Yes. No. Maybe.

I had a Microsoft mousr in the 90’s (9 pin serial, ball), that frankly was better than any other mouse at the time.

Neat! Thanks for the insight

Maybe, maybe not.

Solid objects aren’t always stronger, strangely enough. I’m no mechanical engineer, so I can’t explain it. I assume it has to do with how stress is tranferred.

Then a used car purchased for 25% less (or more) would’ve been an even greater value.

My last purchase was a 3 year old car from a small dealer that I paid half the new price - they depreciate that hard rolling off the lot. And it was in perfect condition.

Fuck buying new.

Dammit, now that song’s in my head. Thanks a lot

Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don’t have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.

What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.

The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.

That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.

If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).

As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.

Hahahaha

Geez, man, read a book. Or even a Wikipedia page

You’re advocating rule by mob over rule of law… You know, like the French Revolution

Hahaha.

I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it’s newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.

Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity? It’s a box that sprays water.

A friend has one that the fastest cycle is 1.5 hours. One cycle is four hours… Wtf?

Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.

Uhh, what could possibly be better than deep fried butter?!?

But… Does someone everyone have to die after dinner?

Ewww.

Tastes vary. But gimme a toad in the hole, or many other Brit dishes and I’m there.

Scotch Eggs… Omfg, those are fucking incredible.

Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp

1. Define “great”

Oh fuck, next door. Hey, let’s do Facebook with your next door neighbors.

What a shit show

There’s and endless supply of guides for ripping.

On Windows just use Exact Audio Copy - It can pull all the track info from multiple sources. I forget what I used on Linux.

And it’s been disproven