I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

It is Duplicati, and IMHO restores work best if they aren’t restores-in-place. As in, dump the restores in a central location then drag-and-drop the data into place. Most of the issues I have heard of involve restoring data and settings back to where it originally was backed up from, and restoring directly back to those places - other than fully user-controlled directories, such as Documents or Photos - seems to be problematic.

Other than that, I have been using it for nearly a decade and have done a number of restores - after total drive deaths, so not just accidentally deleted files - to great success.

The downside is that tweaking backups from within the hidden C:\Users\[username]\AppData\ directory involves many days of whack-a-mole to exclude untouchable normally-in-use files so you don’t get scads of errors in the backup process. Plus, there are a fair number of entries in there that don’t really need backing up. But once you get that to settle down, it’s largely smooth it’s-set-so-forget-it sailing.

so we must escalate the security dilemma

There is no escalation dilemma here. History is overflowing with examples of countries with good militaries stopping much larger and more powerful countries from invading.

You think Switzerland just told the Nazis “pretty please don’t invade”?? No, their entire population was armed to the teeth and the entire country was geared for war and a strong defence, along with defendable topography. Had Nazi Germany actually invaded, it would have likely crippled itself from the attempt.

Now, maybe that would have been a good thing, historically speaking, but bullies are only stopped by people they think they cannot easily bully. And for countries and unions of countries, that means a strong military and leaping to each other’s defence.

Conversely, Russia only invaded the Ukraine because it saw that country as weak and an easy invasion target. Europe failing to back Ukraine tells Russia that it can walk over Europe, taking out countries in sequence, and no-one will make any serious attempt to stop it until it is too late.

Your comment seems to be steeped in reality-free ideology, and bereft of practical history.

To focus on political structure when Europe is under immediate threat of an emboldened Russia is bikeshedding at its worst.

Given a choice between enlisting for a country in it’s defence - or the defence of the entire continent of which it’s a part of - and being exterminated by the invader who threatens all countries there, I’ll take the former any day of the week.

The greater evil is the imperialistic-driven extermination of you and everyone you love, not serving in the military for a war that you would prefer not to be in.

I said absolutely nothing about patriotism. Patriotism in many cases is toxic to humanity and peace in general.

And an aggressor like Russia will roll over Europe if there is no military opposition regardless of the system in place. Better to have a military-industrial complex providing viable opposition than having entire nonmilitary populations being forcibly exterminated as Russian forces are wont to do.

I advocate dealing with the aggression first, and then figuring out an ideal system moving forward afterwards, rather than bikeshedding away any advantage that may currently exist.

TL;DR: Use the tools that you have right now, and figure out something better once you have the breathing room to do so. Because right now, Russia ain’t planning on providing Europe any breathing room. It would gladly retake all of Eastern Europe given half the chance.

Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.

The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.

Before you reuse it, please crack open an image editor and correct the last word in the title by removing the apostrophe. Anyone who took English classes past Elementary school will thank you for that correction.

Apostrophe is possessive. The facts do not possess themselves.

When there are a number of them, however, they are just facts, without an apostrophe.

it seems EU is funnelling cash into the wars

If it’s to provide opposition to Russian aggression, that is something that should be done. I am fully behind opposing fascism and imperialism.

and all the capitalist thieves benefiting from it

This is where the problems ooze out of the woodwork. Too many piggies at the trough, too many politicians linked to those piggies.

Build a tall wall between capitalism and state, like how we are (ideally) supposed to have total separation between religion and state.

And most importantly: start by eliminating all forms of corporate welfare beyond the ma-and-pa level of capitalism. If a company is “too big to fail”, it must, by default, also be too big to be privately owned, and must be nationalized or collectivized, with owners/shareholders seeing 100% loss in their “investment”.

As a security professional… yeah, nope. Nope, nope, nope.

Win11 has many usability issues, and Windows seems to accumulate more with every design decision, but reaming your arse open for someone else to bugger you via an exploit run under your own account is not one of them.

…And? Elephants are terrified of bees. My dog is terrified of beetles. I’ve known horses who were terrified of mice, and nearly killed themselves panicking in their stables.

Just because it’s small doesn’t mean it can’t do significant damage on a psychological scale.

But getting vaccinated doesn’t really prevent you from spreading it, it just prevents you from not dying from it.

LOLWUT is this antivaxxer shit? Go back to your anti-reality, anti-evidence, anti-facts hellhole, bud.

Yes, vaccines can prevent you from spreading disease to others, though the degree of prevention varies by vaccine and pathogen. By reducing the likelihood of infection or the severity of illness, vaccines lower the amount of virus or bacteria shed, thus decreasing transmission to others. High vaccination rates within a community further limit the spread of diseases.

#Here’s why:

##Reduced Infection Risk:

When you are vaccinated, your body is better prepared to fight off the pathogen, making you less likely to get infected in the first place.

##Lower Viral Load:

If you do get infected after vaccination (a breakthrough infection), the illness is often milder, and you may shed less virus, which makes it harder for you to transmit it to others.

##Community Protection:

When enough people in a community are vaccinated, the chain of transmission is broken, protecting those who cannot be vaccinated or for whom the vaccine is less effective.

Therefore, getting vaccinated not only protects your own health but also contributes to the health of the entire community by helping to stop the spread of infectious diseases

They key point is density. The denser the population, the more people need to be immunized for herd immunity to be effective, because the more people the average person comes in close contact with even only in passing.

It’s like the difference in walking six blocks in a sleepy town vs six blocks in downtown Manhattan. Even in “rush hour”, with the sidewalks at maximum typical capacity, the former might net you a dozen close encounters while the latter could easily net you 1,200 close encounters. If you are immunocompromised, the same level of herd immunity in the general population makes the former a much safer environment than the latter.

And in general, Europe tends to be much more densely populated than almost any other part of America short of the major metro regions, and they make their cities far more walkable and pedestrian-friendly, increasing the amount of potential interactions someone has; even just passing interactions.

Statistics can be wild.

Thank you for that link.

Honestly, I don’t know why Lemmy doesn’t pester people to use Archive links when posting, or use an internal API call to auto-convert any link to an Archive link. It could make linkrot a thing of the past for this site.

Since a long press on any key doesn’t bring any of those up, my method involved going to the text replacement section of the system settings, and doing a replacement entry. I copy the glyph from wherever I find it on the Internet and assign a unique string (the “shortcut”) to have iOS insert it. I’ve used a reliable pattern, such as (degc) (yes, including the brackets) for ℃. You need to choose a string that you will never otherwise use, otherwise you’ll be fighting against the text replacement.

Using this method I’ve added all sorts of special characters like fractions ¼ ⅙ ⅛ mathematical symbols ± « ≈ ≠ and even text emoji ಠ_ಠ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and other random symbols № ® ™.

Fun fact: if you have an AppleID-linked Mac, this will all sync over, letting you use these shortcuts on the Mac as well.

They’re trying to be edgy and use the obsolete thorn character (þ) everywhere you would normally pronounce “th”.

While I usually enjoy rifling through the UTF-8 character set for better/more-appropriate glyphs such as curly quotes instead of straight quotes and the numero glyph instead of the hash/pound symbol, the thorn character ain’t going to be making a comeback.

Edit: fun fact, even the temperature symbols have their own fully-assembled glyphs — Fahrenheit ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character glyph that you can use without having to cobble together shit. One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph (which a math glyph, and has NOTHING to do with temperature) mashed together with a letter in a wholly inappropriate Frankensteining.

There are a lot of reasonable people who can get behind that statement…

Yyyyyup.

“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”

ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣

Bloody accurate, you are.

The Socratic Method tends to be effective in many cases so long as the other person remains open to reason and logic, especially the requirement for evidence.

Brainwashing gets increasingly easy the younger the subject is. Children, in particular, have an evolutionary need to automatically trust adults and what adults tell them, as they don’t yet have the cognitive tools to handle the world around them. Trusting adults have been baked into that part of childhood development because, historically speaking, it gave a distinct evolutionary advantage. Those children that listened to adults had a much stronger probability of surviving until adulthood.

It’s why religions so strongly proselytize the young – get them young, get them for life.