My recent experience being tech support for family and trying to make available some sort of digitized preservation of family photos/history, has been impressing upon me the need to get away from Rube Goldberg systems that only I could possibly understand and modify. My primary filesystem being ZFS already makes having my stuff be accessible to others after my death a bit unrealistic. (Part of my strategy, will be physical redundancy with archival disks and HDDs, and even paper for text information)

I’m forever intrigued by the promises of nix, but I have finally accepted that I am not the target audience for what they have built. The nix language is fundamentally at odds with general purpose usability. Even using the package manger on other distros is fraught with gotchas.

On an off topic note, I find it fascinating how both my father and grandfather, who are/were quite technically competent, seem to become increasingly and possibly willfully helpless about computers as they get older. I find myself wondering if at some point I will also experience exhaustion of whatever internal energy is needed to fuel technical fluency.