NekoKoneko

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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow's enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Final Fantasy IX. I was a religious FF player before IX, and loved VIII so much despite all its flaws, because it really went for it with new ideas and atmosphere and the draw junction system which was hackable and broken but really interesting. In many ways the most Final Fantasy of Final Fantasy, despite the widespread hate.

But the devs got so conservative for IX, might as well have been playing Dragon Quest. And the load times and frequency and lack of variety for random encounters was just insurmountably tedious.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

The sources said the president was upset with a particular moment during the hearing when Republican Sen. John Kennedy questioned Noem about a taxpayer-funded $220 million ad campaign. Noem repeatedly suggested the president was aware of the campaign and signed off on it.

And there it is. Killing Americans, violating the Constitution, lying, stealing, being a literal Nazi, none of that matters. To Trump, the only thing you can do wrong is prioritize anything over him.

Noem should be in jail and Mullin is just a PR switch, but I find this detail most telling about where the lines remain for Trump.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yep, this is the best thing that could've happened to Noem. In a healthy government, that alone would start an investigation and no doubt uncover criminal self-dealing.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 114 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I used to spend a lot of time on tech sites, but tech in general has all become such an evil enterprise. I remember back in the '00s looking forward to the next Android update or even back when a new Windows was going to bring improvements (even if just to fix the bugs). Now every update to every service or hardware is enshittification and SaaS.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That does make sense - also matches how I have currently sperated files so it's a valuable idea. Thanks!

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry. Shortly after posting this and the initial QA I left for a trip.

I could definitely wait those time periods for a first backup and a restore, since I assume it'll be a once in 10 year at worst situation. Data changes after the first upload should be show enough to keep up.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Bob Odenkirk has never steered us wrong, thanks. I downloaded three copies of this from YouTube in case I forget.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's incredibly helpful and informative, a great read. Thanks so much!

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (22 children)

The Backblaze option is something I've seriously considered.

Any reason this person didn't go with the $99/year personal backup plan? It says "unlimited" and it is for my household only, but maybe I'm missing something about how difficult it is to setup on Unraid or other NAS software. B2's $6/TB/mo rate would put me at $150/mo which is not great.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

For me, I have a bad memory. I might remember a childhood movie (a nickname I give to special Linux ISOs) that I hadn't even thought of for 10 years and track down a copy, sometimes excavating obscure sources, and that may be hours of one-time inspiration and work repeated many times over. Having a complete list is a good helper, but a full backup of course is best.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is certainly a viable "brute-force"-ish ooption. While I have 56, I'm only using 26 or so. But I'd actually be hesitant to do anything less than a full capacity mirror because I do expect to eventually use this (and more - adding drives to Unraid).

I've balked because of cost and upkeep (maintaining the same capacity, additional chances for drive failure, two separate sites I need physical access to with a high bandwidth connection), so I admit I was hoping I was missing an easier option.

 

I have a 56 TB local Unraid NAS that is parity protected against single drive failure, and while I think a single drive failing and being parity recovered covers data loss 95% of the time, I'm always concerned about two drives failing or a site-/system-wide disaster that takes out the whole NAS.

For other larger local hosters who are smarter and more prepared, what do you do? Do you sync it off site? How do you deal with cost and bandwidth needs if so? What other backup strategies do you use?

(Sorry if this standard scenario has been discussed - searching didn't turn up anything.)

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