You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.

It’s even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.

I figure the most bang for my buck right now is to set up off-site backups to a cloud provider.

If you don’t have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can’t afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.

Then I started reading about backing up databases

Go read the instructions for your database in particular. They are completely different from each other. Ignore generic instructions.

now I’m configuring a docker-db-backup container

What is perfectly fine. But I’d first look how this interferes with the budget you talked about earlier and if it wouldn’t be better to keep things simpler and put the money on data replication.

Either way, if your budget is low, I’d focus a lot on making sure you have the data when you need to restore, and less on streamlining the restore procedure. (That seems to be the direction you are going, so yeah, I’d say it’s good.) Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.

You know, violence is absolutely not acceptable until the point where society safety is determined by a dictatorship and the arguments aren’t on level of ideas anymore.

…

I suspect the US is beyond that point by now.

liberal

You are the 3rd person to use this word on this page. Each one with a completely different meaning. From “heavily Conservative (US style conservative)” to “lightly socialist”.

And yet, nobody used it with a “person that don’t want to stop other people doing things that don’t impact them” meaning.

The EU doesn’t want to be at war with Russia.

Russia also should really not want to be at war with the EU, but as you noticed, they don’t seem to care much about what they should do. If they fuck around enough, they may find out, but they are betting they won’t.

You expect people to take their money from stocks and put into what exactly?

Putting it in “someplace safe like our pockets” is neither safe, nor something people can do in large numbers. They can put it in bank accounts in large numbers, how safer than stocks do you think those are?

Makes me wonder if the pinterest numbers are from queries with “-pinterest”.

What does “done” mean to you, and how possibly can it be final?

That headline needs some comas, dashes, or whatever can group those words.

Well, maybe not making everything with any set amount of lighting is better…

Does he never turn back into energy and flow back into the rings? I always assumed he just does that, but I’m not sure what is actually on those cartoons anymore.

Many people on lemmy has some ideology that either consider others insufferable, or is considered insufferable by most people.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t organize something on social media, you just need one with freedom of expression (so, no overseeing algorithm), and a clique of people capable of organizing themselves. It may even be possible to get that here.

Mint fixes a lot of the problems with Ubuntu.

It will still break given enough time. But in my experience, it mostly works when recently installed. (I still don’t use it, but it’s better.)

Linux is clearly inferior to Linux. Have you tried Linux? It beats Linux in every single dimension!

Honestly, it has been working perfectly fine to me for a couple of decades. With games and everything. But that’s not the same Linux that everybody uses. Each person that installs it lives in a different universe from everybody else.

But anyway, if we could just stop the Ubuntu propaganda and avoid people starting with that piece of shit, a lot of the problems would disappear.

I always though it was amusing that many communities would only let new users post if they already had enough upvoted posts…

If you do it sitewise, you end up with the modern Stack Overflow!

Keep in mind that Greenland and Canada are both members of NATO, and thus the US would be forced to intervene…

Oh, well…

You mean seriously? Who knows? Both sides have nuclear weapons, don’t they? This is not something that ever happened. Would the US armed forces go along with the plan or will there be a coup? Will everybody keep their heads leveled and avoid exchange nuclear explosions even with people dying at home / on the front? Will somebody just put a bullet on Trump’s head and stop the madness?

But the thing I can tell is that if you are expecting country lines and military treaties to be immutable, that’s not how they work.

Hum… Did they change the name of the North-America’s South-West like the Mexico president requested too?

They have clear rules for contested areas… that they follow in an as clear way as their user support rules.

Well, if you find it, please tell :)

It’s a clear Microsoft paradox: is the support person right, or did Teams do something reasonable?

You know, last time I’ve reached the MS forum, there was a support person there answering “No, there’s no way to disable the Teams pop-up that appears over your shared screen when you mute the microphone. Lots of people ask the same question, and the developers have no plans of changing this”.

The answer was complete, helpful, and completely out of the normal for the forum. The only thing more out of character would be if Teams actually had an option to make it work as any sane person would expect, but then, this is not on the forum people.