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Doing heavy barbell squats and deadlifts worked wonders for me. Three sets of five (with appropriate warmup of course).

Eliminated my back pain and led to a bunch of other non obvious life improvements.

You can always register the domain for 10 years, and then just keep renewing it every year so you always maintain 9 to 10 years of future paid registration.

Like you, this hasn’t been a problem for me.

GitHub Pages are still free but commercial websites are forbidden.

> What is the use case for music generation models?

New types of electronic instruments.

We’ve been able to use analog circuits, digital logic, and then computers to generate sounds for decades… aka synthesizers.

I would love to see synthesizers which use music generation models under the hood to create new sounds. And / or new interfaces to create different types of instruments.

There’s a lot to explore here, in the same way there was (is) lots of exploration of electronic music starting I suppose with the Theremin in the 1930s.

> I just can not fathom the level of greed I saw hiding behind people’s eyes at Google as they try to build empires.

That’s very well written. Poetic even.

> I’m in Silicon Valley to learn about and work with computers.

The industry used to be more like that. Never entirely, of course - Microsoft made a bunch of people millionaires in the 80s and 90s, turned some heads. A few others did too.

Even in the early 2000s almost none of the MBA types were going to the Bay Area after graduating.

But things changed. It basically had to. There were too many companies making too much money - and making their employees too wealthy - for people to ignore it. Zero interest rates added fuel to the fire and everyone who could jumped on it. Late stage capitalism, everyone gotta get theirs. And here we are.

> I have realized I spend a lot of time trying to keep managing projects rather than doing the project itself.

> Do you use JIRA for life, or Linear, or Obsidian, or pen and paper? Yearly goals, monthly+weekly breakdowns?

The tool doesn’t matter. Just pick a simple one and be done with it. The reminders app built into your phone works great. You sure as hell don’t need JIRA to manage your life.

You are procrastinating doing the work. Sit down, make a list of everything you have to do. Then pick one thing and do it. Then, choose the next thing to do and do that. Rinse and repeat.

> Any ideas of what I could do to try to solve my issue?

What specific problems are you having?

I don’t know. I’ve been using this setup for 7+ years, daily backups, and never had this problem.

I have about 80 GB or so of data being backed up. The daily backups upload only new files plus files that are changed. The largest monthly AWS bill I ever got was $6. The next month it went back to the usual ~$2 range.

Local vs cloud backups each have their own tradeoffs. I use both.

For cloud backup I use Arq backing up daily to AWS (no affiliation with Arq other than being a happy customer). You get client side encryption and the daily backup directly mitigates your concern, if there’s an AWS account issue you will know immediately and can fix it. For my storage amount and use it only costs about $2 a month.