Gourd

I’ve got a Tarsnap account backing up my especially important data every night, which is admittedly only a couple of gigabytes of scans of important documents, hard to replace files, etc. It’s doing snapshot-style backup with a backup for every day in the last week, every week of the last month, every month of the last year, and the last three years. Paying less than a dollar a month for it, so it’s working out.

That stuff also gets rsync’d each night onto my NAS, which has its own automated LVM snapshot system going on along the same lines, and I’m using syncthing to mirror it onto my other PCs as a final last-ditch backup (and in case I need it elsewhere). Finally, there’s an external hard drive I keep manual backups on every once in a while.

Larger datasets that aren’t really stuff I want to pay for on the cloud (14 TB worth) just get stored on the NAS and a drawer full of external hard drives. Not ideal, but it’s just way too much data.

Don’t worry, eventually Google’s current project to replace all their own search results with their own “AI” sludge will make using them impossible to get credible information from too. :(

The most baffling thing modern search engines do, especially DuckDuckGo, is a page of search results in they inevitably throw in some unrelated results involving my location as looked up by my IP.

I’m not sure why when looking for old Sega console stuff it wants me to know about plumbers in what it thinks my city is, but it’s sure dedicated to me finding out! :facepalm:

I use Firefox Beta on Android because it lets you use arbitrary extensions unlike the stable version at the moment. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but it means that in addition to uBlock Origin on mobile (the killer app of Firefox Android IMHO), I’ve also got Redirector set up to redirect all visits to Imgur/Reddit/sigh Twitter (if I have to) to the proxies out there like LibReddit or Rimgo so I don’t have to log in or be tracked at much. (There’s an extension called LibRedirector that gets recommended that automates the process better, but it’s really flakey in my experience.)

Otherwise just got all the usual security settings turned up.