Also DRMed, at least they were last time. Which is unusual for Humble. Thankfully they offer the tech book bundles DRM-free.

I don’t back up my drives, I replicate them.

There is a lesson about unnoticed data damage in someone’s future.

What happens when a software bug, ransomware, or hardware problem destroys or corrupts that data over days or months?

This Lemmy community has a great set of intro Linux lessons to get you started:

https://programming.dev/c/linuxupskillchallenge

The scheduling command for a one-time future run is the “at” command.

I’ve had some luck establishing the bottleneck using strace on both the sender side and receiver side. This will show if the sending rsync is waiting on local reads or remote writes and if the receiving rsync is waiting on network reads or local writes.

This helps find the specific resources to check.

Original video:

https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/7322301313134415134

They are DRMed, unlike the technical books I normally get from Humble. I should have read the fine print better and not believed the “works on all devices” summary. I trusted Humble and learned a good $18 lesson.

Can DRM be removed? Sure. But that’s not why I buy books from Humble.

Official announcement from Insulet:

https://www.omnipod.com/fsn-11-2023

https://www.omnipod.com/fsn-11-2023

Yikes.

Reminds me of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods.

https://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/bhgsalad/index.html

If you enjoyed Guards! Guards! Why not follow up with the rest of “The Watch” books?

See this for some possible reading orderings:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0_(cropped).jpg

Very sparse population. But why is the population so sparse? Here’s a good answer: https://youtu.be/cOoFsehit6U

(Geography video about the history of this area.)