7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

@nixCraft

I believe in #TimeShift.

I have restored from it several times. My ex was unaware of #6, and I lost a recipe #wiki and five years of stuff I'd done in #GIMP because I thought everything was being backed up, not just their ~.

This is reason n+1 why I have two external drives for stuff I don't want to lose.

(Somewhere in n is the time they bricked my new laptop by trying to run the boot image in a #virtualBox. At the time, it was <1 week old, so I didn't really lose anything except my temper.)

I didn't actually leave until they praised TFG in a way I couldn't stomach or ignore. It's been years, and I still have habits developed to work around their cluelessness.