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  • A'ight, well hurry up and come over here.

  • Removable storage isn't NAS, it's just good ol' storage, but a valid backup option nonetheless.Removable HDDs and SSDs tend to be less reliable than their internal counterparts, I don't know to what degree, but if you make backups reasonably frequently, your OS will PROBABLY detect failures and point them out.

    If you have extremely important data (like $9B worth of Bitcoin or something) you would need:

    • more than one off-site backup;
    • to know how to properly encrypt them and keep them safe;
    • a more reliable source of advice than some shmuck on Lemmy.

    Speaking of encryption: do NOT store unencrypted sensitive data on removable storage.Things like .kdbx files from KeePass should be fine, the application takes care of encryption for you, otherwise you should look for ways to encrypt each file or the storage device itself.

    I personally have one 2TB external HDD and a RAID0 pair of 1TB HDDs, which I don't use exclusively as backup, and if an airplane crashes on my house then gg bb; cloud storage solutions are way more reliable than handling storage yourself, but then you'd be entrusting third parties with your stuff.

  • You can't stop me >:C

  • NAS stands for "Network Attached Storage", basically a computer whose sole purpose is storing and serving files in your home.

    RAID stands for "Reduntant Array of Inexpensive Disks", and is broadly a way to merge multiple disks into one.RAID 0 means that files are evenly distributed on all disks, which improves IO speed and extends a file system (≈ a partition) 's capacity, but it's useless against disk failure;RAID 1(mirroring) means that all disks have the same data as a sort of real-time backup, and as long as one disk remains functional, all the other disks can fail without the data becoming inaccessible;other RAID levels use clever math to offer a mix of the first two, spreading files among disks (like RAID 0) but still tolerating failures of a small number of disks (like RAID 1 but way less redundant).

    Wikipedia has a less abridged explaination on its RAID page.

  • Having used Windows quite a few times in my life, I know the feeling

  • Magic is computers

    • There are runes that can create golems, or perform math like no human ever could
    • A rune can only be read or written by mages of the correct school
    • Computers are haunted by insect-like ghosts who can't be seen by the naked eye
    • Ward spells, created by mages only for mages, can be used to detect the ghosts or defend against them
    • Magic manifests when mana flows through the spellcasting implement
    • Old runes are incomprehensible to younger mages, but years of reverse-engineering study from the dedicated ones can reveal their secrets
    • Souls may lose their storage device physical form, but as long as they exist, they can be brought back to life
  • Tragic

    Jump
  • Idk, lately I've seen more people saying they use Bazzite than anything else

  • Too much, the juices got to them

  • Seems sus

    Jump
  • Only to get 1 downvote and no follow-up

  • But generally they already do hate Linux, we're talking about the demographic that considers webp a bad image format because some Windows default applications don't support it while having no idea what the format is like

  • "Cool way to have a conversation with the audience"My sister in Christ, I'm not an Elcor

  • The mindblowing thing is that, if wikipedia doesn't lie, the same developers also made fucking Moonbase Alpha

  • Me seeing you reply with that GIF, then reading your username:

  • Phew, you had me worried there for a sec

  • ... modern cars run Windows? D:

  • Just to be clear: while I've seen ads in one form or another in every (non-LTSC) installation of Windows 10 and 11 I've ever made, I'm not claiming that Windows 11 actually shows unskippable ads (in video format) when using the start menu yet, that was a hyperbole.

  • Have you had severe fuckups yearly with Windows, or Linux?

    I've had bi-yearly severe fuckups with Windows and have yearly (probably more) severe fuckups with Arch;the fix to the latter is a thumb drive away, the fix to the former is an ancient ritual which the FBI is still investigating me for.