If this is about the US, notice that they used to have intra-party elections as a strong cultural requirement before going into the main election. They only stopped requiring that very recently.

You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.

It’s even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.

AFAIK, it’s not clear if the CIA ever killed a president.

They surely gave guns and taught other people how to do it. But I don’t think they ever did it themselves.

It’s hard to misrepresent this as anything but Trump throwing a tantrum.

Can’t have depression if your entire day is consumed by worrying about your next meal…

Everything past making a call is awful

Making a call doesn’t work on a random browser selection that changes every time the thing is updated. It also takes about half a minute to complete a call. And the audio quality is significantly worse than in meetings.

And the most interesting, the brokeness doesn’t apply to attending meetings. Those have completely independent broken cases.

Honestly, there isn’t any single thing in Teams that just works properly.

That!

That’s what is missing to close the loop back into depression!

Until sites start disallowing youbikeys because it doesn’t make it impossible for you to backup your keys…

What is planned to happen.

I figure the most bang for my buck right now is to set up off-site backups to a cloud provider.

If you don’t have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can’t afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.

Then I started reading about backing up databases

Go read the instructions for your database in particular. They are completely different from each other. Ignore generic instructions.

now I’m configuring a docker-db-backup container

What is perfectly fine. But I’d first look how this interferes with the budget you talked about earlier and if it wouldn’t be better to keep things simpler and put the money on data replication.

Either way, if your budget is low, I’d focus a lot on making sure you have the data when you need to restore, and less on streamlining the restore procedure. (That seems to be the direction you are going, so yeah, I’d say it’s good.) Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.

It must be hard to live with an entire planet wishing you die soon.

Just like functional programing is about making state explicit, not making it go away.

Overall, both arms are wrong… so they cancel out or something like that.

First, “they all” didn’t so it. Some of them did.

Second, you are the one claiming the motivation for that action. And you are wrong, their motivation isn’t to “keep their business competitive despite the US tariffs”… unless of course they also don’t know what they are doing. That’s because the US tariffs doesn’t change the competitiveness of products on their territory, and their tariffs don’t change the competitiveness of products on the US territory…

What should be obvious, because the tariffs aren’t applied there.

And it still doesn’t work. Just “mostly works”.

That’s a really bad understanding of how economies work. On all levels.

That’s the kind of the way Trump thinks.

Stuff made in China? Tariffs!

Unless China considers it important. If so, they’ll just not send it.

I imagine it’s the terms the EU and UK were talking about yesterday. I also imagine the US would have something about 40% of the remaining 50% (20% of the total).

Good luck, the instances can’t just be started in any random order and at their current version their dependency graph is cyclical.

The US and Russia. Both were supposed to guarantee Ukrainian peace…

Goes to show you how much you can trust foreign powers.

That’s mostly because too few people use them.

Remember how the Nazis and the Soviet Union made a treat before WWII dividing Poland between them?