You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.

It’s even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.

Exactly. You write the tests first so you know exactly when not to remove Windows.

I figure the most bang for my buck right now is to set up off-site backups to a cloud provider.

If you don’t have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can’t afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.

Then I started reading about backing up databases

Go read the instructions for your database in particular. They are completely different from each other. Ignore generic instructions.

now I’m configuring a docker-db-backup container

What is perfectly fine. But I’d first look how this interferes with the budget you talked about earlier and if it wouldn’t be better to keep things simpler and put the money on data replication.

Either way, if your budget is low, I’d focus a lot on making sure you have the data when you need to restore, and less on streamlining the restore procedure. (That seems to be the direction you are going, so yeah, I’d say it’s good.) Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.

Just like functional programing is about making state explicit, not making it go away.

Overall, both arms are wrong… so they cancel out or something like that.

And it still doesn’t work. Just “mostly works”.

Good luck, the instances can’t just be started in any random order and at their current version their dependency graph is cyclical.

Linux is clearly inferior to Linux. Have you tried Linux? It beats Linux in every single dimension!

Honestly, it has been working perfectly fine to me for a couple of decades. With games and everything. But that’s not the same Linux that everybody uses. Each person that installs it lives in a different universe from everybody else.

But anyway, if we could just stop the Ubuntu propaganda and avoid people starting with that piece of shit, a lot of the problems would disappear.

Well, if you find it, please tell :)

It’s a clear Microsoft paradox: is the support person right, or did Teams do something reasonable?

You know, last time I’ve reached the MS forum, there was a support person there answering “No, there’s no way to disable the Teams pop-up that appears over your shared screen when you mute the microphone. Lots of people ask the same question, and the developers have no plans of changing this”.

The answer was complete, helpful, and completely out of the normal for the forum. The only thing more out of character would be if Teams actually had an option to make it work as any sane person would expect, but then, this is not on the forum people.

We all know that water vapor can stay inside them for days and not change temperature…

What makes me wonder, what is the heat conductivity of iron in factorio?

int main() {
    useless:
    int x = 10;
    if (1) {
        goto useless;
    }
}

It certainly beats Teams, Slack, or Discord. For a start, you have control over the messages and can actually search on them.

Yes, parrots do that thing where they are hostile to entire groups of humans.

My grandmother used to have one that attacked children.

C has undefined behavior for that.

Yeah, dust is not what you need to care about. But it’s not good to have a printer indoors.

There are enclosed printers that you can plug ventilation ducts that solve this problem. Some have filters, but any filter without a molecular sieve (usually activated coal) won’t help you, because the problem isn’t with dust.

Resin printers also give you problems on handling the resin. It’s not enough to enclose those printers, you need protection equipment and a place to deal with the supplies and recent prints.

Oh, ok, I overlooked it has space to grow. This is one conversation I’ve never seen.

Yeah, almost certainly the software only uses 4GB because it limits itself to what memory it has available.

I have seen this conversation pan out a few times already. It has always been because of that, and once expanded things work much better. (Personally I have never took party at one, I guess that’s luck.)