I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

This makes so much sense hahaha.

Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p

Mmm MM!

Sandwiches is a good hyper focus. <3

I think they meant “reference number” like some sort of “remember this code if anything goes wrong or we won’t refund you” to return a product or something lol.

I think this is a major issue with such things though. There’s so much paper mail especially where it says “keep for your records” but it’s like… between some fuzzy limbo of necessity and garbage.

…so it either gets scanned to PaperlessNGX or gets stuffed in a “I want this stupid paper off my desk and I’m not sure if I should keep it” box that I’ll go through when it’s full. Lol

I’m self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason,

Oh my gosh what is this.

I want it.

This is going to end up an enormous chunk of my server space isn’t it. :3

I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser

I think this is just a side effect of how mobile browsers seem to work. Every quick little lookup I do is in its own tab, and I close the browser instead of the tab when I’m done, so if you’re like me, it builds up to an absurdly high number very fast.

If I haven’t gone back through that list in like a month I just take a deep breath and hit “close all tabs”.

I’m gonna try this Karakeep though. I’ve tried traditional bookmarks in Firefox and…I never actually reference them. Lol

Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key

…h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*

*Before 98 came out? Lol

Those are hilarious examples!

EDIT: Okay clearly the cat alcohol story is already infamous and is recounted much better about a dozen times in this very thread. XD

Also don’t forget players discovering tons of dead cats, apparently from alcohol poisoning.

If I recall correctly, their fur absorbed liquids. The cats walked in booze. Each paw counted erroneously as a full mug of beer absorbed. When the cats cleaned themselves, they drunk themselves to death.

Game is absolutely bonkers wild and a gem of emergent mechanics.

Aww yeah, this is Tumbleweed life. :D

“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

– The 90’s, Probably.

Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol

That is RAD! Thank you for sharing this! This would be a really cool emblem for a division of Starfleet or something. :D

Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.

Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

…for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…‘Mancy’?” ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

…and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

This thread has some bangers. Thanks for sharing!!!

I really like this “supporter DLC” model. And it legitimately warms my heart to see a lot of people saying they go out of their way to support indies this way.

That is how gaming should be. <3

Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

…but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

Hey now, garbage companies actually do something productive for society. :p

However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn’t particularly bother me, but it’s pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

I also blame the Uni for not advertising that it would be required for the coursework.

Just like Steam now says "REQUIRES KERNEL LEVEL ANTICHEAT" like a big ugly Surgeon General’s warning, I think college courses should say stuff like this too.

Along with “REQUIRES INVASIVE KERNEL LEVEL REMOTE ACCESS MALWARE BROWSER TO TAKE EXAMS”