That's a trade-off between cloud storage vs manual off site storage. You could do a monthly backup to a HDD and then save that at a safe deposit box, like the old days. Except replace HDD with tape.

Optionally you and a friend could trade HDDs, and you'd only have to spend gas money or postage.

Either way you're going to have some sort of regular cost.

Oh matey. I literally just went through this and debated putting together a blog post or similar.

I'm not at my computer so I'm typing this from my phone.

The TL;DR: you need to decide whether you'll pay for the security by paying for restore upfront, or when you need it.

Since I yarr most of if not all my content, I did not worry about backing up my TV shows or movies. I take a directory listing of my jellyfin and back that up weekly. Music is small enough that I do back this up.

Cloud cost is abstract and hard to compare apples to apples. But the biggest thing you'll need to decide is how likely will you need to do a cloud restore. The more robust your on-prem backups the less likely you'll need them so I personally went with AWS S3 using rclone. Glacier cold storage is super cheap and for my needs I'm paying roughly $2-3 a month. The catch is if I need a restore, I'll have to pay for the S3 retrieval and then the egress which can be roughly $60 one time.

For companies like Backblaze, you pay roughly $60 annual for about 2TB of hot storage, which includes egress 3 times.

I prefer to save the $40 difference year over year, and instead put that in a budget for a break-glass situation.

In terms of hardware, some people recommend buying different brands with the same storage size. Others recommend spacing out your hard drive purchases so that they don't all fail at the same time. I prefer the latter.

Hope that points you in the right direction

I'm curious about codeberg. It looks like they have a CI/CD pipeline. How does it compare to GitHub actions?

Here's the thing very few liberals will understand: Republicans do this performative dance to waste government money and remove things like EV chargers and solar panels because, and I cannot emphasize this enough...

it appeases and even excites their base.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Doing shit like this shows their base that their team is in charge. That's it. They could have let them stay in and their base wouldn't have been the wiser. But doing it shows them that their team won.

Liberals don't have a similar signal. Hell, I didn't even know the GSA installed them. Not only that but liberals don't care as much to "win" like this.

We just want to survive whereas conservatives want to oppress.

That's the difference.

That might have been true pre Trump. But racism knows no age.

Congress is controlled by the same party as the president. Why the fuck would they even introduce impeachment articles?

The only way out of this is through means that cannot be mentioned due to this .world instance rules.

Popcorn button is useless but many people don't know how to use the power variation.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Here's my response to this line of thinking:

"Would you be okay if I fucked your spouse/partner/etc? No? Why not? You're already having sex with them. What's the difference?"

Consent. That's the difference.

We really need a public database of cops along with links to articles of their actions. Similar to the website created to track J6 rioters and their sentences.

“feeding off the dead bodies of soldiers”

Then tell Russia to stop sending soldiers. It takes two to tango.

Though, given the many sexual harassment/assault allegations against him, maybe he doesn't.

Yeah I have one of these infrared thermometers. The tolerance is within 1°C. They aren't designed for precision but for "is this thing at a temperature that I expect".