Hal

@Hal@piefed.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Society⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do we know Dr Pepper is a person doctor not a vet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i sync subtitles while watching movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that I’ve ever seen subtitles synced correctly outside of streaming services. You must have a different setup to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every. Time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t you just put the stuff in the trolley unbagged then bag them when you get to the car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if your toast isn’t taller than those sides, can you open it sideways or something? Remember those bars are scorching hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite is when a toaster with the lift function raises to a high point that’s lower than the high point on one without the lift.

  Or that time I went through every display toaster in the store to get the one that lifted the highest, then when I bought one and took it home the one in the box only lifted to a high point an inch lower than the display model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to cancel OneDrive and run my own cloud storage, and I have almost 1TB of family photos and videos going back generations. I was utterly terrified that I’d do something and lose them.

  What I did was just go overboard on backups. I back up to a backup drive on the server (which is in my house). I use borg backup for incremental backups so I can go back to previous versions if needed. I have daily for 2 works then monthly which go back years so I can go back to any of these times if needed.

  Next I sync that borg repository to Backblaze using rclone. So now if my house burns down I don’t lose everything. Thats 3 copies (original + backup + cloud) on two mediums (hdd + object storage), with one offsite (cloud), so that’s the 3 2 1 backup strategy.

  Ok but what happens if I accidentally delete it all. It’s within my capability. So I wanted to have an air gapped disk. But if someone finds it decades later, any ssd, hdd, or cd is gonna be degraded. So I burnt everything to M-Disc, which should last 100+ years.

  What if the house burns down and I’m inside it, who is going to know how to decrypt a borg repository, or even how to download it from Backblaze? So I burned two copies of everything to M-Disc, all unencrypted, and store one copy at my mother’s house.

  And for good measure, I also printed 100 photos from each year and put them in a big black storage container, so if none of that works there’s still a chance.

  Every year I print another 100 photos and burn another M-Disc with changes (using rsync to identify the changes).

  I’m very paranoid about losing these photos, because I have done it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or simply having bots copy top posts from a year earlier to get upvotes, like they did on Reddit.