• @[email protected]
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      115 months ago

      You should at least have backups. And if you have gas where you live, a CO detector. Balls and breasts can be good fun but definitely aren’t necessary.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t have a backup, tell me where does one go for a backup procedure? Is it painful, securely stored, climate controlled, I have so many questions!!!

        • @[email protected]
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          05 months ago

          Can be as simple as copying files to an external disk and keeping it outside your house, like locker at your work.

          Keep 2 in rotation.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Thanks I never knew it was that simple to make a personal backup?

            Excuse me for asking more questions, but how do access my files, I don’t have a USB port installed. Also how large of drive do I need. And for recovery, if all I have are the external disks, but the original host is dead - how do I get a new host for the files?

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      I haven’t used a UPS in like 25 years. Don’t they have battery life indicators now? If not, that seems pretty useless.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Yup! I got some cyberpower ones from costco. Wrote a script to test and send me the results first saturday of each month. If it fails, there goes my saturday lol.

        Sometimes they get into a state that requires a hard reset. Happened to me a few times and was losing power during brownouts. Learned to test regularly after that.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Some have self tests options. If you have a small one, just unplug it and see if the battery holds at all. If it’s dead it will die really quick.

  • @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    Jokes aside, from what age is it recommended to check your balls annually as (for early detection/prevention of prostate diseases)?

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      25 months ago

      I don’t think you will detect things in your prostate by checking your balls. i think regular urologist visits like every two years is recommended from 40, sooner if you have a family history of prostate or rectal cancer.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      Checking your balls won’t find prostate issues. It’s for catching testicular cancer and you should have been regularly checking them since puberty. Just give em a quick feel about once a week in the shower.

      As far as prostate exams, those used to start at 40 years old but they aren’t really recommended anymore unless you have a family history of prostate cancer or other risk factors. It turns out they rarely caught anything anyways.

  • @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    write dates on your

    Backups

    Batteries (ALL OF THEM)

    Put dates on your CO2 detectors and Smoke Alarms. They do not work forever and have a limited lifeline. They shouldn’t be used after the expiration of that time.

    PUT DATES ON THOSE THINGS. Sharpies work great for that.

    • @[email protected]
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      Any smoke alarm I’ve seen always has the year of production on them, or the year of expiry (typically 10 years after production).

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    Balls: Check

    Breasts: Check

    Backups: *looks in basement* Check

  • @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    When my smoke detector is low on battery, it lets the whole neighborhood know about it.

    They could design them to be somewhat less annoying. Some people might just be tempted to disable them altogether because of this shit.

    • Echo Dot
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      My CO2 detector is the opposite. If it’s running low on batteries it occasionally makes a single blip sound for about one microsecond every 40 minutes.

  • Gregor
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    25 months ago

    I don’t have an UPS 😬

    Might invest in one tho

    • @[email protected]
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      Honestly with modern filesystems I haven’t seen a need for a UPS. I’ve had unexpected power outages on my PCs more times than one might think (something something old house, animals and kids) and the most I’ve had was some ZFS errors in a temporary VM for some temp files that corrupted. Maybe I should get one for my home server, but its already entirely built on a shoestring budget so a UPS would cost more than the entire system

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      25 months ago

      Fun fact: “ups” is Danish for “oops”.

      Which is probably part of the reason why the parcel service only started operating here a few years ago…

    • @[email protected]
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      05 months ago

      I’m trying to figure out if you are a transfer and upset you still have testicals…

      Or you literally bought a ball pit to play in now are think you have the check all the balls fo sweat, piss, shit, fungus, mold whatever else festeres in those…