Agreed. Buying my first NAS was a game changer. Even if I also use it to store ESXi VMs running on a NUC, it's still a pretty basic setup. Overengineering is bad. And about backups, I have a USB drive plugged into the NAS. Nothing fancy but that works (and I should buy a second USB drive to store offline and rotate the disk). Anyone being reminded about LTO backups?

Exactly this, I often say to friend "What's your time worth?". If you're unable to do something, work, get paid and pay someone else to do what you're unable to do yourself. If I want to archives tens of GB of photo scans, I prefer to store locally because I know how to do it myself and not willing to pay a lot of cash for cloud services. And yes, I have offline / offsite backups.

Since day 1 I've been using Norton Commander (DOS 6.22) and later on its win version. For some reason it kept bugging years ago and I moved to Total Commander. I barely never use built-in Windows Explorer and so am not affected by the news. It's still a great news to flatten learning curve, that's the key selling point of Windows after all. No guru sticker's required to unpack an archive at the proper location keeping the intented parent folder.

Me ! I purchased 50 licenses at work! We used (or maybe it's still used) to exchange technical documents over "packages" produced and ingested by a commercial EDMS software.

IIRC I was already using that with Compaq Pocket PC / ipaq

I too had courses of RPG 4 and COBOL,that was around 2000. I coded a Delphi app to generate fillers for screens in COBOL

Agreed, I never had "MS Office" courses but I use that every day at work. I'm still kinda enjoying migrating some diagrams from Visio to DrawIO embedded in Confluence.

It's also easy to only upgrade selected components, especially increasing RAM and swapping for a better GPU. I consider SSD as standard nowadays, except if moving away from a SATA one (like for a shiny 2TB NVMe).

Exactly this. I however bought a 2nd hand HP tower pc lately. But it is a dual xeon Z820 with 128GB RAM to serve as a home lab ESXi server. I pray that none of its components breaks.

"The keyboard can be programmed with a demo video showing the letters changing from lowercase to capital on the fly." All the way back to 2007 and Art. Lebedev Studio https://www.artlebedev.com/opt...

Came for this comment. This has also gain public fame with Mr Robot.

New favorite phone base for trafficking I guess. Or maybe it's the year of Linux on the phone? Oh wait