In addition to what another poster said about getting an off-site backup hard drive, I would recommend looking into setting up a raid array for data redundancy with your online storage. You don't want one hard drive failure to make all of your data inaccessible.
That IS how some people think it works, which is why conversion therapy gets pushed. I appreciate that you were joking but it would be lost on anyone you're actually talking about.
I'm not seeing anything other than hard right sources claiming that it actually passed, much less unanimously. I would caution against running with this news.
EDIT: The congressional record for today, the 18th, isn't published yet but will be tomorrow morning. In yesterday's record there is a vote in the House, not the Senate, that appears to be bundling the short-term funding extension with the Charlie Kirk stuff, which is, I believe the technical term is, clown shit.
The much bigger concern is that the pathway used to send the remote kill command could very easily be utilized by nefarious actors.