Don’t.

Everybody hates preachers.

Lead by example.

I keep backups (regular, incremental, remote) to keep my data safe in case something happens to my local data. This protects me from things like theft, hardware failure, accidental deletion of some important files. Having multiple generations (daily, weekly, monthly) will protect me when I delete some files and only realize weeks later.

All of this is a separated issue to having encryption or not. I encrypt both local and backup copies, and store the keys in a password manager.

See what works for you, but don’t confuse the issues.

Encryption and backup are orthogonal domains. If you don’t understand why, I’m sure you’re not going to take a random strangers’ opinion on the subject.

Yes.

If my computers are stolen or lost with the luggage, or if I suddenly die (as one sometime does), I don’t want whoever goes through my computers to get hold of my ex-girlfriends nudes, my credentials for online banking or my porn habits.

That is a good reason to backup, but has nothing to do with encryption.

Journey.

I have over 700 games waiting on Steam, over 300 on Heroic… I’m not buying any other game until I get that backlog down.

Thank you for mentioning what it is/does. Too many announcements I see don’t do that.

Yep, Zip drives only had 100MB, the disks were clunky and were prone to get the Click of Death (not that LS-120 disks were any better in that sense, of course).

I’ve never encountered another LS-120 user before. When it came out I assumed it would be the future, because 120 megabyte freaking laser assisted floppy, am I right? Turns out I was very much mistaken, and CD-R took over.

I also made the same mistake regarding CF vs SD cards.

Playing some smaller, chill games: The Unfinished Swan and Sludge Life.

Heroic launcher. This is what you need, my friend.

Why does loving something automatically imply hating something else?

It’s about choice. You can use Cinnamon today and switch to Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever desktop you feel like using tomorrow and your apps will still work.

It’s all good software, made available to you for free. Drop the hate.

It seems that you need to read up on Linux and how it is different from closed source systems.

You are getting downvoted by people that were once where you are, but have since forgotten what it is to be a newbie.

It’s ok to not like popular stuff, no hate required.

Yes, you’re right. I bought a Kindle but haven’t used it much as I am still going through my book backlog.

As they say: you will own nothing, rent everything, and like it.

I still prefer paperback books, even if I’m struggling to find more space at home for them.

Books. I always need more.

Funny you should mention Farscape, I’ve only now started watching it (I somehow missed it when it came out). I still prefer Vala Mal Doran, but I’ll take any show with Claudia Black.

The only game with portable nukes.