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  • Need more info.

    Do you live somewhere that has lots of bugs (Like a high humidity place, lots of plant life outside) or in a dry climate?

    In an area with lots of bug life it’s hard to completely keep them out - your house is like a sieve and you have a high “bug load”. So investigate gaps in window frames, screens, etc.

    In a place with few bugs (say US southwest), you’re just playing odds and aren’t likely to get many anyway.

    Someone else mentioned they’re probably coming in with you through the open door - in my experience that’s the “big gap” (haha) that’s hard to reduce.








  • I go to the Alamo specifically to see old movies on the Big Screen.

    Some just aren’t the same on even a large home screen, such as Lawrence of Arabia, or Spartacus (two the Alamo are currently playing). And some movies I’ve never been able to see on the Big Screen (such as the aforementioned).

    I don’t have to go, I choose to go for the experience.

    Alamo doesn’t make the movies, so your argument doesn’t even make sense.

    Edit: Though I agree with your general sentiment - make movies I’m willing to go see, instead of all the garbage and mediocrity


  • What’s more important is redundancy, as all drives fail.

    What’s your replication/redundancy/backup plan look like? That’s more important than “which drive” (other than SMR/CMR), as even enterprise drives fail.

    I’ve had consumer drives running 24/7 for 10 years.

    Drives are a lot more robust than most people think, but they still fail at seemingly random times, so having backup is crucial.

    Backup, backup, backup.

    I have an (old) NAS that frankly I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything can die, so it’s just one component of my local data replication.

    I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 3 local copies.

    All of these drives are 5+ years old except the primary data drive which is 2.






  • Power management on a laptop.

    Use a 10 year old Logitech mouse out of the box.

    Mint’s stupid annoying print monitor.

    Dealing with cached samba creds though the box to save creds wasn’t checked.

    The lack of real competitors to office. And no, Open Office doesn’t come close to replacing MS office.

    There’s lots that’s annoying.

    But Linux is excellent as my servers, as my VM host, as my dedicated systems. Still has it’s issues, but works great for always-on systems with very specific tasks.

    Linux and Windows serve different purposes.