To do data backups
And test your backups.
You don’t have backups until youve restored a backup.
Depends on the kind of backup really
Just a folder full of duplicate files? Try to open them.
Having a drive image you can restore from? Take an extra drive and try to “restore” the contents of your backup onto it. You use the extra drive because if you just use your primary drive you may brick yourself.
There’s definitely types of backups I’m not covering here but you should do research into the type of backups you want to use and the restoration process, and basically try the restoration process intermittently.
I kinda got lucky. I wanted to install a new, bigger SSD. At the same time, I had been wanting to start doing backups, but was too lazy to set it up. Two birds, one stone. Set up backups, tested it by copying everything to the new SSD. Everything worked first try!
I used rsnapshot for backups. I made a little container that spins up, pulls my data, then shuts down. And then I made a script that does that and made cron jobs for it.
“Gaming chairs” are a fucking scam. They’ll either fall apart after a few months of use, or cost their weight in gold. Buy an office chair instead.
Used office chair from some company that’s just replacing all their furniture, you can score $1500 chairs for a few hundred.
Waaaay long time ago one of my school friends was both a videogame junkie and car guy. This was before ‘gaming chairs’ were really a thing, but his solution was to hit a scrap yard and salvage the most comfortable seat he could find from a junked car. He mounted that onto an office chair swivel base.
To date, the most comfortable “gaming” / office chair my butt has ever had the privilege to occupy.
I have no idea what a car seat would cost from a scrap yard, but if your the tinkery type and looking for a new project…
I’ve been thinking about doing this because I have a herniated lumbar disk and every seat hurts except the seat in my truck. Hopefully this it a temporary situation but it is insanely comfortable, maybe worth it.
Worse case scenario, your back still hurts but you have an insanely comfortable computer chair!
Well… not really. Actual worse case is it fucks up your back even more. I also have a herniated disc, and I can say a lot of the things that make it feel better temporarily are making it worse in the long run. Taking pressure off of it with comfy chairs or braces etc feels good, but that pressure is what keeps your back muscles toned, which are what -should- be taking pressure off the spine. So, the more you rely on short term fixes, the more you’ll become dependent on them.
I’d honestly talk to your doc about it - if you’re not already seeing a physical therapist, get a referral. They can hook you up with some exercises to keep things manageable; and that’d be the person to run any abnormal seating plans by.
Fo sho. My buddy bought one and talked it up. I tried it out as I was interested in a new chair since my work from home ability had recently increased from 25% to 50% arouns 2018. My broke ass 10+ year old chair from college was wayyy more comfortable. Invested in a ~$250 office chair after that. Have had it for 5 years, work from home 75% of the time, amazingly comfortable and it still looks like new.
This is true. Gaming chairs are a scam. They’re made in China and sold in bulk to wholesalers for $40 who mark them up and sell them for $600. I have one and hate it, it’s hard as a rock and not adjustable.
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Buy a used Herman Miller. I know someone linked a gamers nexus video before, but you really really do not realize how bad most chairs are until you sit for ten hours straight in a Herman Miller, and have zero pain afterwards. And then that chair will last you several decades. There’s a reason they are constantly for sale. Those chairs literally outlast businesses.
I once set an S3 lifecycle setting that accidentally affected 3 years worth of logs to Glacier. The next morning I woke up to a billing alert and an AWS bill with an extra $250k in charges (our normal run rate was $30k/month at the time). Basically I spent my entire add annual cloud budget for the year overnight.
Thankfully after an email to our account rep and a bunch of back and forth I was able to get the charges reduced to $4,300.
The problem is having a competent team to manage your infrastructure. You can do a lot with a handful of people - but you need competences spanning a lot of areas, and finding that is pretty hard.
If you can get a competent team the only advantage cloud still has is the ability to quickly scale up and down - but if there might be a need for that it’d still be better to go hybrid, most on your own hardware, and just the prepared ability to quickly bring up cloud workers if needed. The cost savings of properly doing it yourself are so huge that it still might be cheaper to just have some pre-provisioned standby hardware for that, though.
Depends on your needs. If you expect to grow fast and unpredictably, or have extreme burst workloads (at my company it fluctuates between requiring ~10 cpus to ~50,000, and between 0 GPUs and dozens) or if you need several complex types of services and no people at hand who can manage them, it can be way cheaper. If you just need a few servers, a tape backup and a database, actual hardware has always been cheaper.
Yeah luckily Amazon is good about mess-ups that are one-time like this. Was the cost because you were pushing to, or retrieving from Glacier?
was hanging out with friends getting some drinks, we decided to walk through our old campus.
there was a roof I always used to climb up while in college to chill on, so I did that.
after finished, while hopped up on liquid courage, I decided to jump down.
did so and shattered my heel.
spent the entire summer immobile and required a surgery that ended up costing me about $5k out of pocket.
have mostly recovered now, but it’s still not as good as the other foot, and I know it’s going to hurt like hell when i’m old.
don’t be like me, don’t do stupid shit while drunk.
I was about to joke about the fact that you have to pay for health, but then I saw that you’ve never recovered. I’m very sorry, buddy.
Did something somewhat similar. Got drunk after final exams. We decided we were special agents and were rolling over car hoods/bonnets (like they do in chases). There was a van (think A-Team), and since it doesn’t have much of a hood, I rolled off the roof instead.
Pretty sure I cracked or broke a rib (there was literally a loud pop). Couldn’t sit up, cough, sneeze, or breathe deeply for about 2 weeks without intense pain. I never went to doctor though because I thought, “well, it’s a rib, what are they gonna do? Put a cast around my whole body?”
Now I have discomfort every day, and pain between 2-3/10 after any sports. Tough when your youth idiocy catches up with you! Felt so invincible back then.
If you have a four-year scholarship, for God’s sake, make sure you graduate in four years!
