I bought a 13" SurfaceBook 2 with the official Microsoft dock when it came out. I figured buying hardware from the company that makes the software would've given me the best experience.

After beginning to use the machine, I discovered that Microsoft's own dock can't even keep the machine powered under heavy load. The battery was discharging WHILE PLUGGED INTO THE WALL. I had to take breaks so that my computer wouldn't shut down and could recharge.

I had been on Macs for years but decided to give MS a chance because Windows Subsystem for Linux looked pretty awesome. Needless to say, I'm back on a Mac.

I think they said there weren't any ex-Twitter employees working on Threads.

So much floof, so little time!

I remember my friend setting up a movie night and inviting me and my other friends when he found a copy. That certainly was an amusing surprise.

Hmm, wouldn't that be RAID 1? I thought RAID 0 was striping, where if a drive fails you are screwed.

It's probably super unlikely, but I'd still be paranoid about that one day where your external drive is home and something happens (fire, flood, etc).

I did something similar until I went full remote. I just had two externals and would update one before going to work and take the out of date one back home.

Totally understand being distrustful of cloud storage. But there are a lot of great solutions that are end to end encrypted. I've had good luck with https://rclone.org in the past. They support so many cloud services, it's insane. You can set your own encryption key.

Damn. You were pretty reasonable. Didn't even invert the colors on every page.