You can backup to an external USB drive (that’s what I do), or setup a small backup server (with RAID if you want).

If you use Borg it will do the right thing out of the box with minimal configuration - compression, deduplication, encryption, and incremental backups.

The first backup will be full and take longer, but subsequent backups will only target changes and will be quite fast.

Restoring is very straightforward, even if you only need a single file you deleted accidentally.

Raid can protect you from a single drive failure in case you need an “always on” setup. Even then, if the drives are identical, they can fail within days from each other. If you don’t have monitoring, you’ll lose everything before you can react. I feel that’s not your use case.

You need backup. You can use something like rsync or even better borg backup. Keep the backup offline and backup often. You’ll be safer that way.

I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.

True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.

“Act your wage” is just a poor excuse to normalize laziness.

Peace and quiet.

I took the kids to see some fun animation movie. Got totalled in the first few minutes.

“Some dust got in my eye. Here, you can eat my popcorn.”

The first minutes of Up.

It’s ok to not like popular stuff, no hate required.

Yes, you’re right. I bought a Kindle but haven’t used it much as I am still going through my book backlog.

As they say: you will own nothing, rent everything, and like it.

I still prefer paperback books, even if I’m struggling to find more space at home for them.

Books. I always need more.

Funny you should mention Farscape, I’ve only now started watching it (I somehow missed it when it came out). I still prefer Vala Mal Doran, but I’ll take any show with Claudia Black.

You’re absolutely right, there should be more Stargate, Firefly, and Babylon 5 content.

Your opinion is not mine to change, so it would be useless to try. I’ll let it pass through me and when it has passed only I remain.

Embrace stoicism.

Nice list, I watch most of these.

One more vote for How its Made. So relaxing.

Phil can’t dance, so maybe that is the reason why he’s being blatantly ignored by the pretty lady.

You’d expect Microsoft to have figured out how to copy Linux update methods, we have a lot of them to choose from and some are actually decent.

I do. I use a Pi-Hole at home along with an adblocker, but I’m not always home.