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Troph - you are in the same place we are in as a concept. Professionally, I can't lose the data. I've been trying to cobble together a solution to do what others here are talking about with 2-3 iterations of "back ups" for redundancy in the event of fire/failure/ransom. My problem is the process to do that and IMMA has excellent ideas on how to deal with this based on my preliminary communications with him. Looking to flesh it out some more and hopefully pull the trigger to make my life easier.
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we are an all mac environment. We have about 4TB of data - 2TB of which are "fresh". We use dropbox for business after running into a lot of issues with sharefile "syncing" via onedrive app on mac. Dropbox has been very good to us from a usability standpoint. Once a month we back up our fresh files to backblaze. This is a true back up and not a sync/merge. We have been using multcloud website to do this and it works, sort of. In the old days you could have an external HD be the location of your data for dropbox and it was easy enough to deal with it. These days, the local storage must be internal. none of our macbook pros have 2 or 4TB of internal storage (duh). I am looking for a way to set up something that is simpler, easier, scheduled/recurring that will allow me to do one full back up ever so many weeks and syncs/merges every two weeks to account for new files in between back ups. I was thinking about regularly downloading to an external SSD a full copy of each subfolder (by year) of our files that are fresh and then moving them to backblaze manually. That might work. However it is 100% manual and there is a file size limit on the GUI for backblaze that forces me to use third party solutions. I went down a rabbit hole today of rclone, b2, syberduc, blah blah blah. I am relatively tech savvy, but I am a lawyer with no IT training. Just a guy who hunts and self studies enough to get the job done when possible. I think I am beyond my element in trying to figure out the best way to do it. Yes - we have an "IT Provider" - but they aren't really all that helpful at thinking about things outside of the box, like this. Happy to pay for someone's time, buy beers, whatever.
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ESPN Channels and Disney owned ABC affiliates pulled from DirecTV right now
Dendox replied to Macklemore's topic in Football
The thing is, once you watch a couple of games, and are toggling back and forth, it becomes super easy. At least on a firestick for me Hold the center button down and it will go back to your last channel immediately. Like previous channel did in the old days. Hit the down part of the circle and you get last channels to switch from (if your game of choice was two channels ago, or three) Or you can quad box and watch four games at one time. I still had cable up until about 2 years ago. I have my channel numbers still memorized. I hated the YTTV usability/remote for about a month. Now, its not even on my mind until I hear people bitch about not having numbers. -
That is a fucked up story. Factually and as written. Do professionals not proof anything these days?
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wow! Proof is in the pudding! And then you have this https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202406255931/fda-again-rejects-abbvie-parkinsons-drugpump-combo-update
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We don't necessarily need/want a new domain name. The old man has name recognition and we like his name being around. The firm name is changing to reflect our ownership - but the website name/address i am indifferent on. Our biggest concerns and what started this analysis: - we no longer want to advertise via findlaw. The cost isn't huge, but the inquiries we get from there create far more burden than they are worth. - findlaw is our website host. If we slow our spend on advertising with them does that affect our website rankings in searches for things like "construction lawyer" "defect lawyer" etc. We advertise in those spaces (among others) with findlaw. - If we can safely stop advertising and safely stop paying exorbitant fees for our website, we would like to do that. Safely means - not taking a profound hit on the search engines. Truth is - we would probably gladly pay to keep hosting with findlaw and simply stop "Advertising" if it means that we can keep our search ranks and cutback on worthless intakes. Its not a money thing as it relates to the web (though I hate overpaying for anything) - it is a money thing when I think about what I spend each year for someone to process 20-30 intakes a week for cases we RARELY take that only show up because of the link to findlaw advertising.
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no. Smith Law Firm will change to Smith, Purcell and Lewis. If one of the legal service providers is hosting/providing our website and we are paying them for the website, along with some advertising through other "related" websites (Findlaw) - any chance that changing the website host and name will ruin us? Old man at the firm is gravely concerned about it. I am less so as 90% of the people we actually end up representing come to us via referrals and word of mouth, not web searches. If it will be an issue, we are likely to change the name and keep the website provider and move in slow stages.
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My small law firm is planning to make some changes. Name, website provider, and a few others. The old man at the firm has been around a long time and has a good bit of google love. We show up well in searches we care about. We are concerned about our changes and how they might affect where we land in google searches. Anyone here an expert in this space that can talk me through the risks of our changes and, if necessary, help us with migration to a new "host" and google?
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Dendox replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
Not my lane. I have generally followed you JJ and appreciate many of your takes. Your perspective often makes me ponder in ways that are beneficial. Frequently I agree with your overall theme, sometimes I do not. You don't give a shit what I think, I understand. I do not understand your position here. Are you spending more on your daily activities, daily needs than you used to? Are your increases (if any) consistent with BLS data? I am spending more. I am not living a lifestyle that is materially different than I used to. I have had new expenses (new driver, needs car, needs insurance, needs gas). Excluding new expenses, my costs to live have increased considerably. When I look at my monthly HEB budget for the family I am up 35-40% since 2020 and I now no longer drink $100 worth of alcohol a week (down to about $40 a month). I eat far less beef than I used to (fajitas are now rare, as is steak). Call it inflation? Maybe. Call it price gouging? Not sure how considering HEB has almost no margins on grocery items. Call it "more expensive than it used to be" - absolutely. At least from my chair. -
thats the point. Say what is true - verifiably - only. Period.
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careful representing stuff. If you say anything other than - didn't flood during the following named events: A, B, C, D - your realtor/lawyer needs to have their professional liability insurance all paid up, and you better have an umbrella policy to defend you individually.
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Does anyone use reelgood? Thoughts?
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Can you help me with this? we are streamers and have been for years. YTTV max4k. We have HBO through YTTV. we have Amazon Prime TV with subscriptions for Paramount plus showtime and starz. We also have the Apple one plan or whatever. We have a peacock subscription through Apple. we have the Disney plus subscription for Disney and ESPN primarily, but we also have Hulu as the third leg. I also have ESPN+ I have a MLB.TV sub as a stand alone. we have Netflix. we have so much shit that we don’t know what we have. Whenever a kid wants to watch something I have to figure out which app to open and which log in is necessary. It’s exhausting. is there a better way to do all of this? I like the idea of have one place to log in and look for everything. my wife and kids like the idea of simply opening a dedicated app (peacock for example) to watch whatever is there. has anyone else lived through this and come up with a better mousetrap?
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Truer words never spoken. And, if they "believe" their life in danger, they can actually do the opposite of protect. And evidence is irrelevant......
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Greg had control. The opposite of 87-88 without control.
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be a lot cooler if UH didn't step on their dicks. Fuckers
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Dendox replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
The shift did begin more than 10 years ago. I can tell you the self driving car was a significant part of the calculus. You are right about no one is rewarded for betting risky. Very conservative at its core. I misspoke - USAA means something very specific in this context (United Services Automobile Association) and was originally officers only, then opened up to the following groups - officers, pre-commission officers and e7 and up. USAA CIC is typically who insures the enlisted -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Dendox replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
USAA was concerned about the death of the auto policy. Whether it be self driving car manufacturers or OS writers for said cars - they were quite concerned that "auto insurance" would look markedly different in the future. In an effort to remain relevant, they sought to deepen their relationships with current members (LOTS OF CROSS SELLING) and expand their pool of members. Since the most of the officers who were elligible were members and using USAA, that left little room to grow without opening up the criteria for membership. The risk pool is pooled into different sub insurers based on categories. USAA (auto) is still officers only. Sub groups make up the new members. Garrison P&C is for family. There is a county mutual outfit too. Depending on how you qualify, your auto rates may be great, good, or shit. While I take umbrage with their rates, they are still pretty competitive. I quit giving them benefit of the doubt when their claims handling procedures changed so dramatically. When I lost the benefit of being treating like family, they lost the benefit of deference when their rates increased. AllCat can suck a dick. IF you have a property claim and AC is assigned, do everything in your power to refuse them and get an actual USAA employee to look at your damage. -
Forgive my ignorance. Does the sheet auto update?
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Never played a pickem like this. Sounds interesting. 1. Purdue 2. Iowa State 3. Baylor 4. Auburn 5. San Diego State 6. BYU 7. Florida 8. Nebraska 9. Michigan State 10. Drake 11. New Mexico 12. James Madison 13 Samford 14 Morehead State 15 Western Kentucky 16 Longwood 17 - Wild Card - Wisconsin Where do I venmo?
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Am I the dumbass? I have listened to all of the videos and never hear an gunshot acorn. Do I need to get my ears checked?
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Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
Dendox replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
just did a slickeals alert. will see if it works -
Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
Dendox replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
is there a way to got notified from some site when shit like this pops up? -
I was at the game last night in a section surrounded by sooners. It was comical to hear them hem and haw about the holding calls. While they were adamant that it was unfair, they were certain it could be called on every play. My son and I chuckled - against OU, it absolutely could be called on every play.
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