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Roller said:
Thanks for the detailed reply. Sounds like you've tried a slew of external drives. I've also used various solutions over the years, including VXA tape cartridges, SyQuest drives, Iomega Zip drives, and floppies before that. They were certainly no fun!

I have several Samsung T5s. They've been incredibly reliable, so if I get some larger capacity external SSDs, I'd go for Samsung. Have you found the T7s any better? They're priced similarly.

The advantage of Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! is that they let you maintain nearly identical copies of a drive easily. I switched to CCC a couple years ago because I liked its feature set a bit more. Apple's OS changes have made it harder to create bootable clones, so I no longer do that. But I can connect one of my backup drives to another computer and be up and running quickly. I also use them with Migration Assistant to set up a new Mac, which I did this past weekend.
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Oh, yes, I remember those tedious floppies, and the Iomega Zip drives!!! Things are so much easier, not to mention quicker, these days when it comes to backing up one's files.

Yes, the Samsung T7s are faster than the T5s and I like them for that reason. I also like being able to color-code by choosing specific colors for specific contents, which wasn't possible in the early days with the earlier T series. (Black for complete current backup, blue for "Supplementary" backup, etc.) Yes, I've found Samsung to be very reliable. So far the G-Drive ones have been as well. I've only recently started using the Sandisk ones, about a year or so now, I think, and so far they're fine, too. I am surprised that Samsung has not yet brought out a 4 TB version in the T series, which was a major drawing-card for me vis-a-vis Sandisk.

When I buy a new computer and set it up, I don't use Migration Assistant; again I do everything manually. I find that it's a nice way to get acquainted with the new computer and its features that may be different than an older one. Also I prefer to use the same admin name and passwords in my machines and with Migration Assistant one runs into problems trying to do that.
 
Clix Pix said:
Oh, yes, I remember those tedious floppies, and the Iomega Zip drives!!! Things are so much easier, not to mention quicker, these days when it comes to backing up one's files.
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Those Zip drives were the best at the time though. Still have a box of them and and old desktop with ZIP, CD-R, 5.25" and 3.5" drives just in case. :)
 
Alli said:
How do you feel about going back to an office? I have a friend who does (telephone) tech support for an ISP. He’s been WFH for a long time now. He just got word that they’re supposed to return to the office this month and he is NOT happy. He doesn’t understand why answering a phone requires being in an office, when it’s clearly worked just fine for almost 2 years with everyone at home. I tend to agree.

My son’s place has gone hybrid. Basically, anyone who wants to go to the office can go at any time. He figures he’ll go in twice a month just in case anyone needs him in person. My daughter, OTOH, works for a place that has been WFH since 2017. They don’t even have a physical office.
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We never really closed. I’ve been going in pretty much throughout. Others go in odd days. Some never. The mental health of those that haven’t been in at all is suffering the most.
 
Eric said:
Glad to see you embrace it so openly, while I work from home anyway I still have anxiety about visiting client sites, something I would proactively do regularly before the pandemic. I've been invited in a few times and have balked until recently, this month I'll be going onsite for a couple of meetings to make an appearance and will just mask up for my own comfort. I know everything is moving that way and I'm hoping it's something we can learn to balance out and live with.

I'll say that my wife would also be grateful if I got my ass out of the house every now and then too. :ROFLMAO:
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During the height of the pandemic I had to visit three sites the company bought. I wasn’t pleased about it, but my boss needed it done.
 
Herdfan said:
Those Zip drives were the best at the time though. Still have a box of them and and old desktop with ZIP, CD-R, 5.25" and 3.5" drives just in case. :)
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I have an external and a bunch of disk in a credenza about 10' from me :D I don't use it, but it did connect it a months (years?) ago and it still worked :)
 
Apple fanboy said:
During the height of the pandemic I had to visit three sites the company bought. I wasn’t pleased about it, but my boss needed it done.
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I'll do it now but in the height of the pandemic where every other person had it there would have been no way, I would've have given my notice if necessary. No job is worth your life.
 
It did end up being a pretty stressful day, a lot of anxious people, a lot of people who didn't want to be there (of course) and in my role of architect, I spend more time talking people "off of ledges" than I do on tech stuff so I did a lot of that today. It's exhausting, of course. I'm sort of the classic introvert and most assuredly don't get energy from being around a room full of people. I do better 1-1, almost always. I'd rather spend time having a real conversation with small group of interesting people or reading a really good book. Or photographing. Or cooking.

Incidentally, talking of books, I'm reading a great book called The Idea of North by Peter Davidson. "The North" has a hold over us in myth and legend. The arctic, the northern lights, the wilderness. The sagas from Iceland, Greenland. Davidson is an Oxford academic with a wide range of interests. I recently finished a book of his called The Lighted Window: Evening Walks Remembered. It's hard to describe. It sits on two layers, one that revolves around walks in the evening in different cities around the world and in the countryside, as well as bringing in art, literature and philosophy around what he sees. The idea of the crepuscular in a broad human sense. It's sort of playing into some side work on photography that I'm working on over the course of this year.
 
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DT said:
Set up for our 2nd booster tomorrow, and then some beach side eats :)
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Well, the above did happen ... and feeling fine!

Got the booster around 4p, bailed on the beach joint (it was a cluster*****), but did cruise down the beach (they're right at a drive on entrance), really a beautiful day, a touch on the cool side, and we eventually wound up at our "regular place" in the Old City.

Wow, the guy at CVS went above and beyond! Fixed our digital info, extensively explained the shot, the possible reactions, suggested ways to reduce issues. He massaged the shot area for a minute or so, carefully came in at what I've seen online as the exact location/angle, very little soreness today (and so far, I haven't crashed and burned - the last booster didn't effect me much either, my 2nd primary dose decimated me ...)

This is the place we didn't go, really fun when it's not packed (which starting about now, won't be a thing till like September ... :rolleyes:)


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DT said:
Well, the above did happen ... and feeling fine!
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... or not, hahaha, yesterday it hit me early afternoon, started feeling heavy and chilled down my core, no fever, it wasn't a huge deal, drank a beer, bailed on anything productive, woke up this morning totally recovered.

Not me, but the little G today: she has FSAs (Florida Standardized Assessments), I love that she's academically intense, wants a max score :) We don't put any specific demands for achievement, only that she tries, but she's smart, creative, so it's not a surprise when she does amazingly well. Writing/ELA today, this is a walk-in-the-park for her.
 
WFH for a change. Didn’t feel especially productive as I had a two hour call with a colleague. Also the garden landscaping guy had some questions about the wall he is building.
 
Apple fanboy said:
WFH for a change. Didn’t feel especially productive as I had a two hour call with a colleague. Also the garden landscaping guy had some questions about the wall he is building.
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A two hour call... yeah, no. I would have said there was a bear trying to raid my garden...

You need to make a list of plausible emergency exits and keep it next to the phone, scratching them off as you use them up. :p
 
lizkat said:
A two hour call... yeah, no. I would have said there was a bear trying to raid my garden...

You need to make a list of plausible emergency exits and keep it next to the phone, scratching them off as you use them up. :p
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I really needed a comfort break halfway through. Not as young as I used to be!
 
Writing code, planning some particulars for the upcoming trips, eatin' n drinkin', got some terrific cheese, wings, got restocked on a few beverages, tequila, bourbon, beer.

Made some guac this afternoon, it was a good one! This was mid-process :D (I tweaked the jalapeno and tomato ratio later ...)

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Well for the first time on almost 4 months after my wife's shoulder replacement surgery she was able to ride our tandem. she also went back to work Friday and managed 4 hours of work for the first time in over 4 months. so Proud of her. we only rode 3 miles total 1 miles to see our granddaughter then to the bike store to check something then the grocery store and home.
 
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Sutured an inch-long tear on my boot with a medical learn-to-suture kit I bought months ago out of curiosity of how it worked. Shoe repair was def not on the list of things I was planning to do with it, but it worked wonders. Will last long enough for me to find a new pair of boots.
 
Yesterday was "house work day" - shifted a lot of paving stones we put in almost 15 years ago which had since been buried in 15 years of spreading bark/mulch over them. We're getting ready to do a bunch of stuff in our back yard/garden and ahead of that, there's a lot of lifting and shifting. I also managed to get out for another hike in an area I've wanted to go for a while near Boulder, but blah light, really windy so just some "scouting photos". Today though, hoping to get us "out of the house", back up to Boulder to the Museum of Contemporary Art, maybe lunch on the pedestrian Pearl Street mall. Coming off of a crazy week last week preparing for and having a 2-day quarterly planning event. As an enterprise architect (software), my job is to get 8 teams of about 120 people to do stuff they don't want to do, getting buy-in from senior leaders, talking people off of ledges, getting people to break down their tribal silos and in general lots and lots of diplomacy across vested interests and fiefdoms. Writing software and learning new technology is the "easy part". It's those pesky humans that get really annoying :D. This week, it's back to the normal craziness.
 
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