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Tough. I jacket-pocket-carry a Fireflies E07 2021 (non-pro) and it gets pulled out often briefly at work, but I have another Fireflies light sitting by my front door (E12R) that gets used 3 or 4 times daily for dog walks after dark and moving sprinklers around at night in the summer.
Most hours award goes to a D4Sv2 in my kitchen, it ceiling-bounces for 30 minutes every morning before dawn while I make coffee, feed the dog, make lunch etc. I just recently swapped out a tint-ramper with SST-20 2700k/4000k for a single channel with a boost driver and three 2700k with single 4000k. Good call for this usage, the boost driver lets it sit at top of ramp for said 30 minutes and barely get warm.
Not sure trying to attract people and lowering barriers to entry is the best thing to do at this point. We’ll have the same dearth of quality content and more n00bs to get bored and post memes.
The slow, hard road is the way. Post stuff. High effort stuff. Respond, don’t just upvote. Make this place worth signing up for.
WRT 3-2-1 I’m only part way there for my personal stuff, I haven’t been willing to invest in anything offsite yet but gained some peace of mind anyway. Offsite backup for the most important stuff is in my future for sure. FWIW here’s what I have, and what I did:
In order of size: 1000+ movies, a couple dozen TV series I may want to revisit, something like 10000 songs (mostly in albums), and a slew of scanned family photos and genealogy documents as well as offline ancestry databases.
In order of importance: family photos and genealogy stuff, music, movies, TV shows.
I ended up with a primary NAS, Synology 4 disk with one disk redundancy, and a second older Synology set up the same way that serves as backup. Each with battery powered UPS. The older NAS has degraded twice over about 12 years, and each time I popped another disk in and a couple of days later all was good. They do scheduled data scrubbing and I subscribe to an inexpensive SMS service that texts me when that gets done or if anything else happens.
I don’t use any backup or replication software. Anything on there started on either my desktop or my wife’s laptop, and we just copy it twice. Except the TV shows and the one-and-done Netflix movies, they just go to the primary and I assess later if they are in need of backup.
Hope that’s useful in some way.
Enshittification in its most literal and obvious form. And the author was either kind, or very very lucky, to get any useful search results at all in less than an hour of scrolling.
I’m the same way, nothing but black or gray with different buttons to tell them apart.
Doctor Herbert West is peak Jeffrey Combs and I will die on this hill (having seen none of his work in proper theater).
I wish Mr. Grammer nothing but the best in his new venture, but I’m too old to enjoy carrying on without Niles or Daphne. Marty is to be forgiven, rest his soul.
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