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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?
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I’m concerned at the number of people who boot new OS’s without backing up their computer.
Thank you for your concern, hah!
Yeah, I admit the mistake happened long before last night.
Appreciate the good humor on your part! I’m just being a bit tongue in cheek but PSA: everyone should follow 3-2-1 backup protocol! You’ll never lose your data again!
3 backups
2 formats
1 off-site
So I recommend everyone get 2 decent HDD’s (2nd is clone of 1st) and 1TB of cloud storage. Most services are under $100/yr and let me tell you, you’ll want to spend 5x that to save half of what you lose without it. It’s easier and cheaper than ever to follow this system.
I may or may not have a OneDrive account that I was paying 2 bucks for but cancelled when it charged full price. I may actually have a lot of the important stuff on there!
Alas, none of the newer stuff like my upated password manager key and anything else after I ended my brief return to Windows.
Yeah, cloud storage is not the monster after all.