This gonna take some getting used to.

Losing backups suck. In a past life we had half-yearly disaster recovery tests where boss would just say "XYZ is dead, recover it" and you'd go restore everything (in a VM) and see A. how long it took and B. that everything restored correctly.

Despite having this concept instilled in me, I've never done this for any of my own severs cos it's too much effort XD (and paid the price more than once lol). So while everything I have is backed up in theory... I'm always praying to the old gods nothing actually happens.

Fortunately, my server backups are primitive -- just copy the files off. The database that tracks them is a little more complicated. I also use borg backup, but only for my laptop. I've never been comfortable seeing backup files that aren't actual copies of working files, even if they are more efficient.

Apropos of nothing, I like the bar that pops out when I mouse left, showing new posts.

Yeah, I was using this backup software, forgot the name. It was a local service on my computer. Used it for several years, but then cancelled my subscription. Then recently I wanted to find an old project of mine. However the backups were in some strange proprietary format, and they changed the format on the new version, which means all backups older than like 2 years ago were completely dead. I tried to find some hacks to extract the files, but I think they were encrypted and no one was able to figure it out. Should have been a class action lawsuit but I'm just gonna move on with my life.

TwistedTwigleg For scrolling, if you look on the far right you can see a scroll wheel that shows the post. If you click and drag that bar on the right, then you can quickly go through the conversation.

I don't see a "wheel", but the scroll bar works. But it's still very cumbersome to go through a long thread such as this one.

      DaveTheCoder I don't see a "wheel", but the scroll bar works. But it's still very cumbersome to go through a long thread such as this one.

      You can click anywhere on that empty gray box (it is below the area that says original post). It will jump to a section, but it's hard to say where, especially with this thread where there are over 2,000 posts. In a normal thread with one or two pages it works well though.

        I don't backup much of anything even with this cloud software. I lose a bunch of old art etc. My financials are on site. Have to get some new passwords. It's kind of a clean start. I don't like it, but it's not that big of a deal. Usually it's because my old computer dies. It used to be hard ordering a new computer but now I have a phone and tablet. If my router goes out I can scrape up an old one if I have to, I think.
        Does the code insert work from the little menu at the bottom? Was that there before?

        func add_to_count():
	number += 1
	count.text = str(number)

        It does but it works better if you use Markdown. Just put 3 tildes in a line directly above and directly below the code.

        ~~~
        code goes here
        ~~~

        The Oculus VR forums (I'm a moderator there) moved to Khoros. That forum software doesn't even jump to the last post you saw in a thread. It doesn't tell you how many unread replies a thread has or who made the last reply. Also no dark mode, I had to create my own (using Stylus plugin). Months of annoyed members complaining followed the change over.

        Oculus forums? VR is amazing! And if that's the case, those forums must be a pain.

          Nerdzmasterz Yeah, it became rather annoying for a while. It even had an annoying setting that moderators (I'm just a volunteer mod, don't work for them) had to manually approve EVERY image posted on the forum. Luckily the admins eventually found the setting to disable that.

          VR rocks. Plug in a force feedback steering wheel, put on one of my VR headsets and spend a few hours driving around in Euro Truck Simulator 2. 🙂

            I really need to figure out how to make Godot games for Quest 2. 😎

            I haven't tried Godot's VR support yet. At work I teach VR with Unity (urgh, their VR support keeps changing and has so many issues). Most of my own stuff is C++ with no VR view (diagnostic tools and a program to use oculus controllers as keyboard/mouse/joystick for desktop software).

            The clear notification tick has turned invisible in the forum light theme (it's white on white). Still works, just not visible.

              I can build games in VR with Unity, only because I bought an asset which its creator constantly updates. I never did learn to code it. 😕

              I think the asset was called Autohands? And it works very well.

              However, I am so over not actually programming the game, myself. My deal is that I don't even know how to make the VR fingers move in Unity- my hands might as well be cubes, or programmed by someone who actually does know what they're doing.

              Am I the only one who is slightly disturbed by the fact that there is actually an emoji swear? I dunno, but I would imagine we'd basically get banned if we actually used that. 😕

                Nerdzmasterz The swear emoji would depend on the context of how it is used. It shouldn’t be used since we are a family friendly forum, but it wouldn’t be an instant ban or anything - we do bans on a case by case basis.

                    cybereality It's not anywhere else online as far as I know. It was a photo of my cat that my brother took with a shaky camera and cropped.