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  • On my main server: I have my SSD RAID1 ZFS snapshots of my container appdata, VM VHDs and docker image, that is also backed up as a full backup once per night to the RAID10 array, then rsynced to the backup server which then is uploaded to the cloud.

    The data on the RAID is backups, repos or media that I’ve deposited there for an extra copy it for serving via Plex/Jellyfin. I have extra copies of the data, and if I were to lose the array totally, I wouldn’t be pleased, but my personal pictures/videos wouldn’t be in danger.

    I run two back up servers, which both upload to the cloud. One of which takes bare metal images of all my computers (sans servers bulk drives), the other which takes live folders.

    This is more due to convenience so that I can pull a bare metal image to restore a device, or easily go find a file with versioning online if necessary on both accounts.

    As a wise man said, you can never have too many backups.


  • I had a recruiter after me hard one time. They had a company they were trying to grow and had already plucked away a couple of guys from my team.

    He offered what he thought was an aggressive offer based on what the other guys said they were making.

    I asked about WFH, he said the company preferred people in the office to collaborate. This was my third time asking this, the first two times I told him this was a non-starter, and this offer was to try to go above and beyond that to sway me with dollar signs.

    I laid out the costs that were involved: commuting, car, gas, childcare, lunch, etc. and how his aggressive offer still had me coming up behind, and that’s before I even take into account time and comfort lost.

    He’s called back again twice, and it’s the same freaking question, “any movement on work from home?”

    We all know the answer.




  • Complaining about downvotes is a sure fire way to get more downvotes.

    But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the information you’re presenting, so much as the way you’re presenting it.

    There’s tons of emotion around news and facts these days and people just want it cut straight without the fat. Don’t tell us how to feel, or why we should feel that way, tell us what the facts are and we’re grown ups, we’ll put our big people clothes on and make up how we feel about it on our own.

    Any emotion you put into it is likely to undo any good points you may have made. There’s a time for that, this isn’t it.




  • They were already making their own ARM processors in their phones/tablets/watches and even implemented in some of their pro line of laptops as a security processor. The evolution to make their own computer processors seemed inevitable, especially considering Intel’s products were failing to meet battery and thermal wants from Apple.

    It felt exciting for people who pay attention to tech, but it was no more exciting than their prior switch from PowerPC procs to Intel, or from third party ARM in iPhones to their own procs.

    It’s still very on brand for Tim Cook as well it allows the company to control even more of the design and manufacturing, which stabilizes their supply flow.

    The company also had prior experience with the aforementioned PPC to x86 move and their Rosetta translation layer, which they implemented this time around with Rosetta 2 to great success as well, making most things run near native during the devs switch for their binaries.


  • I think this could have been smelled in the water for a long while. Tim Cook was trusted to steer the rudder but his specialty is supply chain management, and I don’t think anyone can say he’s done a bad job.

    But. On the R&D side I don’t think people could say he’s done a great job.

    The ideas have dried up. When you go “safe” at CEO you make money, but you limit your ceiling, which, once again, with Apple is already breaking the mold.

    Consumer electronics is saturated. There is little to no breakthrough there anymore.

    Evolution is outside that, but outside that might not be in Tim Cook or Apple’s executive suite’s realm anymore.



  • That’s not how this works at all.

    There are plenty of ways to deal with this, and issue a death penalty to the corporation while not punishing the workers:

    • Forced turnover of executives and board members (with jail time and high % fines), corporate watchdog for x amount of years

    • Dissolve the mega-corp into smaller corporations, and/or force all subsidiaries into a planned disengagement from parent company

    • Bail-out in the form of state ownership by government buying majority stake

    In any of the above, or even in a complete mega-corp dissolution the demand doesn’t disappear. If you want to have the argument that these “oh so wonderful stewards of business” are the reason people have jobs in the first place, you can’t ignore that demand is the reason those very same executives have jobs too.

    If they tear it down, someone will build something else to replace it.