Fun tip on restic for restoring or browsing snapshots. The restic mount command lets you mount your backups to your filesystem and that enables you to browse all your snapshots and all the files at different points in time all from your file manager. Then you can just drag and drop to restore files as needed.

I’m enjoying following a walkthrough just to know where to go.

How would it know you’re using a VPN?

I think they mean hosting their own VPN on their home network, not using any third party provider.

I wish I could just turn it off because clearly it doesn’t respect my choice.

Why is being a gay male relevant?

Idk, it’s coming from the higher ups, they’re having everyone use AI as much as possible from writing emails, to programming, to even doing our performance reviews. They had a built in tool do do our performance reviews for us we just had to review edit and submit

My job forces me to use AI and they track the usage to make sure we are using it.