CrabAndBroom

Currently I use Borg Backup with Vorta as a GUI. I don't really do anything automated/scheduled, I just back it up manually to an external SSD every few days or so. I pretty much do my whole /home folder, except for a couple of subfolders that aren't really necessary (and Videos, which I back up separately.)

I do eventually want to upgrade to a NAS, but I'm waiting until we move to start setting that up. Also I don't really have an off-site plan yet which I know is bad, but I need to figure that out.

Splitters!

Yeah that's my main issue with them too. I like the idea in theory, but in practice I find it tends to create this weird environment where something's always broken because everything updates on a different schedule and nobody cares if their update breaks anything else.

Yeah that's my interpretation of it too, they had quite a bit of political capital stored up after the election win, and they're spending it on making unpopular choices now, presumably with the intent that by the next election the painful bit will be over and we'll be seeing improvements across the board that they can then campaign on.

I think maybe this also feels weird to a lot of people because they're actually doing stuff and not just using the post-win honeymoon period to fuck about like the Tories usually do.

We went Aldous Huxley when we should have gone Iain M. Banks lol

I think we've still made amazing progress, just in different areas. For example, communication. In the 40s, if you were in the US and needed to contact someone in, say, Australia, the options would either be to send a letter and wait maybe weeks or months for a response, or possibly a prohibitively expensive phone call.

Nowadays you could click two buttons and have a six-hour HD video conversation if you wanted to, essentially for free. And you could send them documents, videos, money, whatever you want basically instantly. Heck, if you really wanted to you could both create realistic 3D avatars and hang out in VR if that's your thing lol

Yeah same here! I had no idea it was that much now.

Especially since

I think I'm in the minority that really didn't like it at all. I thought it started well, but then it hit the first wobble with the

Then by the end when

I was like "for fucks sake."

I don't know why this has become a thing multiple times with this franchise, but I don't want

Just do a regular Aliens film!

House of Leaves feels like reading some sort of forbidden text.

Yeah V and VI (even even IV I think) are still perfectly fine and playable, so I'm happy to wait pretty much indefinitely lol.

I literally had one on Friday! Long story short: mine was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.

I had a wisdom tooth removed a couple of years ago and that sucked but it was bearable - it hurt for about two weeks, but Tylenol made it manageable. So I was expecting something along the same lines here. The actual procedure itself was fine - the scraping out of the inside of the tooth is a weird sensation, but not painful 'cause they freeze you up. Then afterwards, once the freezing wore off it hurt for about three hours and I was expecting it to suck for a while. But I had a Tylenol and a nap, and when I woke up it wasn't hurting at all and it's been fine ever since.

Other people have told me that they had pain for a week or so, so your mileage may vary, but yeah for me it was literally just a few hours of discomfort and then back to normal. Nowhere near as big a deal as I thought it was going to be.