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Just as a small note just in case, since this data is quite irreplaceable: raid isn't backup. Especially if the drives are of the same model, they're fairly likely to fail at the same time. Speaking from experience sadly

I use restic for off-site backups, hosted with a friend

Eyeing the replies, does not one other person here get results constantly flooded with content farms? They've gotten significantly worse

But then, I don't use Google so maybe this is still better than Google Search?

It started maybe three years ago, around the same time as LLMs became usable for this, but I'm pretty sure >50% are human-written still. Probably the LLM generates the structure (saves any time they'd have to spend coming up with plausible-sounding texts) and someone from a low-income country is contracted to make it look more legit

Of course, queries for topics that have a Wikipedia page get Wikipedia first, recipes get tons of big-name recipe sites, products get stores. But when there's no obvious market around a topic, 3~4 out of 5 results are content farms pretending to have useful information to show unwary visitors ads

(As an alternative, I still have to try Kagi properly. It seemed on par with DDG when I did a few searches last year, but then their payment processor refused me trying to load my account, support was unhelpful, and I've gotten sidetracked since)

OpenStreetMap contributor here. What address format isn't supported? Maybe I can help

Tried OpenStreetMap? Quality varies by country though

The fictional version of it is apparently named after soy and lent (the religious fasting thing, I guess), TIL. But the real-world version literally has meal replacement in the Wikipedia page title. Was looking for a reference from the creator stating their goal but Wikipedia said unreferenced (at the time that I wrote the Dutch translation in 2014) that it's supposed to be nutritionally complete. The English page was shortened considerably since then, dunno why but this part is gone. That's how it started and was marketed though, so that's what makes it that by definition in my mind. If they've strayed from their raison d'être, idk what they are anymore

Makes sense. I would guess Amsterdam has better English support (because more touristy) and slightly more jobs, but it's also... touristy :p. I don't like that because it's so fake and often about weed but things keep drawing me there, like open days (is that what they're called in English?) or a study or an internship or the two best book stores in the country (Waterstones and ABC are located on the same square, how could I not go there? I don't know of any other book store in NL with as much original-language content as either one of them!).

I've done PC repair before as an internship. I'm not sure if that's big enough here to find much work in. Perhaps at a warranty department, but I'd assume many stores ship the units to a low-income country. Basic skills picking hardware and putting machines together doesn't hurt though! I use that at my infosec job as well. And coding should definitely be a good idea

Good luck and let me know if I can help in some way :)

Gleba and Vulcanus are the most fun anyway :D

So long as you enjoyed playing though :D

Oh! Juist xD

What did you end up choosing? I'm curious how you ended up liking it!

Ha, grappig om te lezen dat ik niet de enige ben die nog Engels spreekt tegen diens vriendin terwijl ik inmiddels haar taal spreek!

Vind jij het ook lastig om te switchen met jouw vriendin, zelfs maar als oefening? Wanneer ik met haar mijn Duits wil oefenen (zij is Duits, ik Nederlands) is het een beetje alsof ik probeer een computermuis ondersteboven te gebruiken: veel te makkelijk om terug te switchen naar iets dat ik wel volledig beheers en waarin ik efficiënt gezegd krijg wat ik wil overbrengen — precies de reden waarom ik het zou moeten oefenen dus >.<

AVG ken ik alleen als een wet, of Engelse afkorting. Wat voor eten is dit?