This was awful in Fallout 4, but a lot of fun with friends in Fallout 76

Weird. It's almost like synthetic content is less fulfilling to humans than friendship.

I assume that they do not have regular access to medical care, especially if they are immigrant workers.

Anecdotally, I have chronic kidney disease that would not have shown up on routine bloodwork / urinalysis. Only after multiple acute episodes did I get a biopsy for a diagnosis, and even that took a year of bouncing between specialists in a big city with good healthcare.

I have a server in a closet with a few hard drives attached to it. All of my devices connect to it via Tailscale.

I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic.

Every night, I back the data up to a Hetzner storage box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ which is only ~$3.50/mo USD for 1TB of data.

I have three "tiers" of data for myself:

1. Important things I care about: these go into a folder that gets backed up to Hetzner (examples include photos in Immich, code pushed to Forgejo, etc)

2. Smaller files I sort-of care about: these usually just go into Proton Drive (examples include design documents)

3. Large files I don't care about losing: these go into a folder on a hard drive that is not backed up (examples include media)

This took me about a day to set up and I just check in on it every once in a while. Once a year I will do a practice disaster recovery run.

What does your practice recovery run look like? I've got backup set up, but I don't know how to best test it. For example, do you restore everything from Hetzner, or some random sample?

I don't like these staged backup for these reasons. Every step (e.g. NAS backup to Hetzner) can cause an error, so adding steps increases the probability of error. Personally, I just back up directly from my machines to a local storage server and to a cloud object storage with object lock (so that e.g. ransomware encryption or attempts to remove the data do not work).

What cloud object storage do you use? I went with Hetzner because I was optimizing for price.

Right now, I just restore everything to a new folder and make sure that I can stand up Immich, Forgejo, etc. again and point it there and have it working. DB backups for Immich are handled automatically, but for Forgejo I had to write a custom script that does a dump of the DB every night. I'm not sure I could do a partial Immich/Forgejo restore since it would be missing so many files.

No better time to consider going vegetarian or cutting out red meat, even one day a week can make a huge difference.

And then they pause for effect like they just dropped a huge truth bomb

Deleting Facebook, Instagram, X (Formerly Twitter), and TikTok was the best decision I have ever made. I thought that I would really miss them but I just don't.

If they are owned and operated by mega-corporations like Alphabet, they are not public

If they were taking the bus in Tacoma, it would be owned and operated by King County Metro which is publicly owned and uses roads that are publicly owned. A great deal of the buses are electric or zero emissions, using electricity from Seattle City Light which is publicly owned.

Authoritarianism has a funny way of not giving you a choice in the matter.

Needing large context window is a skill issue