🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Ice Ice Baby

“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department!” says Wernher von Braun

…for Hitler, and Germany? :)

I mean, you got that song stuck in my head, least I can do is post it. hehe

So you stopped after collaborate, but did you listen?

eh, how modern is it?

Time for a knife!^[1] Violence is the answer!

It’s important to learn how to use package managers. :)

Ugh. At least two decades I’ve used them and never made that connection. Thank you. And curse you. lol

I guess …x. means NOTHING to you… ;-)

Bothers me that you wouldn’t go for 1.21.1 but you got the freedom to be WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG^[1] if you want.

You’d probably just call me out for “whataboutism” so you don’t have to answer try and justify your point

If you’re going to put words in my mouth, why should I bother? That especially seems unfair since I believe I answered your last reply in pretty damned good faith.

I was thinking OP was going for “chemicals bad”. Nestle is a good example. And frankly, the sugar cartel and corn… well maybe not corn cartel, but corporate farm certel perhaps has pushed so hard for corn subsidies that we put corn syrup (not inherently bad) in everything and push corn products and grow corn to burn in our cars…

I still think our food supply is generally safe - generally.

But anyway. Care to put any more words in my mouth?

I did say

Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky.

I had Flint in mind.

It’s my understanding that the problems have been resolved.

Water problems like that are not widespread in the US.

Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself

Pardon me blocking you, but you’ve been shitty in every single interaction we’ve had, so bugger off.

Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary. It’s also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of “chemicals”. Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but “poisoning you” is a bit much.

And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn’t unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

The country run by pedos? Yep, that one’s a go as well.

Too distracted? Yeah, and that’s thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it’s all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it’s hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

Do what you can, whatever that is.

Are you… just talking about stuff like pictures and videos and important documents? I mean, I would have thought the context was clear that that’s not really what’s being discussed. But if not, then sure, if you just have files backed up, then all you need to worry about is making sure you have enough copies of that as you need to not lose it.

Hmm. I’d better explain that.

Anywhere you have data that exists in one place, it is a matter of time before it dies. Who knows how long it’ll be, but it will eventually die.

If you have data in two places, then when it dies in one of those places, as long as it also hasn’t died in the other place, you have one copy and it will eventually die unless you replicate it somewhere else.

And many people find that when they go to read those burnded discs or read that backup external drive - oops, it’s damaged or dead. And then that data is gone.

So for unimportant things, a single backup somewhere is probably fine. But is that backup in your house with your computer that it’s also on? If your house burns, those two places are gone and your data is gone. Is that worth the tiny risk? Up to you. You know how much yo ucare about your data.

If you really want to make sure something valuable like important documents and family pictures, then ideally you want at least one copy offsite. If it’s important, it’s no bad thing to have two copies of it offsite along with perhaps one backup locally so it’s convenient. While you don’t need ten copies of data, it’s surprising how quickly 1-2 copies can go bad at the same time, or one goes bad and you don’t replace it and another goes bad and… quickly you run the risk of data loss.

For a home user who doesn’t want to lose their files,

That’s not the topic at hand, which one might’ve been able to tell from context clues.

two local backups and a cloud one.

That is a pretty good minimal setup. Not disparaging, that’s better than probably 95% if not more like 99% of people do.

Just give me anxiety?

No, you’re the one in a conversation that’s really not about your type of situation.

We’re talking about businesses who have servers - internet servers, internal servers. These run software. They have databases with largre amounts of data. They have programs that have lots of settings, configured in various ways. Servers set up to run services on the LAN and/or WAN and/or across the internet.

On your home computer, you can reinstall Windows, install Office, install Adobe, all the other software you use. And you can take the annoying time to re-customize everything to get it set up to your liking. Then copy all your documents over. You won’t have everything ready-to-go unless you use a fancy backup and restore method (that starts to touch on the subject being discussed here - that restore is not guaranteed unless you’ve tested it. It’s amazing how often that goes wrong), but it’s okay, you have time.

In a corporate environment, if something breaks and you need to restore that data and software, you need it up and running ASAP.

Now, you’d think it would be as simple as getting the hardware, installing the OS, installing the software, and restoring the data - but that’s not necessarily the case. Not the same version of the software? Data formatting might’ve changed. Settings might’ve changed. Does every version of everything work together? Underlying pieces f the system are different? Might cause things to break.

I won’t get into the technical details beyond that, but the point is that we’re not talking about just some pics and docs.

So that’s th egenesis of the misunderstandings here. It’s a wholly different topic than what you’re dealing with.

But yeah, for you, you’ve got a good backup system going. I personally have two different cloud providers for the data I want to keep the most, but that’s not all the pics and such, just for a subset of it.

Does the newly set up environment exactly match the previous? Same software versions?

And when the restoration of that data fails?

Are you being willfully ignorant or obstinate? Or do you not understand the concept that even with the data there, restoration of that data can fail in many ways?

A couple of times I needed to restore sites from backup, it failed. Not because the data wasnt there. Heh

Having the data is useless when the restoration process fails, which it can do due numerous reasons.

I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)