If it’s not broke…

I’m not into any sports at all, of any kind. I dont think I could even name 10 athletes in total - either male or female.

I’m also pretty sure that wouldn’t be a blocker on me having a meaningful discussion about trans inclusivity in sports

I am both of these.

Hoarding everything is my default state, but eventually I have to get firm with myself and do a Marie Kondo.

I suppose I should be grateful I only have a small home because if I had any more space I’d surely fill it.

Personally I have had plenty of issues, and find this meme very relatable.

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Yep.

And it’s especially difficult to compete with the entrenched giant when that giant actually doesn’t suck while some of the storefronts going up against it absolutely do, both in features and as toxic companies.

The instructions for Windows work just as well on Linux, to be fair.

Sounds like you’ve got quite the esoteric setup, hehe :)

My personal solution isn’t exactly small as I have two identical four-disk NAS servers which operate with one as primary and the other as a read-only mirror of the primary. For off-site I don’t have an automated solution but just backup onto external every so often and leave it with a family member.

A good solution could be as simple as a raspberry pi with an external SSD at a friend or family’s place, and then make that accessible via VPN to your home network.

SSDs at the end of their lifespan do tend to fail more gracefully than HDDs, as even when they become fully worn and unable to take new writes, they will often still allow reads.

But, that depends on the specific type of failure.

I had an SSD fail in the same way as yours, where the controller chip or something along the path there died, and it went from fully working to toast in an instant.

Some drives are more reliable, some drives are less reliable, but the only rule is that any drive can break, at any time, old or new.

Always have backups.

That dress has some missingno vibes

For what it’s worth, I’m with you.

I also work from home, and while I generally cook all my own meals and do meal prep at werkends, sometimes I have a bad/stressful week where I cave and get fast food like three lunches in a row.

I keep a grocery bag in the car and put the fast food in there to hide my shame.

Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.

A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren’t “business” stuff.

A person who thinks tech is easy and you can “just” do this and “just” do that and everything will be done, always telling you “this is so easy I could do it myself” while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there’s any kind of hold-up it’s because you’re either “lazy” or “incompetent”

No thanks.