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[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I often defuse like this by referring to my age. “My reflexes were great when I first started playing video games in the 1970s—now I am just slower and not much I can do about it.”

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I will second this. My wife and I tried all the instant coffees on some review site and one of the mid priced ones was surprisingly good. Originally it was for camping, but it was so smooth and didn’t upset our middle-aged stomachs after we drank a lot of it, so now we drink it all the time.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I use https://macmousefix.com/en/ on my Mac mouse. I’m not sure of its range of features.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Disk block cryptographic signatures with automatic recovery?

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is this why people run Arch instead or atomic linux distros?

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or even, “fuck your privilege “! Unless my wife wants to paint holding the brush in her mouth don’t kick her in the expression. You want royalties for artist or advance optin for model training I’m with you.

Edit:Didn’t realize the community I was in. Sorry all.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

These seem like semantics to me. Saying it isn’t a backup, when it successfully restored my uncle’s 25 years of files after his hard drive failed, doesn’t ring true to me. OneDrive allows recovery of data from ransomware, common user error like deleting or overwriting files, drive failure and catastrophe like fire. What use cases does this backup methodology lack for you that is important for casual end users?

Personally, I architected datacenter backups for a large company with business critical data. This was a decade ago, but even then I was responsible for architecting logical, physical, application, database, snapshot, tape and site replication for about a petabyte of data (hard drives used to be small). When you say that some of those things are not backup, I don’t understand why you think that? Different types of backups have different strengths, weaknesses and use cases.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can roll your onedrive back to a previous point in time in the event of a ransomware, technical issue or user mistake that causes issue.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore-your-onedrive-fa231298-759d-41cf-bcd0-25ac53eb8a15

OneDrive does not do full disk synchronization to my knowledge.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OneDrive is a decent solution for non-techies who need a backup system. I’ve installed it for octogenarians who certainly would never backup anything on their own. It does versioning on the files, so it can protect against ransomware and provide fallback to earlier versions.

Whenever I am remotely helping one of the people I have it setup for, I glance at the icon to see if it is working. Occasionally, I see it complaining about a single file not syncing for some reason, but that generally will resolve itself by the next time I check.

It has a vault that requires additional authentication for your most sensitive files.

I like it—I’m sure its not perfect, but it isn’t terrible.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It’s such a game changer!

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I had the pleasure of working with 8” floppy drives with the Social Security Administration.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I hate that they renamed it on iOS but not Mac. Now my fingers can’t remember just one thing.

 

So here is the pan I posted about a couple days ago. I put the pan in the oven and ran the self-cleaning cycle. When it came out I cleaned off the ash and I could actually tell that some of the texture around the edge was the metal and not food. The rest of the gunk was gone.

I put a very thin layer of canola oil on it and baked it at 450 for an hour. It looks beautiful now. I’m going to do a couple more seasoning cycles and then try to maintain it.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

 

I started using a lodge cast iron pan about a year ago. I purchased the pan probably five years ago, but it didn’t see much use. I decided to try to move away from cooking with non-stick skillets and it took a while to get comfortable, but now I use it routinely. I have some questions about care.

The photo shows where the finish looks like it is missing. I’m guessing it is the oil coating that should build up, but I would like a second opinion. What should I do about it? Just start seasoning it until it all looks good?

I bake eggs in my oven (on a cookie sheet in ramekins) nearly every morning for family breakfast. I’m thinking I could just integrate seasoning into that existing ritual. My tentative plan is to apply a thin coat of oil to the cast iron pan and put it in the oven while it preheats to 375 (about 15 minutes), the eggs cook (another 15 minutes) and then turn off the oven and let the pan sit in the oven while it cools down. Will that be enough heat to get the oil to do what I want? I’m trying to not waste a lot of electricity and have something I can do basically every day until I am happy with the seasoning on the pan. Can I just use the cheap canola oil I already have?

I would love any feedback or thoughts.

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