zerbey

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[–] zerbey 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Most bathrooms have foot pulls now, it's not a perfect solution for everyone but it's better than the alternative.

[–] zerbey 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using PGP for years, everything you said is correct. Create two keys so you have an extra one and make sure your second key is able to decrypt all files (just add it as a recipient).

[–] zerbey 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You are on a trip to disaster. Trust me, I do this for a living. One day you're going to have a horrible surprise. I once had a guy get fired right there on a support call with me, he lost years worth of data because he wasn't following good archival processes.

For consumer stuff:

  1. Buy a cheap NAS, plenty out there. Even one with just two drives is better than nothing (that's what I do). Splurge and get one that does RAID-5, you'll thank me one day. By the way, I've used WD stuff for a long time, and it's been the most reliable in my experience even though their customer service is a shit show to deal with. 1a. A cheaper, but less effective option, just buy two drives and see if your BIOS supports RAID (most modern motherboards do). If not, well you can do it in you OS too, but hardware RAID is always better.
  2. Subscribe to a service like Google Drive, or One Drive, or Dropbox, or whatever you prefer. If you're uncomfortable about putting stuff in the cloud then encrypt it first (VeraCrypt, GPG4Win, Password protected ZIP files even).

If you are running a business, definitely go with a good NAS, AND buy a tape library and get into a routine of rotating out the tapes and storing them off site (tapes are no use to you if your building get broken into, or burns down). And, use cloud storage too.

[–] zerbey 10 points 1 year ago

Putin's people got to him somehow, it was inevitable.

[–] zerbey 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like a scam, but hey hear him out it may be legit. Don't draft that resignation letter just yet. I can tell you, with almost complete certainty, that it's an MLM scheme and you should just walk away.

[–] zerbey 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, being good looking doesn't make you a good person. Plenty of beautiful assholes out there.

[–] zerbey 1 points 1 year ago

Cell to Singularity, 6500 hours and counting. In fairness, I don't actively play it most of the time it just runs in the background churning away.

[–] zerbey 5 points 1 year ago

No it is not, get rid of it and don't attempt to charge it.

[–] zerbey 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On my regular desktop PC? 1.5TB spread between three drives, not using half of it. My NAS has 4TB and I'm using about 80% of it so will need to upgrade that at some point. For a supposed IT professional I really don't use that much storage.

Probably another 2TB or so spread among the various servers and Raspberry Pis I have kicking around the place, but none of them are used for anything important.

[–] zerbey 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With general anesthesia nothing really, I remember them pushing the meds and a strange sensation as they did so, then the next thing I know I'm being wheeled back to recovery. All times I was still a kid, so may not be the experience an adult has.

Under twilight sedation I never go completely under and usually remember the whole thing, the last time it happened they said I had an unusually high tolerance to the medication. It was enough to keep me calm, but I was very much alert and so I just asked the surgeon to narrate what he was doing because it was honestly fascinating. All those experiences were for eye surgeries as an adult.

[–] zerbey 2 points 1 year ago

I've had good experiences both times, definitely communicate with the seller and make sure you know what you're getting as there's a lot of shady people who will rip you off. Also, check and see what other people have said about them in the feedback section.

[–] zerbey 9 points 1 year ago

We've come full circle in a way, let's hope this technology succeeds.

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