Just got to have a wand like Bellatrix Lestrange’s then.

No politeness there…

That’s a beautiful shot. The colors are amazing… No adjustments - the stinkhorn really is that shade?

Nice!

The extremely gullible ARE the joke.

No one technically DID say anything, because it was a film set prop.

I’d have a field day with anyone losing their shit over this and thinking it was a real thing, by showing them the film it came from…

Damn… I wish I didn’t remember my dreams. Usually they involve me trying to clean a house where the rooms constantly change. That, and my car always seems to be turned on it’s roof.

God only knows wht I keep coming back to that weirdness.

Fry that fucker up till it’s nice and golden, add some HP curry sauce and crack open a beer. Almost like Leberkäse…

Heaven. Will take all anxiety away.

…polite the environment…

Do they give it a sincere “Good day to you!”?

Oh fuck yeah. Am going to share this article… We’ve got ICE scurrying around the area here where I live and when they sweep someone up and disapear them w/o letting friends and/or family know… Yeah. Time to make a stink. I hope this keeps going and spreads across the country.

And nobody keyed that ICE rental car?

Hmmm…

Yay!!!

Yeah, gotta be extra careful with dogs and sugary things - they DO have a sweet tooth.

Many decades ago, my dad’s black lab got into a grocery bag and ate a pound of grapes.

She laid on the floor under the kitchen table and groaned for hours while she was bloated and farting the Farts of Eternal Doom.

It was so not good…

As I almost got banned on Reddit for pointing out, Kirk stated he was willing to accept firearm deaths to protect the 2nd Amendment, he also said that executions should be live streamed and thirdly, that children should be allowed to watch them.

Dude hit the trifecta.

Win, place and show.

Oh no! I’ll send a little prayer for Callie.

I do my backups manually.

As I have run unsuported Mac installs for the last 20 years, I started a long time ago, automatically partitioning my OS drives and making storage volumes to work off of.

The storage volume in the computer will have subfolders for the type of data - music, video, photos, etc.

When my storage volumes fill, I will pull my latest backup drive out of storage, hook it up then go into each storage subfolder, sort by date and add everything that’s newer than what’s in the backup drive. (which is actually how Apple’s Time Machine backups work - incrementally sorted by date - but I’ve had this method since the start, so I just stuck with it)

I just make sure to take note of how many files/folders I’m adding to the backup drive and note what it has at the start, then at the end, as a double-check of it all, before I clear the storage drive on the computer. (I did not do this and lost almost a years worth of music rips, waay back in 2003. Rebuilt the music I lost then iTunes threw a wobbler and lost the library for me. FML…)

The longest backup will ALWAYS be the initial one if you’re dealing with a first time backup. The rest, once you work out how to organize your files, is academic.

What I’ve found is that your tastes will change, you grab content you think you’ll want to hold onto forever… and then years later, you realize it’s low-bitrate, low-resolution, too pixellated… whatever… and you decide to delete it.

With the software doing the backups for you - it’s too easy to just let it rip and go have dinner while it works and you end up with files that you’d otherwise get rid of. Part of being a data hoarder is not keeping everything forever. There’s a ton of garbage online. Tastes change as you get older… You want to curate that shit so you can keep what’s most important - like family stuff.

And really good porn.

Yikes. Before you dip into any of the self-hosting, take and get a WD Gold drive - from Western Digital directly (wd.com) - do NOT go through Amazon or NewEgg or any third party merchant. Send in the warranty that goes with it and register the drive (this is for covering the off chance it’s a DOA unit) Then get a good quality enclosure to pop the drive into and take your time and back up EVERYTHING onto that new HD.

Don’t use an SSD.

You want a spinning platter drive, as this is backup only, so once it’s full with all of your content, it gets dated and labeled and popped into a drawer for safe keeping. If you have countless terabytes of data, get more drives and swap them into the enclosure, date and incrementally fill. A fine tip sharpie to note what’s on the drive is fine, or if you’re obsessively anal about it, make a spreadsheet with that info… If your drives are kept dry and stored with care they will last for DECADES…

The truth if being honest here - I’m a data hoarder and most of the stuff I’ve tucked away since I first came online (in 1999) is now on drives that I maybe spin up once a year. I used to have the notion that it was critical that all my shit was accessible all the time and I ended up dropping money on networked storage… and over time, realized that as long as I knew where the files were, DID have the most important stuff - family photos and scans - tucked away not only in long term storage, but on multiple drives in multiple machines, (home, work, laptop) it was okay not have it served up instantly.

Just reading your post made me go cold inside - I can only imagine what you were going through until it got sorted. From a bonafide old school data hoarder… Please, back your shit up locally. Use enterprise drives.

Then sort a self-hosting soultion.

Oh totally right there with the entertainment part.

I tried - really tried - to watch that last Trek TV movie - was it? - with Michelle Yeoh, but I had to bail less than 10 minutes in.

Christ, I can’t even remember what it was called. Oooooffff… that’s bad…

I think it’s gonna eat him alive when the Norwegians ignore him. He only wants it as Obama got a peace prize in 2009.

Old men with dementia after all… can’t keep a grip on reality.

Discovery… was the the one with Jason Isaacs in it? I saw a few of the first episodes and it looked good.

I find it odd that Picard was divisive… then again, I’m just happy to see actors I like getting work.

I mean Sir Patrick, John DeLancie and even a cameo from Will Wheaton? Utterly delightful!

Nice! I’m just new to lemmy and in all honesty, haven’t been able to catch any of the Brave New Worlds series at all.

Am likely going to just hit the torrents or my public library and start with the first season. Last Trek series I watched was Picard - which was fun enough. (who am I kidding, I’ve been in love with John DeLancie since his days as Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives… so any Q episodes are a delight… but I digress…)

Once I get the first season of BNW I’ll drop in and offer my thoughts on it.

Oh no… couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, amirite?

Does it move like slime molds are known to?

A 56 y/o half-brother that I would do almost anything for and a step-sister that… well… whatever.