My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.

Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.

I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.

“This is the ship. USS Enterprise…”

And you thought J. Edgar Hoover was paranoid.

Indeed has been steadily enshitifying for quite some time so this tracks.

Well they wouldn’t if not for that hefty bailout by the American taxpayers that they got back in 2008.

If you’re one of the largest and oldest car manufacturers in the world and the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick into a young family brand, then you probably need some good competition.

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:20

Just knowing that a black person’s ass cheeks have touched the same toilet seat as theirs is enough to make racists lose their minds.

Probably the “Big Beautiful Ugly Bill”, which is very unpopular, so they are trying to ram it through the house as quickly as possible.

I have a rule that “Nothing will be automated that cannot be manually overridden.”

Well, actually it’s my wife’s rule but it’s a good rule nonetheless. As a result, there’s a big panel full of relays in the basement that is the “last mile” for anything climate control or security related.

There have been a few times when it’s been handy. Like when the exhaust fan isn’t working and I don’t want to debug the ESP32 controller today so I just flip it over to “Manual”.

Highly location dependent. We have useable cell service in our house but Internet over 5G is slow.

Corporate America over here committing piracy en masse.

In my neighborhood you get a choice between coax or nothing.

And Hamas.

Clutches Pearls

I’m fine with blatant corruption and flagrant violations of the law but I draw the line at saying “fuck”.

/S

Mismanaged. Subsidizing shortfalls in the general fund using funds from the electric utility.

TLDR: The town owns its own electric utility and mismanaged the utility’s funds to the point of leaving the distribution system in severe disrepair.

Oh yeah? Well, my upcoming AI models pose a higher risk of enabling the discovery of the location of the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, which would [allegedly] make ones armies invincible and impervious to biological weapons.

Invest now!

I’m gonna go with “yes”.

I use Jellyfin with FinAmp for Android. Even supports offline caching.