It's unconscionable that a non-profit entity with a CTO making nearly $180k / year failed to plan for this. He needs to be fired right now. Having only a single copy of your data, managed by someone else? Further, when Nine PBS went to renew their contract with OSS and failed to get a response -- for over a month -- knowing that they would lose access to their data if the contract was not renewed, he chose to do nothing instead of instantly start downloading all of the data, still having access to the data at that time.

Louis Rossmann did a video digging into this. Nine PBS's CEO makes $300k / year, and the rest of the C-suite makes good 6-figure incomes, too. They also showed significant profit on investment income for four of the last five years. This was investment income, not even the donations they received. Yet they didn't take even a fraction of a percent of that income to buy a NAS and create even one local copy of their data. They saw this slow-motion disaster coming and just let it happen, and then went and cried to a judge about it.

Glad to help. I've had many vaccines, but none of the covid ones. I've also never been tested for covid, even when they were pressuring people to go get tested even if you feel fine because one of the biggest symptoms of this super deadly disease is that you feel just find and have no symptoms. So now I'm about to enter my sixth winter of "severe illness and death."
Meanwhile, of the people in my life who all took the new covid vaccines:
* One uncle, who's cancer had been in remission for years, suddenly had it come roaring back, stage four, and was dead within months.
* My father who was also a cancer survivor developed a new cancer that took his life.
* My mother who had never had heart issues suddenly started having all sorts of heart problems that have landed her in the hospital multiple times. She's said she will no longer take any more of the shots.
* My sister had had some bad reactions and has also said she will no longer take any more of the shots. Interestingly, both she and my mother hassled my brother-in-law for not taking the shots, and he's been just fine.
* A co-worker's wife has developed all sorts of mysterious health issues that has destroyed her quality of life. Doctors are unable to figure out what is wrong with her, and she works in a hospital.
* My neighbor's daughter, a young gal, had a miscarriage.
* Another young gal I know also had a miscarriage and has developed some auto-immune disease that doctors can't quite figure out along with liver, pancreas, and gall bladder issues and is now scheduled to have her gall bladder removed. It's affected her so much it's limited how much she can work. (This gal lined up for every booster.)
* Another co-worker has developed multiple heart issues.

But being a modern, progressive person, I declined to take the Trump vaccine. When they rolled out and told me I was eligible for it, I told them that to atone for my white, male, straight privilege, I'd like to donate my doses to a non-binary person of color.

No, no.... It says "about" $500,000/month. So "about" five customers. Some people might say exactly five customers, bu sometimes you don't want to be that specific. So, about five customers.

Who even uses LinkedIn? I've been in the workforce in a technical role for 33 years and have not once used it. A couple of times that I clicked on a link to someone's LinkedIn profile, it wouldn't show me anything but a nag screen telling me to log in. Nope.

Do I know how? Yes. Am I proficient with one? No.

I have about 10 minutes of experience driving manual transmission vehicles spread over two vehicles, both tractors. Both were when I was visiting friends and they said "Hey, want to try it?"

So if I got put into a car with one I could probably make it work, but I wouldn't be proficient with it and wouldn't feel comfortable with it, at least not at first.

I also "know how" to shift a Super 10, but will probably never have the opportunity to actually try it.

"America is Facing Its Largest Apostrophe Surplus in its History"

My credit union pushed an update to its web site some months ago that caused it to no longer work with Firefox.

There's also a credit card company that won't let me sign in when they see I'm running Firefox on FreeBSD, but it's a superficial check on their end -- If I use a user agent switcher plug-in and make them think I'm using Edge on Windows it'll let me sign in with no problems.

When I run into a problem web site with Firefox I'll temporarily turn off uBlock Origin, but that almost never helps.

Water and electric companies, too. "Water plan fee", etc. Heck, my electric bill is now two pages due to all the add-on fees, and all the taxes on those fees that are also broken out to separate lines.

These are the comments I came here for. Thanks!

Try RayForge. It's relatively new but seems to be doing well. Lack of laser engraving software for Linux is what was keeping me from buying a laser engraver, but when I saw RayForge I went ahead and bought an engraver (Sculpfun S30 Pro). I bought it to burn my creator's mark, date, and serial number on to my woodworking projects. I just got it so haven't used it much yet other than burning some test grids and some sample marks, but I'm very impressed with it. I run it on Linux Mint.

If cartoons have taught me anything, it's that gravity doesn't have any effect unless I look down.

Wait, what?

Which is fine until the financial institution eff's that up. I've had checks get lost in the mail so I avoid sending them where possible and do most payments on-line. One of my utilities won't let you pay on-line unless you agree to stop printed statements, which I don't want to do (plus their web site sucks...) So I thought I'd try on-line bill pay through my credit union. A month later I received another statement that failed to show my payment. I asked my credit union for any data they had on the transaction. They sent me a receipt which showed they sent the payment to the wrong business . When I asked what they could do to help resolve it they said there was nothing they could do and that I'd have to contact the business myself. It was an business I didn't have any relationship with... I guess it's "just the way it's done" -- they can only send money, they have no way of issuing corrections. Fortunately the business in question was very helpful and was able to send me a check for the amount in question. The worst part is that this wasn't a big bank, but a local non-profit credit union which is supposed to be by the members, for the members. And they never even issued an apology.

What I learned is that apparently part of the on-line bill pay process involves a human reading your payee information and transcribing it somewhere else to make the payment -- they don't directly use the text typed by the customer. When I log in to the credit union's web site and look at the bill pay transactions, it clearly shows the correct payee, not the one they sent the funds to.

Whoa, punchcards? Lucky dog! I had to chisel my ones and zeros out of stone. In fact, we didn't even have ones and zeros. We had to use the letters 'O' and 'I'.

Cops are crooked? That's unpossible!