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Hell I almost got snagged by one recently, and a goodly portion of my last job was dealing with phishing sites all day.

They've gotten good with making things look like a proper email from a business that would be sending that kind of email, and if you're distracted and expecting something you can have at least a moment of 'oh this is probably legitimate'.

The giveaway was, hilariously, a case of using 'please kindly' and 'needful' which uh, aren't something this particular company would have actually used as phraseology in an email, so saved by scammers not realizing that americans at least don't actually use those two phrases in conversation.

I just uh, wrote a bash script that does it.

It dumps databases as needed, and then makes a single tarball of each service. Or a couple depending on what needs doing to ensure a full backup of the data.

Once all the services are backed up, I just push all the data to a S3 bucket, but you could use rclone or whatever instead.

It's not some fancy cool toy kids these days love like any of the dozens of other backup options, but I'm a fan of simple and well, a couple of tarballs in a S3 bucket is about as simple as it gets since restoring doesn't require any tools or configuration or anything: just snag the tarballs you need, unarchive them, done.

I also use a couple of tools for monitoring the progress and a separate script that can do a full restore to make sure shit works, but that's mostly just doing what you did to make and upload the tarballs backwards.

I'm finding 8 years to be pretty realistic for when I have drive failures, and I did the math when I was buying drives and came to the same conclusion about buying used.

For example, I'm using 16tb drives, and for the Exos ones I'm using, a new drive is like $300 and the used pricing seems to be $180.

If you assume the used drive is 3 years old, and that the expected lifespan is 8 years, then the used drive is very slightly cheaper than the new one.

But the 'very slight' is literally just about a dollar-per-year less ($36/drive/year for used and $37.50/drive/year for new), which doesn't really feel like it's worth dealing with essentially unwarrantied, unknown, used and possibly abused drives.

You could of course get very lucky and get more than 8 years out of the used, or the new one could fail earlier or whatever but, statistically, they're more or less equally likely to happen to the drives so I didn't really bother with factoring in those scenarios.

And, frankly, at 8 years it's time to yank the drives and replace them anyways because you're so far down the bathtub curve it's more like a slip n' slide of death at that point.

The real pro move is to learn to just roll your eyes, and walk away.

Or block them, and walk away.

It makes certain angry-on-the-internet types so so SO mad when you just shrug and ignore them, but alas, it's a lost art since everyone likes being mad about everything all the time now.

Yeah I've been noticing that. It's probably a case of it being cheaper for them than games, but I've also noticed they've not yet done a cycle where it's ONLY freemium stuff, at least.

Next week, for example, is an Apex skin and a game. If it was JUST the skin I'd probably be less gruntled, but as it is, I find it hard to get too upset that I'm only getting 1 free game instead of 2.

Well, shit.

Hopeful that Apple doesn't wreck anything, but I mean, they've not always bought software and NOT wrecked it horribly.

Guess we'll see.

Excessively patient. I've noticed there's basically a 50/50 chance of any game I find interesting showing up for free on Epic eventually, so I mean, fine, I'll wait a couple of years to save $60. Why pay for something that'll eventually be given to you, paid for by some vulture capitalist's dragon horde?

I take some of their money, get a free game: win/win.

...at this point, I'm pretty sure my Epic games library is way bigger than my Steam library, simply from the 3-5 free games a month that Epic tosses at you, of which like 1/3rd are actually pretty good.

I mean, I can understand why he'd think that, given that he's certainly never caused one.

Sure, but it's redundant. You can easily infer that simply from the 'conservative commentator' bit.

Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Yeah the first run backfill was noisy, but I'm inclined to leave it there unless it gets just way too loud. If it starts making the feed just noise and junk it'll get yanked.

My immediate reaction is 'because they don't have to be'. Laptops are very very bright these days because the expectation you'll be using them outside and thus need to be able to overwhelm the sun.

Desktop monitors don't have to/aren't used like that, and so there's no reason to have them be as bright.

Also, the brighter the monitor the more color will start deviating from being completely accurate, and something like a studio display is aimed at creators who want it to be perfectly accurate, so that's likely another part of it.

I don't think I'd buy an Apple monitor mostly due to them being priced in a way that really makes no sense: for what your wife is doing I'd look at the ASUS ProArt monitors. They're focused on accuracy and creator workflows, come calibrated, and for the price difference you could buy three or four of them instead....

It's a bot from the programming.dev peeps: https://github.com/programming-dot-dev/rss-bot

$30 to not have to deal with Windows 11 for another year feels like the deal of the century.

I love how they're like 'but you won't get new features!'. They may have still not figured out that nobody cares about 'new features' being stuffed into the OS, but I guess you can't have everything.

Added it, since it was an option. It uh, made a lot of posts, so you weren't kidding about lots of free games.

Yeah. A space exploration game that has absolutely zero reason for you to explore anything.

I'm not sure if I'm more sad or angry that this is the best a company with no budget limits and no outside meddling can make.

100% Fortnite, since I'm too cheap to buy games or pay for yet another subscription service these days.

(Especially since about half of anything I've wanted off Gamepass has shown up for free on Epic Games a couple of months later or has been absolute slop - looking at you, Starfield.)

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This is a luxury brand staple: it engenders loyalty because it makes the whales "better".

You can't buy certain luxury bags or watches or cars or whatever unless you have spent a giant pile of money on crap you may or may not want as the price of being allowed the special sales.

Same thing.

The M4 lineup is kinda confusing mess.

I'd take a look at the chart at https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/10/apples-m4-m4-pro-and-m4-max-compared-to-past-generations-and-to-each-other/

If it were me, and this was the main workload, I'd seriously look at the $1600 Mac Mini with the 10 performance core variant.

But that said, ANY M4 is going to be so much faster than that 2016 laptop that she'll be happy.

People being the people making the games.

Apple's love affair with Metal and the utter lack of Vulkan support for ages on Apple silicon slowed down/totally killed anyone porting games.

This really didn't get sorted out until pretty recently, and shit's gotten better in the last six months or a year.

Hopefully it keeps getting ports and such, but it took WAY too damn long to even be in a position for this to start happening.