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  • I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

    I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.

    I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.


  • Ideally? I’d say something with support for 2 drives, mirrored.

    Without a price to define “not crazy expensive”, I’d say take a look at QNAP and Synology 2-bay devices, pick what fits the price range. I’d put it on the network and mount it on the PCs you want to as a drive to drop things in.

    Then I’d add one more thing - 3-2-1 for anything critical.

    • Three copies of all critical data should be made on a regular basis. Original data + at least two backups
    • Two different storage types should be used to store the data to minimize the chance of failure.
    • One offsite location. Could be an encrypted copy of a backup on cloud storage, could be a drive at another home.

    How critical data is would be up to you and your parents, I just want to note that a single backup at your home is not going to be helpful if there is flooding or a fire or whatever that would damage both the originals and the backup device.















  • The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.

    Especially since they are talking about all the money they will save cutting jobs.

    Based on the time frames for this, I’m going to guess by the end of 2026 the engineering team will shrink, followed by a 2027 announcement of merging departments for better management, and RedHat basically be just IBM entirely by 2028.

    If I still had any servers on RH for work, I’d be planning my moves right about now (personally I started the shift after the 2023 announcement on source code availability, finalized the last three servers in June actually).

    Really quite a shame to see how things have changed.

    Anyway, I’d suspect there are at least a couple years left before its a mess.



  • Legal, hr, finance, and accounting is now IBM, and IBM has noted job cuts as part of the cost savings in its profit forecasting.

    Engineering, product, sales, and marketing are not making any changes - yet.

    I would note that IBM is also now pushing its “enhanced AI” support over speaking with actual people, unless you have an upgraded support tier. Basic support tier can also no longer escalate cases.

    I would agree in not needing to rush anywhere, but I would have to say this looks like the start of enshittification for sure.