- Get outside of light pollution enough to see the milky way at night
- Watch the sun come up over the mountains from the mesa on the other side of *the bridge* over the Rio Grande outside of Taos.
- Microscope looking at pretty much anything
(Signing off of this npub for good, but had to reply here.)

The cheese still exists, but they don't distribute it like they did when I got mine.

I found this, out of curiosity:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/government-cheese

TL;DR; It is a combined logical data and material flow. I have a simple text format to enter the maps. It is useful for tactical response to crises.

I give a video tour of the features here:
https://youtu.be/CBLBxvPVU2w

Nocoiners drink Hell Oi

In my really poor days... around the time I dumpstered government cheese*, I would burn some barley under the broiler (for flavor only), add cane sugar to it, boil it to get rid of any weird beasties, let it cool, and add bread yeast. I'd ferment it a plastic bucket and when done transfer to 40oz bottles. I always named my brews. I had two batches of this. The first one we called "Oi", the second one we called "Hell Oi". No sulfites!!

*I got my allotment of government cheese (it is a US thing... you used to be able to get 5 pound blocks of cheese like Velveeta just for waiting in line, along with bags of white rice) for free. But, my neighbors did the same thing, but they couldn't stand the film on the cheese when you toasted it, so they just tossed theirs. I got an extra 10 pounds of cheese that way. It won't go bad (neither will Hell Oi).

Have you ever used rsync with encfs? I found that combo fits quite a few use cases for backups w/ encryption. Personally, I only use that locally. I don't sync to cloud services with encfs, but just getting on to another local drive on the LAN via cron is great.

Everything I need to save, including all of my work, fits on less than 25GB. Oh... I have 2TB cloud storage and drives like yours that I replicate to for regular archives. Remember, I stick my work on Floppy PNGs. My 1000 page journal (if in PDF form) fits on about 44MB, which is roughly the same as all of my other work put together. 10GB of family pictures and such. 25GB is also my goal. I'll send them out at some point.

I use M-Disc

The work that Bateson and Mead did as part of WWII and into the cold war along these lines is both interesting and under-reported. Benjamin Breen's book, from my perspective, holds back on direct associations and conclusions, but they are there. He even nudges into Harvard/Kaczynski... those folks were all related at dark corners. I know we are at 1000X, now.

I use GPT4All with a Mistral OpenOrca model. I prompt using text posts and ideas. I want to see if the base cultural context for cross-domain ideas match what I'm trying to say. It works fairly well. There are even some valid corrections that I didn't think of sometimes. I don't have a decent GPU on my main GNU/Linux machine. GPT4All runs on just CPU fine. I do have a macOS mini M1 that is much faster, as GPT4All will use the hardware, but I usually don't take the time to switch the KVM (I currently just it for testing software builds). I've never used standalone cloud AI. I don't care about it for a variety of reasons. One benefit to GPT4All is you can point it at your local documents as well to tailor the model.