Backblaze is a great backup solution. They publish drive stats and even show you the hardware they use.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/storage-pod

We used to use Malwarebytes Corporate Edition at work.

One afternoon all of our web servers stopped responding to traffic on port 443. I could RDC into the servers, and I could ping them, but most traffic wasn't being passed properly.

Despite not having made any changes, I did everything I could think of to get them to work. I tried moving them to different switches, different static IPs, Wireshark showed packets flowing, but no web traffic.

I left the office. It was around 8 PM and I had been banging my head on my desk trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

I came back around 10 PM, mind clear and stomach topped off. I worked a few more minutes, then heard the Outlook ding.

Mass email from Malwarebytes CEO. Bad update. Blocked all class B IP addresses by mistake (guess which class we used). Mea culpa. So sorry. New update fixes things.

I immediately uninstalled MWB CE and boom. Services restored.

The next week we got our licenses refunded by our VAR and we never used that product again.

This got me too once. I was in the server room replacing old 110 punch panels/blocks with 8P8C connections. I lost track of cable connections, a mistake I have learned from, and I looped a patch cable into the same switch. Within moments the entire network went down.

Forty-five minutes later and we figured out the loop.

Another lesson learned: HP Procurve switches did not have Spanning Tree enabled by default.

Anyway, mistakes happen, especially in IT. It's all part of the learning experience. My boss was the coolest, chillest guy in the world so I learned and moved on.

Link to tweet: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/1203485521151959040

Yooooge. So big that he can carry all of Bret's and Squeegee's beer. (whatever the fuck his name was)

Just give me a grumpy guy behind the counter at an Ammu-Nation.

I bet that AI machine gets capped soon.

Welcome to the fediverse!

Definitely search for the communities you are interested in and click subscribe. There may be several similar communities on different Lemmy instances with different rules or vibes. Also, if the subscribe button says subscribe pending, you can ignore that.

Lemmy is amazing to be a "knight of new" as it were because the cross-talk, noise, bots, etc are just not there like they are in reddit. I've found communities I never would have known about.

Keep in mind Lemmy is very actively developed. If you do end up staying with Lemmy consider tossing a few dollars to the devs. I've always found the devs courteous and approachable when I've encountered a bug.

The small penis rule was referenced in a 2006 dispute between Michael Crowley and Michael Crichton. Crowley alleged that after he wrote an unflattering review of Crichton's novel State of Fear, Crichton included a character named "Mick Crowley" in the novel Next. The character is a child rapist, described as being a Washington, D.C.–based journalist and Yale graduate with a small penis.

Power move

You're good. Being a smaller engine though, I wouldn't go much past that.

Did your computer lose its bios settings lately? Check to see if it's set to ahci and not raid if using a single, non-raid disk.

You can try some of the suggestions at https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-can-we-fix-this-no-irq-handler-for-vector-4175692269/, too.

Good luck

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