Not sure trying to attract people and lowering barriers to entry is the best thing to do at this point. We’ll have the same dearth of quality content and more n00bs to get bored and post memes.

The slow, hard road is the way. Post stuff. High effort stuff. Respond, don’t just upvote. Make this place worth signing up for.

WRT 3-2-1 I’m only part way there for my personal stuff, I haven’t been willing to invest in anything offsite yet but gained some peace of mind anyway. Offsite backup for the most important stuff is in my future for sure. FWIW here’s what I have, and what I did:

In order of size: 1000+ movies, a couple dozen TV series I may want to revisit, something like 10000 songs (mostly in albums), and a slew of scanned family photos and genealogy documents as well as offline ancestry databases.

In order of importance: family photos and genealogy stuff, music, movies, TV shows.

I ended up with a primary NAS, Synology 4 disk with one disk redundancy, and a second older Synology set up the same way that serves as backup. Each with battery powered UPS. The older NAS has degraded twice over about 12 years, and each time I popped another disk in and a couple of days later all was good. They do scheduled data scrubbing and I subscribe to an inexpensive SMS service that texts me when that gets done or if anything else happens.

I don’t use any backup or replication software. Anything on there started on either my desktop or my wife’s laptop, and we just copy it twice. Except the TV shows and the one-and-done Netflix movies, they just go to the primary and I assess later if they are in need of backup.

Hope that’s useful in some way.

Enshittification in its most literal and obvious form. And the author was either kind, or very very lucky, to get any useful search results at all in less than an hour of scrolling.

Looks to me like the Wuben A1. That’s a $900 light with four SBT90.2 emitters, hits 20,000 lumens and throws for a mile and a half at turn-on in turbo.

Oh and the battery pack hold eight 21700 batteries.

I’m the same way, nothing but black or gray with different buttons to tell them apart.

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Web 3.1 for Workgroups?

I grudgingly admire the way the 3D wraparound tile was done. I mean it’s horrible, but it’s perhaps the best possible way to accomplish this particular version of horrible.

Yeah I’m sure there are plenty of people who have the sense to think it through like you did, it’s just that I encounter the other type a couple times a week and felt like removed about it.

Back-in-only spaces with the arrows pointed accordingly is sounding more and more like a superior solution.

Lots of people with sound, logical explanations of why it’s better and easier but nobody talking about, with the common angled parking lots these days, how you then end up pulling out the opposite direction of everyone else and going the wrong way down a one way lane or doing a u-turn and basically fucking everything up for anyone else.

I suppose the “best” way would be to distribute the big communities over different instances, like one instance gets “pics”, another gets “memes”, someone else gets “news”, etc. But of course that will never happen.

My biggest problem is how they’ve become seemingly hostile toward people who remember how customizable Firefox was, and just want to revert the most annoying UI changes. Not only removing options from the menus, but then after workarounds surface actually going in later and stripping useful stuff out of about:config. Don’t understand.

Yo

Twin Peaks GLaDOS test with me.

I want to say Clare Torrey regarding what she did with Pink Floyd in Great Gig in the Sky but she does have a career of her own. Just not terribly well known as far as I can tell.