What if my backup is just files and there’s nothing to restore?
Like say I take my existing drives, full of totally working media, and duplicate them, use the originals as a backup and the new drives as the active.
Does that count as a backup? No restoration involved.
Depends if you can stand to wear a wool turtleneck (over another shirt that keeps the wool only touching your neck).
I can’t stand any turtleneck, personally, for exactly the same reason I can’t do tags. It’s there touching me, and it feels wrong but won’t go away, and the wrongness bothers me. Even super fluffy soft fabrics are wrong on my neck.
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I’ve played enough video games to know there’s either some valuable quest item in there, or a really good joke about digging in the toilet for treasures. Zero other options.
Free to go, maybe, but not free to go through. Plenty of property damage to pay for because fuck you and your skin color.
She has to pay for the pleasure of being stopped and abused. Insurance almost certainly won’t cover that.
If true, that definitely assumes it’s built on a slab foundation or into a basement.
Where I’m from, where full basements are the norm and slab foundations are mostly for commercial properties, it would be entirely above the foundation (first floor is at least 5 foot above the basement floor) and have no impact whatever on sealing.
You might be interested in the way brothers: a tale of two sons uses their controls. Each stick controls one of the two characters. It’s not exactly groundbreaking, but it certainly is different.
It’s pretty heavily socially stigmatized, however. If anyone knew you were pregnant and then suddenly you aren’t and there’s no baby, questions get asked and judgement and rumors spread like wildfire, especially in smaller towns.
My parents used to say “I can’t wait until you have one just like you. Then you’ll understand how difficult you are to live with.”
So I got sterilized.
And they were surprised for some reason.
You’ve missed out on “great” stuff like the time every semi-pro player on the ice threw gloves down and started brawling before the first puck drop of the game, due to an old rivalry that likely had nothing to do with any of the players on the teams.
The penalty boxes didn’t even have standing room. Glorious because of how silly it was.
I’d be fine with fighting dying off, as I’m sure it makes some kids not want to play who otherwise would, but at least a lot of the pro stuff does stop the fights these days, so we are getting there…
The only windows pc I still have is my laptop, which has touchscreen and fingerprint scanner. I’m sure both of those things can be worked around (most distros seem capable of touch support at any rate) but I genuinely don’t know what I’m doing trying to make that happen so it stays for now. I use it for one and only one task, so it’s not the absolute worst but I’d like to be rid of it anyway because omfg why does it need updates every single time I go to use it??
My other three computers are on Ubuntu (gasp the horrors!) It’s what I started with back in 2018, and Debian is the only base I actually know any commands for even if it isn’t very many. Plus it’s stable and does what I want out of the box. Except it didn’t register the finger print scanner when I tried. Maybe it would with a bunch of tweaking, idk.
This is why I don’t use them.
The paint in my living room looks diarrhea brown and corpse gray under warm light. It’s purple and blue, and there are a lot of windows so I can’t plan for warm light as a default like I can in bedrooms. Daylight bulbs keep the color what it should be.
Another 20-60 minutes pass
My energy level has cratered into an uncomfortable jitter of cosmic impotence and my stomach hurts like it has never contained matter, but the thought of filling it with something other than more coffee makes me violently ill.
And the worst part is the cheap 100% silicone caulk that is useful for 10 billion different things is no longer cheap! Used to be about $1-3/tube and now it’s $6-14/tube.
I used that stuff for everything, especially as an adhesive. Not anymore 😭
It’s one of the few foods I can fully indulge. I want to eat two thousand of everything.
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Fun fact about phobias!
You can frequently cure them with pills and a truly slight bit of effort!
Propranolol, a beta blocker that has been in use since the 60s mostly for blood pressure control, has few notable negative side effects, but it has the absolutely -lovely- side effect of blocking fear signals from the amygdala if you have the stones to expose yourself to your triggers while taking it. This exposure coupled with a totally not over-reacting nervous system, can mostly or totally cure phobias.
I watched a documentary about it, where they used it solely in conjunction with exposure therapy (not constantly taking the med), and they had amazing results on common fears like spiders and heights. I realized I had an old prescription, and went “well fuck, why not try to cure my social anxiety? That’s basically a phobia, anyway!” And so I started taking it again instead of the med I was on for blood pressure. The effect happens at doses too low to be noticeable if you don’t need the pressure reduction, but it also works when you have blood pressure doses.
Anyway after about a month of taking it and living life as normal I realized yep, it worked. I don’t panic about going out anymore.
So hey, if you have an irrational fear of something, talk to your doctor.
Here is a probably biased bit of info about it and how it works (it was the best I could find without doing tons of digging for the specific study on phobias, which used 40mg), direct from the people who make it.
My first one, which was downtown, did the exact same thing, but didn’t even have enough parking for the people with passes, so everyone parked juuuuuuuuuust off campus and didn’t pay. All the houses within a 3 block radius were owned by either faculty or people who rented them to students, so they didn’t care at all. The only students who really used the lots were either living on campus and had to pay to store the vehicle anyway, or disabled people who didn’t have to pay.
The second one I transferred to, however, was amazing. Every building could be accessed via tunnels, and was set up like a wheel with spokes so each building connected to the center as well as its neighboring buildings, iirc. You could navigate the entire campus without going outside (Midwest winters). Every building also had a huge parking lot nearby, which was free because the campus was not close to anything but residential housing; campus was completely surrounded by conservation study acreage, as ecological sciences were very important there. Busses came mostly as scheduled. It was a dream of a place to go to school, honestly.
I disagree that violence taints your soul permanently.
This depends upon your own morals, personal justifications, and probably a ton of other factors.
I think the idea is that it’s something you are going to have to live with, one way or another. You might hurt an innocent by accident, do more damage than intended (most people would struggle to live with having killed someone, for example), or even harm yourself irreparably. You might cause people to look at you differently, you might have the wrong information, you might change the course of your life permanently.
Violence is a very complicated subject, but perpetrators of it are, indeed, always marked in some way by it, just like every other experience you have.
Sure, if my active drives died after this swap, and I had to restore from the old, now backup, drive, I’d be back at the operational state I was at the time of the backup.
That tracks.
It still doesn’t run anything tho. It’s just a drive. It doesn’t house an os or anything, just files that aren’t restricted in any way.