If you want to REALLY get comfortable with how linux works under the hood, then Gentoo is an awesome learning tool. The amount of choices and customization options is ridiculous, from choosing which features you want to enable(compile) for an app, to choosing between bootloaders, init systems, and so on.
I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but I wouldn't be a professional Sysadmin today if it weren't for Gentoo.
Are they active noise cancelling?
I have some jabra noise cancelling ones. When the battery is close to empty it sometimes switches to just one earphone until it completely dies and switches to no noise cancelling mode.
Secondly, backups need to be setup to happen automatically, otherwise you will forget about them.
In terms of NAS, you could just get a raspberry pi, and attach a big portable drive via USB. Should be small enough so you can carry it around, plus you can set it up to do automatic backups into the cloud.
In fact, you can even setup different backup scripts that run, whenever you plug in a different drive into the raspberry pi. Each drive's filesystem would have unique identifier ID, so you can easily create a script the reacts to whenever that drive is plugged in and run a different script when a different drive is plugged in. e.g. lets say you have one drive you always want to sync with the cloud, and another that you just want to sync with a drive on your NAS.
Lastly, you should always consider how important is the stuff you are backing up really. If it's easier to re-create/re-download from other sources as opposed to the time and effort for backup&restore, then that stuff doesn't necessarily need to be backed up.
I always buy games only on sale. My rule of thumb is: if it's around 20€ it's a no-brainer. Anything above that I only buy for games that I really really want and that stay above 20€ even when on sale.
What you also might consider is re-encoding your stuff to use less space. Photos can be stored as lower quality jpgs and home movies can be reencoded as hevc. The latter can even be done automatically using something like tdarr.
Build a NAS. If you've already got one, build a second one as backup.
It's cheaper in the long run than most cloud storage solutions. Especially when you factor in the time it would take for a complete restore.
Nope, came out of my mother with a full grown beard.
Jokes aside, I watched my fair share of horror films when I was younger. But mostly because I was fascinated by the special effects. Watching horror films with that mindset made them a lot less scary.
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It depends on your use case. In my case I mostly manage bare metal servers running certain services or docker.
For servers I don't want rolling releases. That just means stuff is going to break on a regular basis. In my opinion, Arch Linux is the worst offender here. I don't know if it's gotten better since last I used it. But with Arch Linux the problem was, that you had to keep up with the updates. If you forgot to update some machine in a while, it could happen that you missed some update that changed some critical things, and everything else already moved on, and the only way to fix it was to hunt down the intermediate package version and try to install that manually, or just wipe and reinstall.
As far as "ancient" tools is concerned, it depends on what those tools are. Bugfix and security patches is what I'm most interested in on a server. Just because there is a newer version of software out there with some new features, doesn't mean that I need those features, or that they're relevant.
For the cases where I need something newer, there's docker, flatpak and backports repos, (if not third party repos for certain tools).
I'm a seasoned professional Linux sysadmin, so getting a distro installed has never been a problem for me (thanks to my first proper distro being Gentoo).
In the end, it's the stability and "knowing what to expect", that always makes me come back to Debian.
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If you want to REALLY get comfortable with how linux works under the hood, then Gentoo is an awesome learning tool. The amount of choices and customization options is ridiculous, from choosing which features you want to enable(compile) for an app, to choosing between bootloaders, init systems, and so on.
I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but I wouldn't be a professional Sysadmin today if it weren't for Gentoo.