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athos77, to asklemmy in What are your best flight tips and tricks?

Wear a good-fitting N95 mask from before you enter your departure airport until after you leave your destination airport. Covid sucks, flu sucks, rsv sucks - just wear a mask, ffs. And get vaccinated.

athos77, to datahoarder in What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive? (on Linux)

What I do is on the originator drive, I create new subdirectories and start categorizing items by content; like I'll put all the ebooks into one directory, and all the television into another. It just makes it easier for me to find things later if I can just head to the drive with all the television on it.

If there's a particular directory with a lot of content, I might create further divisions - maybe shows that are finished vs those who are still getting new episodes, or sitcoms vs drama, that kind of thing.

Then I make a list of how big each master directory is, and I start copying them over to the most appropriate-sized drive. I usually find that I can fit in one large directory, and a couple of smaller ones, and then the last drive gets all the leftovers. I also tape a post-it note to each drive saying something like "2022-23 television" or "science fiction audiobooks" or whatever.

I also create a new directory on the originating drive called something like ++COPIED and, once I've copied content to a new drive, I move the original directory to ++COPIED: I'll still have access if I need it, but I don't have to keep track of it any longer. Once everything is successfully copied over, I can just delete that one directory.

It's a manual process, yes, but it does make it easier for me to find stuff when I want to look at it again later.

athos77, to asklemmy in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

You are correct. I don't know why I said that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

athos77, to asklemmy in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

Do you pay cabs by the mile in Japan? It might be something that he commonly "misunderstands".

athos77, to asklemmy in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

Was his name Count Rugen, the Six-Fingered Man?

athos77, (edited ) to asklemmy in Tips on making your data less sellable?

Run a VPN on the device so it's harder to figure out where it connects to the Internet. Leave it at work or home or, if you must travel with it, keep it turned off.

See if you can friend or follow people in foreign countries and who don't speak English.

athos77, to asklemmy in Community search for vet advice

Well, the only way you'll know if it's too niche is by asking and seeing what the responses are. If posting on lemmy doesn't get you enough information, you might try posting on reddit, they bring the information back here tob possibly help others in similar situations. I mean, I've left reddit, but if my cat's health was potentially at risk, I'd ask anyplace I could get a decent answer.

athos77, to asklemmy in Community search for vet advice

For your fish, maybe try aquariums@lemmy.world

athos77, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's the funniest/strangest thing you have seen out your office/apartment window?

Our open office of five desks and 3-5 people was on the second floor; right outside our office was a short hall of 3 individual offices, but the people in the offices were often out of the office. We'd mostly all worked together for years by then, got along well, and were pretty informal.

We had an absolutely wonderful (if slightly ditzy) girl named Chrissy join the office one summer, fresh out of high school. She liked to dress up very stylishly - not like office wear, but like a popular cheerleader might wear to class, if that makes sense?

Anyway, we're in the office one day, and Chrissy ducks out, then comes back in like one minute later, face absolutely flaming red. We ask what's wrong and she could only stammer in response. She eventually got herself under control and said:

She'd stepped out to run some papers downstairs and, as she left the office, she felt her pantyhose start to sag, so she quickly ducked into one of the side offices, pulled up her skirt, and pulled her hose back up to the top of her thighs. When she looked up, there was a window-washer hanging off the side of the building, slowly and calmly wiping his squeegee back and forth across the window, looking directly at her and smiling kindly. She stared at him, mouth open, while he continued his slow, calm, almost meditative squgeeing across the window. As soon as her mind processed "unexpected man outside second floor window", she bolted back to us.

It was literally like something directly out of a sitcom.

athos77, to asklemmy in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

Where else would one eat pie?!

athos77, to asklemmy in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

It's a natural instinct for them to chew at plants, so I agree with the cat grass suggestion s. If there's one particular cat that's the problem, ask the vet to check it's teeth at it's next checkup: sometimes they chew more plants when there's buildup or something wrong with their teeth.

athos77, (edited ) to science_memes in Seasonal Affective Disorder

And so, of course, it has become an internet culture / meme thing to do precisely that, but in a sneaky way.

MFW I realize that Loss is just Rick-rolling the latest generation.

athos77, to piracy in E-Books, best places to get them?

The nice thing with MAM is that you can grab a torrent of groups of books, instead of downloading them individually.

athos77, to piracy in E-Books, best places to get them?

getting in is not very easy

Dafuq? They run interviews twice a week, and the questions are dead easy.

many torrents are behind a VIP-wall

Which you just have to wait a few weeks to get past the account age restriction and hand over a few bonus points, which are trivial to get. Just bookmark anything you can't get and have a little patience.

athos77, to piracy in Is there a place with the complete Doctor Who collection (Classic, Modern, AND spin-offs)?

I'll see if I can't put together a small collection of things for you to grab.

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