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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Short answer: I'd probably start with TVC for video stuff and MAM for audio stuff. They definitely won't get you all the way there, but they'd be a decent enough start for a collection and ratio isn't hard on either one.
Longer answer: The main series itself and the theatrical movies shouldn't be too hard, and even the main spinoffs (K9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, even Class) shouldn't be too bad. I think where you're going to run into issues are things like the fan reconstructions of lost episodes, the various animated stories, short stuff like the Tardisodes, there's the behind the scenes programmes (Doctor Who Confidential, Totally Doctor Who, Doctor Who Extra, etc), the Red Nose specials, etc.
Then you get into the other stuff - official BBC stuff but not-on-video, all the fan stuff made during the lost years that had official / semi-official / unofficial-but-winked-at licensing, etc: There have been official BBC audio plays and radio dramas. I think most of Big Finish audios have leaked, though collecting and keeping up with them would be a chore - it's a pretty big collection, and they still make multiple stories every month. The ReelTime and BBV videos can probably be tracked down with a bit of effort (I do like the Myth Makers series). I don't know if any of the theatrical productions have been professionally filmed, though there's likely amateur video (but watching an audience video is often tedious and I'm not sure how much you want to get into this). Etc, etc.
If you want to get even further into things, there are novels and comics and annuals and all sorts of other stuff. I guess the question is, where do you want to start, and how far do you want to go?
Again, personally, I would start with TVC and MAM and see how far I wanted to go. I mean, the show has changed a lot over the years, some of it's missing, it's in various formats, stuff in different formats us considered canonical or non-canonical depending on the person. Even if you're willing to sit through black-and-white video recordings from the William Hartnell years, do you want to sit through fan reconstructions of ten of the twelve episodes of "The Daleks' Master Plan"? Do you want to read Lungbarrow in preparation for the TV movie? It's a long, complex, and time-consuming continuity.
When my grandparents got married, it was the traditional roles, my grandfather working and taking care of the outside of the house, my grandmother taking care of the inside; he did finances and stuff, and she did household planning, etc.
That was the theory, anyway. Long afterward, decades after the divorce (in a time when divorce wasn't overly common), she said that when they started out, he was thrilled with doing his part in the division of labor, but that he grew progressively less enchanted with adulting. So every so often, there'd be a task that he'd just decide that he didn't want to do anymore. So he'd find a time and say, "Hey, let's sit down and I'll show you how to balance a checkbook, just so you know how to do it." And then eventually it would become 'her job' to do the finances, etc. She said it happened with every single 'responsibility' he was supposed to be doing, it would eventually end up 'her job'.
And then one day, about twelve, thirteen years into the marriage, he was like, "Hey, let me show you how to mow the lawn!" And she absolutely refused. He tried again and again, wheedled as best he could, but she just. Absolutely. Refused. She told me that she just knew that if she "learned" this, it would become just one more thing for her to do, and she was already doing the full 1950's housewife thing, plus his 'home' responsibilities, plus raising a special needs child (whom she did an excellent job with, btw), and working a full-time job, and she just. Did. Not. Want this one more thing that was going to be foisted on to her, so she kept refusing.
Turns out, after a few months of her continuing to refuse, he took his daughters (he didn't have any sons) outside and told them, "Hey, kids, it's time for you to learn how to mow the lawn!", and two weeks later it was the daughters' "special job" to mow the lawn.
They ended up getting divorced a couple years later, I can't imagine why ...
Anyway, this picture reminded me of her story: there he is, happily lounging on a chair, smoking a pipe, drink in his hand, 'directing' his under-dressed wife on how to mow the lawn while he relaxes and 'supervises'. Fuck that guy.