…Dad?

“Here’s a recorder.”

-My step kid’s music teacher on the last day of school

I have many multiple tb drives to sell them. As many as they want.

My neighbor is named Karen. She’s absolutely a Karen, but she’s my Karen.

She’s actually pretty nice and takes care of her neighbors, but she is all up in the neighborhood’s business sometimes.

Same, I bought something years ago that amounted to something like $15.05, I had a $20 and some change so I tossed in an extra dime so I wouldn’t have to fill my wallet with singles and have a bunch of change in my pocket. Nope, cashier looked at me like I was stupid and handed me back my worst nightmare because they had to make up being short a quarter in dimes and nickels.

I just broke my backup server upgrading to trixie, so I got to see if my backup of my backup server was backed up properly (it wasn’t) and if I could bring it back up again (I could).

There’s zero reason I should be updating this device. It does two things, offers an NFS share to a server, then creates incremental backups of what that server puts on there.

It’s pretty damn easy to get a technician license, there are many organizations that will do the test for free if the $35 fee is too much to spend on a lark. It allows you to push that button and there’s lots of cool digital stuff you can do as well. Equipment can get pretty pricey, though. As true as it is that every ham has a baofeng handheld (or several) they tend to really suck to learn how to use and it very well could hamper your enjoyment of the hobby if you want to transmit. Listening is fine on them, so if that’s all you want to do it’ll be fine.

If you do want to talk, I would actually recommend starting with GMRS, especially if you have family members you might want to talk to that wouldn’t want to get their own ham license. You buy a license instead of testing, and the equipment is basically just locked down ham radios and if your handy, you can use the right old commercial equipment and reprogram them for GMRS use. The community is a bit more newbie friendly since your license extends to your household as well and kids are more common, and a large portion of the community are hams as well.

Wait, did they mess with lilo and stitch?

Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).

Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.

VLC can also do it.

I have personally started dd’ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.

Ripping can be a pain, there’s all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn’t rip no matter what I tried.

That’s called “doing management’s job”

Yeah, that’s one thing that sucks about union jobs. On the other hand, I’m no longer at a union job and can break/lunch whenever I want, but my boss can make unrealistic expectations and I have no way to argue if I can’t get another manager in the line to back me up. My current workplace is very quickly turning into a shittty place to work since there isn’t a union to push back.

Don’t forget they also hold you responsible for all your work they held up.

I told my kid he needed to turn off his computer at night when he’s done. He said “ugh…I always do”. Then proceeded to lock it as if proving me wrong.

Are you sure you want every single thing you do on one device to be shared and saved on another? Are you SURE you want that? Because I’m not. It’s not even a matter of doing fishy stuff or not, it’s a matter of having control over where your information is stored

Exactly my opinion, if I want something accessible from a different device through the cloud I’ll be the one to put it there. I’ll decide which folders to sync, which files to upload. 99% of my data is crap that I don’t want synced, half of that is probably not anything I even want on that device in the first place.

What really gets me is that the things I really really don’t ever want to lose, I don’t ever want any cloud provider to have access to without it being encrypted.

Oven cleaner will strip seasoning

You can set up a pretty robust backup system for pretty cheap if you already have the drives, and the knowledge to set it up yourself. I have two always on devices, an NAS that is my central location for important files, which syncs to a backup device with two hard drives that are synced at different intervals. If a drive fails, it gets replaced, and I haven’t lost the core of my backups, I might lose some incremental backups, but it’s more important to me that I have 3 copies available on different drives. 2 are in one location, the third in a separate location and my syncs are each an interation behind, so if there’s a huge screw up, it’ll take three sync cycles before the main copies are lost (not including the incremental backups I also keep).

This setup allows you to replace drives as they fail so you can constantly update with technologies and don’t need to worry about what’s the best medium.

It’s not wrong, but a lot of people hate being harassed until they buy something.

It’s literally a rock that will preserve things

Buy it for life® ?

You want to make sure you aren’t using a lye-based soap. Dr. bronners falls in this category and can take a bit of your seasoning off, at least if they haven’t changed their soaps in 10 years. It shouldn’t ruin your seasoning, but it can remove some of it and leave it a matte finish. Dawn and normal grocery store dish soaps won’t hurt anything.