Snapshots, or actual backups? You’re doing full system backups hourly?

My backups go pretty fast, but they still impact CPU, and interfere with both network, SSD, and USB bandwidth. I could do that hourly, but jesus that’d impact my B2 bill significantly. And I hate having things randomly slow down.

Snapshots are cheap and fast, but they aren’t backups.

Hmmm. There are a lot more opinions about this than I thought there’d be.

Personally, and without any real evidence? I think it’s just because conceding a point somehow feels as if it compromises your whole position. Like you’re getting scored, and admitting you’re wrong gives the other person a point and undermines your entire argument.

My laptop, I’d just suspend to RAM, unless I was going somewhere without it for a couple of days or more.

The desktop is always on. The monitors suspend, but everything else is sucking power. I expect with frequency scaling, it’s not as bad as it used to be, but then, in ye oelden days I didn’t do nightly backups to the cloud and disc, or sync data between servers and run other odd, automated jobs.

Hmmm, but in the wee hours is when I have my backups and automated maintenance scheduled.

Go you! I think skill in that area may not make you rich, but would be guaranteed work.

Yes. TL;DR, “tradecraft” as a synonym for spy-work was borrowed by the intelligence community from industry. Very likely, introduced by John le Carré, although he admitted that he could no longer remember which terms he introduced that were adopted by intelligence, and which he picked up from them.

But that term originates in 1810, and refers to the work of skilled trade laborers.

So did 2025 to me, back in the 80’s. Back then, I thought women would have income parity, we might have a large space habitat, or maybe even a permanent outpost on the moon, that NASA would still be running the space program for the US… but I had no idea we’d invent time travel and the US would be transported to back to 1940.

Of course! It’s just, the example you have included a powerful adjective, and I was just making sure you were rally talking about the colour of “knackered” and not “fucking.”

Good cheese accessability is better today for sure, although I’m certain lots of folks in the US even back then were getting good cheese. Just not my family. We were lower middle-income, and my folks didn’t know any better. And may not have cared; neither has shown a passion for cheese even in the modern market.

Hmmm. I’ve been known to hit the junk yard for replacements for a Ford LTD, way back in the Oelden Daiz, but a) I’m not sure about trusting second hand parts in a motorcycle, and b) I’d probably be unsuccessful at rewiring it.

By the Nighthawk, we’d started entering the phase where vehicles were becoming essentially solid-state devices. There was no space, and to do anything serious, you had to basically take the whole thing to pieces; and I’m not mechanically inclined. If I can reach in with my hands, I’m fine, but multi-part disassembly and - more critically - correct reassembly challenges me.

Also, motorcycles are death machines. At least if a professional works on it, it’s one less thing for me to worry about going wrong on a ride, and taking me out. A sudden loss of power at 65 might not be guaranteed fatal, but I still wouldn’t want to risk it, or something falling off because of my own incompetence putting it back together.

Because they were wondering if it was a Caddy issue, and I’ll bet real money it isn’t.

Being able to exclude components from being a possible source of the issue is critical to problem solving.

Hmmm. You’re right; it’s a mechanism I’ve never used because it’s more work and it is slower, and I forget about it. All you need to do is be able to prove you own the domain, and control over the DNS record is certainly viable.

Is that what Porkbun does? Because Caddy can automate the http method, but not the DNS challenge method, because both require a handshake and that’s updating the DNS record.

It can be done, in novels at least, and there are some authors who not only do it well, but it’s just their style. Neal Asher is particularly good at this; I just think it wasn’t JRRT’s strength as writer.

Depending on the rules, exactly does this magic conserve mass? Uranium would get bigger, cotton candy would shrink to a flake? All of the air in the world weighs 5.5 quadrillion tons. A ton of gold is 16.5 cubic inches, or 270 cm³ - so a block about the length of your foot plus a bit per side 5.5 quadrillion of those - a 1,487 cubic km block.

I’d choose to shape it into a giant pyramid, which would minimize how much it sinks into the crust, and look cool AF for the 130-odd seconds it takes everyone to asphyxiate because we’re staring at a giant gold pyramid made from the matter that used to be the atmosphere.

Ice-IX. From the book, not the real stuff discovered after the book.

My least favorite book of the three.

Between 12 and about 24, I read the entire quad every summer. Religiously. I always dreaded coming to The Two Towers; it felt like such a slog, and I don’t think jumping between parallel story lines was Tolkien’s forté. Return of the King got better as everyone (well, except the Ring Bearer) started gathering together again and there were fewer threads.

IMHO.

I’ve never heard of Porkbun, but it doesn’t sound like a caddy issue. Let’s Encrypt requires being able to resolve the DNS name you’re requesting a cert for, and to be able to connect to your web service and fetch a secret to prove you own the domain. If porkbun does something like punch a hole in your LAN firewall and let in http traffic, then porkbun is the problem. Not Caddy.

Yeah, I’ve not had issues accessing my instance with a VPN. But it’s the world we live in. I had a vigorous discussion with someone (it’s in my history), vigorous because I replied to a post aggressively, about the poster blocking VPN clients on their self-hosted blog. Someone quite rightly pointed out that botnets, hackers, and spammers are heavy users of VPNs, and sometimes it’s just easier for a hobby admin to block VPN exit nodes. I’ve come to terms with it; there’s nothing online I need to read so badly that I’m going to compromise my own security for their convenience.

As for privacy, you’re absolutely right. Privacy? In a public forum? A federated public forum?? Pick an instance that doesn’t require an email address to register, or use a throw-away email.

But to answer OP’s question: Reddit is owned by a single group of people with complete admin control over the site. Lemmy has many diverse site owners and admins; there is no Spez.

And for that cost, you could just buy a new bike.

Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life.

Are you sure that anima you ascribe to “knackered” isn’t coming from the adjective? “Fucking exhausted!” sounds, to my ear, just a full of feeling. Whereas, “I’m knackered” sounds just as lifeless as “I’m exhausted.” I wonder if you’re mis-attributing the vigor from “fucking,” which is, indeed, a potent word.