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Cheers, didn’t really get taught any of this. Haha no pr0n.exe downloads! Just past lack of education about net safety or didn’t shell out for good AV, or maybe forgot regular updates.

Most are various laptop drives within the 15 year old range. I forget what connections.

It happened to the desktop a few times but I just shelved the old drive for later retrieval, put in fresh drive and installed OS again…😶 Seaview, maybe SATA. Replaced it with a SSD. I’d have to find it.

Fingers crossed that’s it’s not the heads because that’s actual physical damage I think. But it’s usually that something else broke, or there was something bad on there I didn’t trust I had the skills to completely clean.

Spare pc is a possibility, I just would have to back up and wipe an old laptop and I’m kind of struggling with day to day chores as is. Also it feels like wasting a pc by exposing a safe one if that makes sense?

(Also can you have separate backups on the same external drive? As in you can keep many different versions and from different computers without anything getting overwritten?

I think so but I’ve usually had to kind of just do a quick bandaid solution to get my computer going again, and have had fears of reinfecting by restoring data in the wrong way.)

I could buy a raspberry pi as they’re cheap but I don’t know if I have the brain cells for the learning curve rn.

It should be ok. I just need to back up social media pics locally first, then grab the stuff from other cloud storage, and then back the computer/s up. (And try to grab contact info of establish an outside connection in case social media requires ID in like a year.) The drives are sitting there and hopefully won’t get damaged or lost before I can get to them.

I’m really sorry. I know how it is to live somewhere you hate.

Re the fridge, I used to live somewhere the kitchen was so small it didn’t account for a fridge (literally no place for even a bar fridge - not built to accommodate one) so I kept my fridge nearby in the lounge. If it turns out that the fridge just doesn’t fit you can get creative or you could use a buy nothing/swap site to get a smaller one just to last you for the 6 months.

(If you have the money you can be a little lenient on convenience/tinned/fast foods just until you get out of there, or cook one pot food. Snacks help greatly.)

I’m sure Givit would take the big fridge, and perhaps the drawers(?). You might get a tax discount for the donations too.

This might not be legal in Australia bc food safety but in Slav countries the washing machine is in the kitchen with hot plates sitting on top because of space and also that’s where the plumbing allows it to be.

And this is hypocritical because I am a packrat/clutterbug when space allows - but I definitely did have ways of storing things/things I would cook or ways of doing things that helped me manage in a small place. Hit me up if you want some tips.

Just focus on survival for now, you’re in a great position to move in with family and save up for a strong return. It’s a lot easier to tolerate a bad situation if there’s an end date in sight.

Edit: I also know that Diabetes Victoria does pickups of clothes and other stuff, and there was a thing I used where you could download a prepaid postage label and mail donations to the Iconic.

However if it’s too much hassle or you don’t have time just do whatever you have to do. I should have thought to tell you this stuff earlier

lol that’s all Greek to me but thanks, I’ve made a note to try and figure it out.

Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy or distracted to backup consistently, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed-up-on-cd music collection to someone else I didn’t stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.

I still have some kept drives I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff. I’ve even used it to rescue scan and find viruses that hid from the AV. Another time I manually put the drive in a drive enclosure.

But with some it might still be risky. I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password to log in (at least while in the computer) which I don’t want to do on a compromised device. I haven’t tried to see if the Linux usb can bypass that or if that’s guarded against. I’m also not sure if there’s any ‘protections’ against accessing data while the drive is out of the machine but I do know that stuff exists with some hard drives so we will see.

Anything I know about computers I had to teach myself, so despite trying to catch up there’s knowledge gaps and lack of experience with some things.

Idk the old drives aren’t urgent. I think for now I’ll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.

The sad part is that reactions to vaccines are vanishingly rare but real. I’m wondering if this lady’s immune system had an unusually strong response and left her with some kind of autoimmune disease as a result. Fibromyalgia can be triggered after being sick with a virus and has been confirmed to be autoimmune.

But it is much better for vaccines to be mandatory to keep herd immunity for those that can’t have them and keep smallpox or polio from coming back. On the balance you just can’t afford to have it be optional.

Ironically the symptoms she’s describing sound like long covid which also gets ignored and denied support. It makes me wonder if her body did massively overreact to even the attenuated virus

I think I need to spend less time scrolling… it just sucks that Outside is hostile

Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadn’t heard people saying it was hard so I wasn’t scared to try, and if it wasn’t good it was a skill issue so just try harder.

Thanks, I could use any tips. I’m still getting into the habit of backups and probably don’t know how to use a NAS.

I’ve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda don’t trust it not to fail :/

I’ve lost so much to crashes, been really slack. Sounds dumb because I managed to teach myself some stuff that’s more advanced and took a short course on computer repair trying to get up to speed. But due to a weird long term laziness I’m just not familiar or comfortable with the backup and restore processes which should be 101.

I feel like the internet has turned really shit and at some point it’ll be so user unfriendly that it’s barely usable. I miss past eras of it (well the ones I’m old enough to have known) and the niches I like of current day are the ones most similar to that. I want to go back.

Lemmy is like a cosy comforting old school forum.

I had a brain fart and thought you were joking that the DT was his son… even checked to see if you were talking to a mod.

I need more sleep

Happy birthday to the DT and your boy!

I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.

Annoyed that I haven’t done so already because it’s a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.

Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to ‘go caveman’, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.

While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I won’t post it.

But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but there’s some original stuff in there. And back then I didn’t have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didn’t know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.

I guess it’s just elbow grease. Which I’m currently so very short on 😮‍💨

This is seriously concerning. What would have happened if it hadn’t made the news? Also squinting at the conscientious objection

I came at 12.01 and saw there was already a thread