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Over a decade ago my cousins advised me on Facebook that “they had the guns” and “they knew where I live”. I’ve had to block almost all of that side of the family.

We are a state and a commonwealth.

Yep. It’s a choice Apple users make^[1] when they choose Apple.

Well, I’d say time and place, but also phrasing. It’s a joke I’ve seen made workable a few times elsewhere, but this was definitely not it. hehe

It was awesome that she came to Colonial Williamsburg to speak. We weren’t the first or only spark in the Revolution, but important bits of it were happening here. I’m also amused as this article gives part of the story - CW is a living history museum; it’s also where it happened. Downtown Williamsburg is slightly northwest of where it was, because the original area of Williamsburg is now CW. Streets are public but closed to traffic during the day. It’s more than a mile wide and half a mile tall area of original colonial buildings along with many reconstructed. Nearly every individual building has a name and history. But yes, it’s also the largest ourdoor museum in North America. :)

Yeah, it’s exactly the type of joke I would normally make, but same… I happened to think it through and thought better of it. lol

This is one reason why I feel it’s necessary to ‘torture’ my cat with pettins sometimes. I feed her, she can deal with a bit of unsolicited pettins sometimes. Especially because she purrs and only tries to get away some of the time. :)

Sic semper tyrannis

Don’t you be stealing Virginia’s state motto!!! ;-)

(Even if it does belong to us all! How dare you!) :)

Alright, I can’t argue too strongly about those statements being investigated.

How about all the times I’ve seen MAGA people make threats like that and worse? Crickets? Thought so.

Oh, I thought that was the… just… regulat step. hehe.

I guess for some sort of vaguely-serious discussion^[1], without doing any research, I think Jesus / Jesus Christ has stably evolved to Gee, with some variants like Gee Whiz being pretty common. I think Gee Willikers was more common around the TV Batman era and so now it’s less said straight and more said ironically. heh. I can’t think of any other common “Gee [something]”… maybe “Geezie Kreezie”, but I’ve only heard that from Suzy^[2] Izzard, so not sure if that’s common or not. lol

It definitely got short; I wonder if we’d count a second word as it getting longer, or a second word replacing “Christ”. These are the types of inconsequential discussions I love. :)

How about you clarify what you mean, because right now, ambiguity implies that you think black people are apes. And if you’re trying to make the joke that “all humans are primates”, it’s probably not the best time, or at least you’d better do it carefully to make sure it’s funny and not cringe.

edit: Brief perusal of your comment history implies that it’s not very likely you were going for a super-racist joke; probably the “all humans” thing. Maybe rework it a bit? :)

Well, your English is much better than my Eastern European. :) No clue you weren’t a native English speaker, so there’s that <3

The post-step is “Geezie willikers!” :)

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Considering the origin is “Jesus”, “Jee” is technically closer spelling than “Gee”. Not that I have a dog in this race.

Are you… just talking about stuff like pictures and videos and important documents? I mean, I would have thought the context was clear that that’s not really what’s being discussed. But if not, then sure, if you just have files backed up, then all you need to worry about is making sure you have enough copies of that as you need to not lose it.

Hmm. I’d better explain that.

Anywhere you have data that exists in one place, it is a matter of time before it dies. Who knows how long it’ll be, but it will eventually die.

If you have data in two places, then when it dies in one of those places, as long as it also hasn’t died in the other place, you have one copy and it will eventually die unless you replicate it somewhere else.

And many people find that when they go to read those burnded discs or read that backup external drive - oops, it’s damaged or dead. And then that data is gone.

So for unimportant things, a single backup somewhere is probably fine. But is that backup in your house with your computer that it’s also on? If your house burns, those two places are gone and your data is gone. Is that worth the tiny risk? Up to you. You know how much yo ucare about your data.

If you really want to make sure something valuable like important documents and family pictures, then ideally you want at least one copy offsite. If it’s important, it’s no bad thing to have two copies of it offsite along with perhaps one backup locally so it’s convenient. While you don’t need ten copies of data, it’s surprising how quickly 1-2 copies can go bad at the same time, or one goes bad and you don’t replace it and another goes bad and… quickly you run the risk of data loss.

For a home user who doesn’t want to lose their files,

That’s not the topic at hand, which one might’ve been able to tell from context clues.

two local backups and a cloud one.

That is a pretty good minimal setup. Not disparaging, that’s better than probably 95% if not more like 99% of people do.

Just give me anxiety?

No, you’re the one in a conversation that’s really not about your type of situation.

We’re talking about businesses who have servers - internet servers, internal servers. These run software. They have databases with largre amounts of data. They have programs that have lots of settings, configured in various ways. Servers set up to run services on the LAN and/or WAN and/or across the internet.

On your home computer, you can reinstall Windows, install Office, install Adobe, all the other software you use. And you can take the annoying time to re-customize everything to get it set up to your liking. Then copy all your documents over. You won’t have everything ready-to-go unless you use a fancy backup and restore method (that starts to touch on the subject being discussed here - that restore is not guaranteed unless you’ve tested it. It’s amazing how often that goes wrong), but it’s okay, you have time.

In a corporate environment, if something breaks and you need to restore that data and software, you need it up and running ASAP.

Now, you’d think it would be as simple as getting the hardware, installing the OS, installing the software, and restoring the data - but that’s not necessarily the case. Not the same version of the software? Data formatting might’ve changed. Settings might’ve changed. Does every version of everything work together? Underlying pieces f the system are different? Might cause things to break.

I won’t get into the technical details beyond that, but the point is that we’re not talking about just some pics and docs.

So that’s th egenesis of the misunderstandings here. It’s a wholly different topic than what you’re dealing with.

But yeah, for you, you’ve got a good backup system going. I personally have two different cloud providers for the data I want to keep the most, but that’s not all the pics and such, just for a subset of it.

Does the newly set up environment exactly match the previous? Same software versions?

And when the restoration of that data fails?

Are you being willfully ignorant or obstinate? Or do you not understand the concept that even with the data there, restoration of that data can fail in many ways?

A couple of times I needed to restore sites from backup, it failed. Not because the data wasnt there. Heh

Having the data is useless when the restoration process fails, which it can do due numerous reasons.

But why the crab cakes? The rest of it makes sense, but… what?

Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons

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