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Backing up files.
I had just landed in Niamey, Niger, and went for a walk in the market. Niger is very poor so I stood out tremendously. A terribly disfigured person* approached me and begged for money, but I really had none (I do that when I go out in countries I don't know) so I simply had to wave her away. The person said something very loudly and I asked my driver to translate.
"She just put a curse on you".
I obviously paid not attention and went back to camp. I started my laptop and started typing, then realizing there was something wrong going on. Pressed all the frigging Windows Combos, and nothing happened. I shut down the machine and tried a re-start, only to hear the dreadful "ping-ping-ping" of a jammed hard drive. My disk had broken down.
My back-up was, of course, back home. I was in Niger with no machine to talk about, and no way to buy a new one (this was a long time ago and there were no stores of such quality in Niger).
It is the closest I have ever come to believe in witchcraft. And, as you say, the worst possible lesson on keeping back-ups up to date, and with you.
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* I believe the person had suffered from some pox or another disease and was disfigured because of it. But that would take us to the Covid topic, so I won't go further.
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Work files are all backed up to network servers, but my personal stuff is what I get very lazy about. And just a rude awakening of yeah, you need to just take the time when my phone reminds me to do it every 2 months to minimize the losses if something happens. I probably need to just sign up for a cloud backup, but I've resisted because just feels like an additional cost that I'm not sure I need when my external hard drives are less expensive and work great as long as I actually back up my info.
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Some anti-virus providers are now including cloud storage as part of their packages. Webroot is offering 25GB of cloud. That should be enough for almost everybody, as far as documents are concerned.
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ponchi101 wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:47 am Some anti-virus providers are now including cloud storage as part of their packages. Webroot is offering 25GB of cloud. That should be enough for almost everybody, as far as documents are concerned.
I read that ^, and for a good 20 seconds, I was trying to figure out why a company who denies that COVID-19 exists is offering cloud storage. Is it simply to get more people aboard the virus denial train?
It's fascinating how the mind works (or doesn't work) sometimes...

As far as 25 GB of storage goes... that's way too much. Bill Gates himself said that no-one would ever need more than 500 MB...
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25GB for you or I is too much. For young kids that want to have ALL their stuff in a cloud, it is just about right. They, of course, no longer have their music online (they have subscriptions for that) but their 3,000 videos of themselves having a burger with three friends, and their 10,000 photos of the same friends having the same burger need to be stored somewhere, because they already have 10,000 tiktok videos in their iPhone, which is about to explode.
It also shows how cheap memory has become. My first laptop had 8MB of ram and NO rom (it needed a boot from floppy's). My second machine, which was the second top of the line, had 128MB RAM, 3GB ROM and it was a monster, at over $1000. Now, a 256GB SD will cost you less than $50.
The progress in that area is incredible.
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FYI, since masks aren't going anywhere anytime soon, if you or someone you know wears prescription glasses and has trouble with them fogging up when wearing a mask, I thought I'd share that I got this new product. Been using it for about 2 months, wish I knew about it months and months ago. I put one drop on once every week or two and the fogging is not a problem anymore. It's like it starts to fog a bit and the fog just disappears. It's great. Makes things much easier when I'm out in a mask, even though I wasn't doing bad before, it's definitely better this way.

These drops are for glasses with AR coatings. I think they have a similar spray for glasses without coatings, but I haven't tried it since all I don't have a pair without it. Here's a link to the product on the company site. I bought mine on Amazon.

Optix 55 Ant-Fog Treatment - https://optix55.com/products/anti-fog- ... ive-lenses
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I'll check that out, Jazz. Thanks. Is there anything that will keep my nose from running like a hose the moment I put my mask on?
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dryrunguy wrote: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:02 am I'll check that out, Jazz. Thanks. Is there anything that will keep my nose from running like a hose the moment I put my mask on?
That's my biggest problem. I sent the anti-fogger to my daughter and her husband who both wear glasses.
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The anti-fog treatment is great. I was doing really well with placement of masks and not fogging up my glasses much at all. Then I started with the double masking and it just was like it was April and I was fogging up all the time. So I found this when I was looking product ideas on Amazon, gave it a whirl and it's just wonderful.

The runny nose problem under the mask I don't have. I'm usually congested. But I'm thinking if I had this problem, in addition to my typical allergy meds that I take most days, I'd probably see if using Simple Saline before leaving the house made any difference. And see if using the Olbas inhaler in the car and blowing my nose in the car would make a difference in how long it was until my nose was running again. Both of those are OTC and can be found at a local pharmacy or on Amazon. I'm not sure either would help in this case, in many ways, it's counterintuitive, these help mostly with nasal congestion. But why is your nose runny? If it's an irritant in your nasal passages causing the problem, it would help with clearing it.

And maybe you could practice at home? See if it any of this helps at all. I've had to workshop out a lot with mask wearing at home testing out this or that before going out into the world.


Now, I have had a runny nose under a mask and it's the worst, so I feel for you both that this is a constant problem. The time that I just couldn't stand it anymore, I was at Home Goods, went to an unoccupied aisle in the back corner of the store where no one was nearby, pulled out a Kleenex, pulled the mask down and blew my nose lightly so I could make it through the rest of the the trip. I wasn't going to make it otherwise. I used hand sanitizer once I was done too. I'm not proud, but it had to be done.
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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
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:clap::clap::clap:
Roger Waters calls that "The bravery of being out of range" (he was talking politics). But once that person is there in person...
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There's a quote from Mike Tyson that sums up social media best. It's something to the effect of people being entire too brave running their mouths and not getting punched in the face for it. I'll find the exact quote. Say what you will about Mike about other things, but he's 100% right about this.


Here's the quote -


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Exactly equivalent to that time in which Tiny said to the crowd that he "would like to punch him in the face", when a person was being escorted out of one of his rallies.
Sure, when you are surrounded by the Secret Service that is trained to pelletize anybody that comes close to you, you can sound really brave.
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Young men: We're great at this
Baby: Hold my pacifier

What a fascinating video clip, for many reasons.

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