I have to agree... Jodie Whittaker seemed to get a rather raw deal in this. I really liked her in Broadchurch, but I can't help but feel the scripts she's been given, overall, for Doctor Who, have been mediocre at best, with all the brow-beating most of them seem to embrace. Somewhat like while I loved both the Moffatt and Chibnall scripts when they *weren't* showrunners, I pretty much hated their seasons *as* showrunners, maybe aside from Capaldi's run. I'm cautiously optimistic that any more NuWho under Davies will compare favorably with Tennant's tenure, which has been my favorite newer incarnation. Allonns-y!

Job security for me, I guess. And a continued customer for $alcoholvendorofchoice...

It's 2021, and we still have to remind people that RAID is not a backup?!

Every time someone tells me tape is obsolete, and I should just use disks or The Cloud! to do backups, I ask how they intend to make offline backups of up to 3PB of data (it's about 1/3 that used currently, but increasing year on year, and I expect we'll top out in a few) that is currently air-gapped, with an off-site requirement. In terms of rack space, power, and cooling, we can't expand anymore. Tape (mix of LTO-5/6/7/8, currently) is about the only way we can meet our requirements.

In just terms of physical *weight*, disk is impossible. Imagine how much, say, 64 16TB HDDs weigh vs 87 LTO-8 tapes weigh (roughly 1PB each, ignoring the compression factor of 2.5x, which I never actually see), let alone physical volume... Add in the additional mechanical complexities of needing all the control hardware on-board with disk, and things like vibration during transport becomes a major thing.

Let's not forget that, many times in the past, HW RAID has been shown to be... less than ideal, shall we say. So much so, that I wouldn't trust HW RAID further than I can spit, and would rather rely on Linux SW RAID in terms of reliability. Tapes, I can pull as they fill up, and ship offsite. Drives in a RAID array have to all be pulled in tandem, or you break the array (and have to rebuild later, with its own plethora of problems), so it's still significantly less convenient. Space, as well... I can fit 80 12TB tapes in 4U, in an easy to access fashion, but putting 80 HDDs in the same amount of space (maybe outside a Petabox) isn't really doable, especially with power and cooling.

All in all, tape isn't going away anytime soon. Anyone who says otherwise is either deluded, inexperienced, or trying to up-sell something unfit to task...

Yeah, I used KeePassX then moved to KeePassXC on my Linux systems. Android, I use Keepass2Android Offline and/or KeePassDroid, depending on my mood. Moving to sync them via my own infastructure, ever so slowly. Using a free account on a certain popular cloud sync currently, but with the changes they've made over the years, I'd rather be ahead of, than behind, any new major change they make.

I know I recently watched the Peacock-exclusive 30 Rock reunion show, on my Roku. I wonder how I did that, now.

Indeed, I've bought 2 separate sets of lock picks on Amazon. Prime eligible, even. Perfectly legal to own and use in my state, so long as I don't have criminal intent. I've even used them on a fire safe a coworker lost the key to years ago.

I've also toyed with the idea of learning at least basic gunsmithing, to do more than just basic maintenance on my perfectly legal collection of guns (and finally fix one that keeps misfeeding).

Uh, yeah, I did this in the 80s and 90s as a pre-teen and teen, during the summer months. Hell, even into college it wasn't unusual. It's a little harder now, though weekends are a wildcard (this Memorial Day weekend, I think the earliest I went to sleep was about 6am). It's a bit easier these days, with the internet, but between dialup and writing code back then (with whatever stations didn't go off the air at night), it was certainly possible to keep occupied.

I hate to break this to you, but... Linksys has been owned by Belkin since 2013... Somewhat coincidentally, I stopped recommending or buying Linksys gear sometime around 2013... Mostly went with TP-Link gear supported by OpenWRT, but eventually grew tired of trying to find the stuff that was supported, whether or not I had to first downgrade the firmware, install DD-WRT, and *then* install OpenWRT, with somewhat flaky radios.

I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..

Well, at work at least, I have to do a lot of training that, for better or (most likely) worst, requires sitting through an audio track. Being in a cubicle environment, playing the arduous narration for each required training module is a non-starter. I've got earbuds that I (sometimes) listen to when having to do the required training. I should note that where I am, wireless is strictly *not* an option, no BT, nothing. I may disagree with it, and can point out where $parent explicitly supports some wireless options, but I'm at the point where I pick my battles, and this is one that really isn't worth it.

God, I remember watching that on a Sunday night in the late 80s on PBS. After the finale, it was all I and my friends (we all stayed up "late", like 11:30 or so) could talk about on the bus to school that Monday. And it's never been aired where I lived again. Many times, I've been tempted to get a Region 2 DVD player and order the whole series from the UK. Even to this day, that finale haunts me...

The "improved" boot time is lost to me on every reboot, as it takes up to several minutes, once at a login: prompt, to, you know, login. Like it just sits there waiting a random amount of time before completing and giving me a shell prompt.

How would you rate "Rust? Heard of it. Has some interesting concepts, but I haven't had the time to really look into it myself yet"? Because, that's where I'm coming from. I want to look at both Rust and Go, but between work and real life, it's probably not going to happen until I manufacture a real reason to do so...

Honestly, I think I'm going to land on my feet. I'm white, male, heterosexual, no accent (38 of 42 years here), and most friends and coworkers literally had *no* idea I wasn't born here until I started bitching about this. If anything, spend your efforts on all the *other* naturalized citizens who have to overcome things like skin color, accents, etc. They're just as much citizens as me. We're *all* citizens, and should stand together. The fact my parents came from a primarily white country (with no accents), shouldn't factor into it. I'm personally pissed off that me and everyone else in my "graduating class" 20 years ago aren't seen as "real citizens", despite the fact that all of us took the time to a) learn English (ok, the only language I've ever been fluent in), b) learn current civics (I scored highest in HS on that exam, which was amusing), c) took the time and effort to actually take the test and commit to being a citizen instead of just being born into it like so many jack-holes.

I'll be fine. I'm currently disenfranchised, but I'll be fine. Your local bodega owner, taxi driver, or whatever, they'll need your support more than I ever will. But I appreciate your support nonetheless.