbia un'altro vacanza in Italia l'anno prossimo. Vorrei migliorare la mia prunoncia.
Belle gionate per vacanze in patria!

Same here ... the storage of all my backups only on my own disks!💾

[elena@aseachange.com]

@romanbuchta bravissimo x l'italiano :)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@geoffreyA Hi Geoffrey. I'm not sure I understand the question. The Fediverse has built in interoperability so you can follow Pixelfed, PeerTube, GoToSocial, MissKey - and even Lemmy - accounts on Mastodon... they're all based on the ActivityPub protocol...

[geoffreya@mastodon.social]

@elena yes my question was not clear... I need to try gts on my own to see it working. I want to host all my content.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@geoffreyA with SLURP tool you could move your entire post archive from Mastodon to GtS (in addition to your followers and follow lists obviously). @joel has written about it: https://tumfatig.net/2025/gotosocial-adventures-migrate-from-mastodon/

[jesgar@mamot.fr]

@elena Just software advice for your Linux travel: Beyond Compare. Carbon Copy Cloner is only for Mac, but Beyond Compare is multiplatform and allows the same kind of changes evaluation as CCC (However, does not make a bootable copy, but I think this is more related to MacOS features).

[elena@aseachange.com]

@jesgar wonderful to hear, thank you for the brilliant advice (I had never heard of it) 🙏