it’s up to whoever comes after trump to mend bridges with europe, it’s a waste of diplomatic resources maintaining relations with trumps america

Imagine if the republicans get wiped out in both houses and the dems have enough seats to overcome filibusters and make constitutional amendments.

Steam is DRM but is invisible enough that i haven’t pirated a game since i was a teenager.

As always Piracy is a service issue

I may be wrong but my understanding was 3 copies of the data, across two storage formats, with one offsite

You can mitigate against HDD failure with RAID and backups.

I have two 8TB HDDs in a RAID1 configuration. if one dies i can remove the dead one and add a new one to the array and the data will sync back across from the good drive. I also have two 10TB drives in rotation going to offsite storage. every now and again i backup my server to one of these drives, take it to the place i store them and swap them over.

Only thing i’m missing from the 321 rule is different mediums, considering the amount of data i’m dealing with though the cost of backing up to tape though was prohibitative

I dont like having DVDs everywhere.

if they offered DRM free paid downloads so i could give them my money and just host it myself i probably would give them my money.

but they don’t, so i sail

too far, i fear

I’d like to see Ukraine get Crimea back but it’s never going to happen. not without russias complete collapse at least

QA Manager. I started out as a test analyst, then taught myself to code with JS, C#, Python and a little bit of C++. moved into a test automation engineer role then a QA engineer at a different company before being promoted to manager

Sometimes it’s about learning to fix things more than it is about fixing the thing.

I regularly just take shit apart when it fails even if i have no intention of fixing it.

Yup, i was given a mug by my gfs family when we visited them in their country. it was a bit touristy, had the name of the country and some decals and stuff.

It’s a pure white mug now

You like looking at the back of a piece of electrical tape?

fr, i remember being mind blown when bitcoin hit £240.

If i had had some at that point i probs would have cashed out.

My old housemate lost like half a dozen btc in the Mt.Gox collapse

hasnt that already happened with a data breach? i remember reading something about it

830 days since manjaro last fucked up. I’ve been using manjaro for a while. other than some hiccups i’d expect of a rolling release distro i’ve been fairly happy with it

till the power goes out

what’s up with manjaro?

Even in the UK they have put Gulf of America.

The UK Government doesn’t recognize that name and have officially stated they wont (at least in the short term)

You need money to live in woods?

Move to the woods and avoid the internet. you’ll feel a lot better