Internal RAID1 as first line of defense. Rsync to external drives where at least one is always offsite as second. Rclone to cloud storage for my most important data as the third.

Backups 2 and 3 are manual but I have reminders set and do it about once a month. I don’t accrue much new data that I can’t easily replace so that’s fine for me.

Ah, delete the windows partition. That should keep me safe.

You must have much higher standards than me.

Currently migrating a massive monolithic Java application to microservices… The circle of life continues.

Want to just swap jobs in ~5 years to keep the cycle going? You can migrate this project back to a Java monolith and I’ll migrate your monolith back to micros :D

I like to call myself a codemonkey

Yep, that’s why I made sure to include that “we all know how fun BIOS RAID is” bit.

It was fine with the previous 2TB RAID1, but that doesn’t mean anything.

I’ve been on mint for ages but when I updated my RAID this year it originally wouldn’t recognize it. I eventually got it recognized but it capped the 16TB drives at 999GB for some reason. For fun, I went up the chain to Ubuntu… Same thing

In frustration I went to Grandma’s house with Debian and it worked perfect out of the box. I’d spent hours researching it but the best I found was a potential RAID related bug (lvm, specifically, I think) introduced in Ubuntu that, of course, filtered into Mint. Even fdisk reported the physical drives as 999GB in Mint/Ubuntu.

I still don’t know the exact cause but I got it up and running so I’m a Debian guy now, I guess.

Granted, my use case isn’t super normal since I’m using a BIOS RAID1 (and we all know how fun BIOS RAID can be) with full disk encryption.

Worked out in the end but it made me sad to ditch Mint

I didn’t care much for their older stuff, but starting with Apex … it’s my fucking jam.

I’ve been considering this too. I don’t have much time at all to game but feel like maybe I’d do better with a portable than can stream to a TV.

I need to search up if they support all games or just those that have been ported. Surely it’s more than what has been ported to Linux…

But my mouse and keyboard, hmm

I bailed to signal the day after Facebook bought whatsapp. No regrets and nothing lost :)

I just want to say that you’re a MVP for seeding that much for that long. Lots of TBs up there - you’ve helped out a ton of people.

Thank you.

I had to check and make sure I didn’t type the comment above because it sounds exactly like me.

All UIs do things slightly differently, the CLI is always exactly the same… Everywhere. UI for non trivial conflict resolution? Definitely. For everything else, CLI.

And, I’m also reticent to use rebase unless I have to. Gimme that good ole FF :)

Amazing, isn’t it?

While I agree with the sentiment, it doesn’t really pan out for “complete this contract/form if you want to get paid” or “your job requires you to use our internal platform all day every day and we added click tracking to it but aren’t smart enough to make the site function when it’s blocked”

Occasionally it’s caused some problems with the tracking crapware that the spouse’s company uses in their web platform. Since they work from home and it breaks the main site they use for work, I’ve had to add some exceptions.

I’ve also seen it occasionally cause problems on websites that rely on tracking garbage and outright fail when they’re blocked. Usually I just never go there again but in a few cases it’s been something I was forced to use so I just disable the pihole for five minutes, do what I need, and hope to never visit that site again.

I think there have been maybe eight of these occurrences in the past five years so it’s not a continual annoyance. No big deal and definitely worth it.

Seems I’ve been watching too much Resident Evil.

Doing the quick scroll through my feed and had to pause for what I thought was the umbrella logo.

I once had a task stripping a ODM out of a large project, reverting to the native driver, because of its (extremely) poor performance. Also the fun of profiling the project to prove the ODM was to blame. I also empathize with the “supposed to make things simpler, makes them more complicated instead” point you make.

From many experiences, I hate ORM/ODMs and am immediately suspicious of anyone who likes them.

Welcome to the club, good to have you.

Cookies and coffee are in the break room.

Excellent suggestions.

I’ve got one example for the shell scripting section - a script I wrote decades ago called serial_killer.sh that’s used to terminate “bad” processes that spin up tens to hundreds of copies of themselves. You do something like serial_killer.sh my-bad-program and it will use a few CLI commands to find the PIDs for all processes named “my-bad-program”, ask you to input the signal (sigterm/sigkill) to use, ask you for confirmation that you want to send that signal to the list of processes (listing all of them with program name, owner, PID, PPID, etc), then kill all of them in one go if you confirm.

That was a hacky fix to a bad approach/configuration, but it was a fun script : )

That is an excellent idea on time management.

Yes - I’m planning to walk them through a real install to a VM and have them follow along so they have a local instance that they can play with on their (win or mac) system. It requires me to spend a little extra time for setting up VirtualBox, but I think it’s worth it since they can then play along and experiment as we discuss each topic. I know that’s how I learn best - you can tell me something multiple times but it’s only when I truly do it that it’ll stick in my memory forever.

Covering the intro, history, etc would be perfect topics to go over while the install runs.

EDIT : I should point out that I’m going to distribute thumb drives to the students that will contain VirtualBox (win+mac) installers, a Linux ISO that we’ll use (probably Ubuntu), as well as that thumb drive being a live Linux bootable drive in case they ever want to plug & boot without using a VM. This will hopefully cut down on wasted class time for “now everybody go download this 4GB ISO” - they’ll already have it available and all in the same drive/directory/etc for every student. From past teaching experience, there’s always at least one that doesn’t come prepared with downloads and such no matter how much I harp on it… that and the ever present “I saved it somewhere and now I can’t find it” 😆