That’s been my experience as well, if it’s the same vendor, just swap and go unless the old one is so old that it uses different driver software

I’ve been using windows since 3.1, and never had an issue swapping graphics cards. I agree that DDU being sometimes required is silly - vendors should be providing proper uninstallers, or at least officially sponsor/ship DDU.

They’re ripcord, show some respect!

Kinda like how DARE taught us what all the drugs looked like, how to spot fakes, and how to find the dealers?

Could be accurate if (lol) they’re doing something that a properly empowered FTC/SEC/DOJ would be very interested in looking into.

That still fulfils the offsite requirement of 3-2-1, so you’re still good there. If you both have a NAS, then you can be each other’s “cloud provider” as well.

Which is the reason for the local backup on my NAS - which is also in a RAID 5 configuration and can survive one drive failure with no loss of data, as well as the copies stored on the original devices. There would need to be a series of unfortunate events for me to lose everything.

Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.

That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

three digital condoms

Funnily enough, three real condoms are less effective than one.

That made me think of Jethro Tull - Aqualung

I built a new PC early October, literally 2 weeks later RAM prices went nuts… so glad I pulled the trigger when I did

All of the major gaming youtubers have made at least a couple videos featuring Linux over the last couple months, which is definitely a big change from the windows-only (except sometimes servers) content of years past.

Conventions bring both extremes… It’s either eye-watering B.O. or eye-watering cologne/perfume

These should be available mandatory at LANs.

FTFY

TOR is easy enough to set up that if you know how to install a program on your computer and run it, you’re good to go. It’s not the ideal way to run TOR, and is still somewhat insecure, but can be done in a few clicks.

Back in the early 00’s, the amount of people learning how to download pirated music safely, arrange and burn a CD with it skyrocketed. Fast forward a few years and people with no real computer skills were learning how to rip and burn DVDs.

I wouldn’t underestimate the potential of people with motivation to circumvent an oppressive system.

Three times the price? Where you get train tickets that cheap? cries in VIA Rail

having that for years now

since abaout the late 90’s to early 00’s. KDE 1 released with virtual desktops, and from what I can tell, Klipper either released with it, or a few years later

At least you’re honest… you don’t have a good sense of humour :)

Nearly every comic I’ve seen that “insults everyone mercilessly” just rehashes the same tired jokes, I consider that extremely lazy. I don’t buy into your senitivity BS, people are just tired of the same garbage “I’m not racist, I hate everyone equally” humour.

My previous router (ASUS) crapped out at about 30 clients on 2.4GHz. New one (TP-Link Archer) is doing fine with somewhere between 30 and 40 depending on whether some clients connect to 2.4/5/6GHz, and about 50 clients total once I count wired and docker containers.

I’m using KRdp for the first time in several years today and am BLOWN AWAY by the quality of the connection. It is in virtually every regard as good as Windows’ RDP.