Hi!

every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know

happy 2 year anniversary to this exchange

happy 5 year anniversary to this exchange

pants the cat will only accept being petted with the resignation of a resentful dowager. like there's some layers of simmering contempt and sour regret involved. like he's having war flashbacks

you are seven months old

you are not a widow

your husband was not lost at sea

mine-sweeper? is it some sort of a maid game?

i think so

so i'm no huge fan of rideshare and delivery apps, but this? this post?

completely fake. the article linked above thoroughly debunks it.

me abt an idie project online i hated: no i mean like who the fuck am i to judge right i havent made anything i think it had its strengths and like it wasnt for me but for people who like that stuff i think they're really gonna love it i hope they find their audience i wish them all the success in the world for real

me abt big budget media that mildly annoyed me: it was dogggg shitttttt bro everyone involved should be lined up against the wall and shot

the urge to pull some bullshit when carrying my expensive laptop terrifies me

“wheeeewww what if i just tossed it in the air just a little bit hoo hoo hahahahajssa”

and sometimes i can’t help but give in and give it a couple millimeters of air

I've received a wonderful gift in the mail! gigantic dandy!!

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

The sickly evil villainess doesn't have the energy to monologue but if you add her on discord she can text you an outline of her evil plans and why you'll never be able to defeat her.

A recreation of what I saw when I was passing my boss's desk

beastly reminder

Almost. Years ago my computer suddenly stopped working and lost everything on it. Fortunately a relatively recent backup still existed bc of my family, a recent parts switch, and dumb luck. But last year a friend of mine got hacked and lost close to everything he had done creatively in the last 17-ish years. Art. Novels in progress. Entire conlangs. DnD character Sheets. Music he had made. All gone. He never backed any of it up. Few months later I started this habit (or ritual, almost) of drawing a reminder beast any time I would make a full complete backup. In hopes that seeing these things might remind others and myself. (Another factor here is that I am an animator and some of the stuff on my computer took literal years to make. And the film university I go to urges us to take this stuff seriously, too.)

There’s an old saying in the computer world.

That is why you back up your stuff. It isn’t if, it’s when. If it isn’t drive failure, it’s going to be malware, or ransomeware, or a battery that fails and destroys your laptop, or a lightning strike that destroys your system, or a house fire/flood/earthquake, or simple theft of your device, the list is as long as your arm. Someday you WILL have a problem that eats all of your data. Then the only thing that will save your a** will be backups. Personally I have three levels; TimeMachine, back up to the cloud, and a drive that I back everything up to once a month and keep in the fireproof safe.

Back up your stuff.

(That includes your phone and tablet too)

if it’s reaaly important, there’s an old 3-2-1 rule:

3 backups, 2 different mediums, 1 off-site.

2 different mediums was kinda when you could store things on tape, floppies, cds, etc etc as things were changing you may not be able to read one medium, but nowadays everything’s mostly compatible, so on your main computer and an external hard drive, or just another computer in the house is fine. maybe your phone.

1 offsite. this is going to be your “cloud storage” or if you trust someone, you can store it at their place. this is to prevent something like a fire destroying all copies of the data because they were all stored in a single location.

if its not that important just two copies whatever in the cloud is fine. just one backup is 100x better than nothing.