Yet that’s still exactly a thing that many other platforms would do. Maximise lock-in.

Well, that’s fine since it isn’t 1982 anymore. Right?

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ is nice for running a regular manual or automated Borg backup.

https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/PikaBackup/ is also pretty neat if you want to clicky backup data as a user.

Both are common in package repos. And there’s probably even more, but I’ll mention those two just to point out that you don’t have to script the raw Borg if you don’t want to.

I’m at single digit TBs and dreading that a drive breaks and I need a new one. Not that I have a lot of free space either.

Passive digital data is in fact the only thing that can be perfectly preserved as long as a sufficient number of copies exist and are replicated before the media rots.

Along with backups, keep checksums and check for bit rot regularly! Also make sure that recovery works by testing.

That’s kind of the defining feature of spam. Not thinking if it’s appropriate or good, just sending everywhere because some of it will generate clicks.

“Just delete it” or “scroll past” is not a useful response. Spam is infinite unless it’s blocked and/or punishable.

I would expect a container to be an easy solution there.

Requesting mod action would probably work.

Unless there is no active mod.

I don’t think WoL works over IP. In my mind it’s lower (LAN, e.g. ethernet) level. But if it used IP, you’d need to get ARP going before it routes. An “offline” network chip could probably manage that, though.

I’m curious to know what you find. Wireshark is always fun and fun and enlightening. :)

Switches probably need to figure out which way a particular MAC is (unlike a hub, which just express everywhere). That’s the switching part. If they power off, the tables will be empty.

After you unlocked it, it was no longer locked, and you could do the install. It had to be unlocked for that part. Many phones have no available unlock.

Also connects to cloud for model that controls the backdoor. Might be replaceable with a local server, but still.

If you’re storing, then offline, read only, checksummed and preferably encrypted. And above all, several tested backups. I’m partial to making erofs images from dirs, but any archive that fits the content type works.

For the random access cache on top, whatever.

At least this time it has a few terms that people might not know. Usually it just spasms obvious trivialities.