Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.
I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.
Hm.
Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.
My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…
Lol! Jesus fuck, you just made me choke in laughter on my breakfast!!
Nicely done and thanks for the morning laugh.
I think as his dementia takes hold more and more, he’s going to become more erratic and it will be cunts like Steven Miller who step up to push for things. My suspicion is that the GOP is staying silent because there are many senior legislators and connected friends that ran with Epstein and why Trump isn’t releasing those files is because it’s “compromat” that he can leverage tons of people with. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing Roy Cohn would have taught him to do.
Good. Trump and his administration deserve to be litigated into the dirt.
Roy Cohn the clown show.
Startpage! No shit. Used to be Ixquick, and I used that for years. Great site - thank you for reminding me it’s still there. :)
Will cut the AI results out of your google searches by switching the browser’s default to the web api…
I cannot tell you how much I love it.
Damn, that’s bad for the snek. Toddlers parasitize sneks when eaten… Poor snek.
OP is a snek bro…
If you interacted with a smooth green snake - aka “grass snake” - (they’re tiny) and checked out their color in the sun (it’s gorgeous) - they’d maybe be less nope ropes and more dinky slinky…
But yes, the “danger noodles” are the venemous ones…
We’ve got to make certain that Mr. Trump hears, reads and sees a LOT about President Stephen Miller on the internet.
The comeuppance for all of this after the mid-terms is going to be frightening to ICE…
If (and this is a big IF) the mid-terms happen, vote.
I do my backups manually.
As I have run unsuported Mac installs for the last 20 years, I started a long time ago, automatically partitioning my OS drives and making storage volumes to work off of.
The storage volume in the computer will have subfolders for the type of data - music, video, photos, etc.
When my storage volumes fill, I will pull my latest backup drive out of storage, hook it up then go into each storage subfolder, sort by date and add everything that’s newer than what’s in the backup drive. (which is actually how Apple’s Time Machine backups work - incrementally sorted by date - but I’ve had this method since the start, so I just stuck with it)
I just make sure to take note of how many files/folders I’m adding to the backup drive and note what it has at the start, then at the end, as a double-check of it all, before I clear the storage drive on the computer. (I did not do this and lost almost a years worth of music rips, waay back in 2003. Rebuilt the music I lost then iTunes threw a wobbler and lost the library for me. FML…)
The longest backup will ALWAYS be the initial one if you’re dealing with a first time backup. The rest, once you work out how to organize your files, is academic.
What I’ve found is that your tastes will change, you grab content you think you’ll want to hold onto forever… and then years later, you realize it’s low-bitrate, low-resolution, too pixellated… whatever… and you decide to delete it.
With the software doing the backups for you - it’s too easy to just let it rip and go have dinner while it works and you end up with files that you’d otherwise get rid of. Part of being a data hoarder is not keeping everything forever. There’s a ton of garbage online. Tastes change as you get older… You want to curate that shit so you can keep what’s most important - like family stuff.
And really good porn.
Yikes. Before you dip into any of the self-hosting, take and get a WD Gold drive - from Western Digital directly (wd.com) - do NOT go through Amazon or NewEgg or any third party merchant. Send in the warranty that goes with it and register the drive (this is for covering the off chance it’s a DOA unit) Then get a good quality enclosure to pop the drive into and take your time and back up EVERYTHING onto that new HD.
Don’t use an SSD.
You want a spinning platter drive, as this is backup only, so once it’s full with all of your content, it gets dated and labeled and popped into a drawer for safe keeping. If you have countless terabytes of data, get more drives and swap them into the enclosure, date and incrementally fill. A fine tip sharpie to note what’s on the drive is fine, or if you’re obsessively anal about it, make a spreadsheet with that info… If your drives are kept dry and stored with care they will last for DECADES…
The truth if being honest here - I’m a data hoarder and most of the stuff I’ve tucked away since I first came online (in 1999) is now on drives that I maybe spin up once a year. I used to have the notion that it was critical that all my shit was accessible all the time and I ended up dropping money on networked storage… and over time, realized that as long as I knew where the files were, DID have the most important stuff - family photos and scans - tucked away not only in long term storage, but on multiple drives in multiple machines, (home, work, laptop) it was okay not have it served up instantly.
Just reading your post made me go cold inside - I can only imagine what you were going through until it got sorted. From a bonafide old school data hoarder… Please, back your shit up locally. Use enterprise drives.
Then sort a self-hosting soultion.
Look at the demographic of any “left” and you generally find kids that don’t understand how societal power works.
Taking a few classes on sociology and reading Marx is fine and all that, but they need to understand the framework of conformist, consumerist America and leverage that… and as it’s anathema to what Marx says… they’ll forever be smacking their heads against the walls.
Then they grow up and become Wall Street brokers.
Sause: Am 60, and have seen this same shit happening over and over - for decades.
A face so ugly, the dog won’t play with him.
Thing is, it’s not half as ugly as he is on the inside.
Read a bit of history on him, the guy is massively fucked up, and I wonder what secret trauma he’s got that made him like he is. It goes beyond just being a young man that was angry at the world and has grown bitter as he’s aged.
It’s likely something emotionally crippling and so traumatic that he will never face it.
Unfortunately, the violence directed at them is what many on the right and even Trump himself want, because it will be used as a pretext to interfere in the mid-term elections coming in 2026.
I mean, they’re going to try anyhow, and stirring up shit will just give them that much more leverage to do so.
As rage-inducing as Trump is, just biding ones time and voting and getting everyone you know to vote in the mid-terms for the Democrats - even if the candidate is an absolute stinker - is what is needed to put the brakes onto this administration.
As horrifying as it will be… it’s going to take some godawful disease like polio to rear it’s ugly head again for the vast muddling middle to wake the hell up.
I remember a friend of my aunt who was in a wheelchair - she was in her 70’s when I was a teenager and she had gotten polio as a little girl. Lovely woman, and a real example of what can happen without vaccines.
God save us, generational amnesia is a thing, and we’ve gotten complacent because vaccines haved worked so well for the last 75 years.
Thing is, it’s gonna hit the rural MAGA folks the hardest.
There’s a part of me that wants to go “I told you so…” which is expected…
But the more cunning part of me wants to leverage their hunger, dismay and rage and work to aim it squarely against Trump and the entire MAGA movement.