I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

…and the kid who drew the orange was paid by the…local orange juice cartel, or something…who were making tons of money off of this entire kerfuffle.

Oh that’s really cool! I’m gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)

EDIT: Is it the BBC one you’re talking about?

That’s awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a “source archive” that’s just a raw CD dump.

I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!

I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn’t do the trick. :D

Here’s a link I found to the soundtrack in “CD Quality”, with a download link, if you’re interested.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_jQUy7iOXscq

That 90’s crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing…it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D

So much this, although I really regret not just finishing college whilst all this crap was still in its infancy. Student exploitation is absolutely nuts these days.

“Turnitin”, the “Lockdown Browser” and its fellow RAT rootkit malware ilk, one time use serial codes to do the “homework” in $300 textbooks.

It’s absolute insanity. Especially nowadays when schools and wider society forgot what education was about, and run with the idea that it’s all to earn a lottery ticket to potentially landing a job that might one day pay off that exploitation.

This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!

I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…

The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…

“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

– The 90’s, Probably.

Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol

“Temper, temper!”

LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! I’ll have to check out Vinyard Story.

In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.

Sheer. Friggin. Terror!

Obligatory:

“A Møøse once bit my sister …”

“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”

“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3

Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.

In the right (wrong?) season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.

I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose too lol.

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)

It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.

Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.

“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”

(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)

Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)

That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…

… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s

I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.

Nah, someone with something to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?

parents should be put in charge of their own kids,

So convenient that governments and their corporate masters take such a keen interest in watching our kids, after making all their parents spend most of their lives at miserable jobs.

On your feet, comrade. This is no place to die.