BearOfaTime

Fortran, Cobol, Assembler.

That's from the 60's. It's a Corvette competitor, I believe it used a vette as the base, was mid-engined. Forget the name

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15355238/ultra-rare-1964-pontiac-banshee-concept-headed-to-auction/

The VPN is to give you access to your files from anywhere, since you don't have the storage capacity on your laptop for all of them.

If you have an encrypted connection to home, laptop storage isn't a concern.

As a benefit, this also solves the risk of losing files that are only on the laptop, by keeping the at home.

Yea, Syncthing has it's moments (and uses - I keep hundreds of gigs between 5 phones and 5 laptops/desktops in sync with it).

Resilio does use the bittorrent protocol, but uses keys and authorization for shares. Give it a try, it may address your need to access files remotely. I use it to access my media (about 2TB) which clearly can't be sync'd to my laptop (or phone). I can grab any file, at any time.

1. What's your network performance look like? 100mbit? Gigabit?

2. External drives are terribly slow, USB doesn't have great throughout. Also they're unreliable, do you have backups? I'd look into making those drives internal (SATA) which has much better throughput. I use one external drive on USB3 for duplication, and it's noticeably slower on file transfers, like 40%.

3. For remote access to your files, look into Tailscale. You run it on your laptop and server (or any compatible device in your network), and it provides a virtual mesh network that functions like a LAN between devices.

4. Syncthing is great, but it just keeps files in, entire folders of them. So if space is tight on the laptop, it won't really help, not easily anyway.

5. Resilio Sync has Selective Sync, where it can index a folder and store that index on any device participating in that sync job. Then you can select which files to sync at any time.

Except from what I've read, the freezer on bottom actually uses more energy.

I'm not sure what to believe, but freezer on bottom has always made sense to me. The fridge is used 10x as much as the freezer.

Well, no shit.

This would likely happen to any machine directly exposed to the internet that hosts any kind of service intended for local networks only... (which is the network stack on Windows, and has been so since 1990 with NetBEUI/NetBIOS), and has been intentionally left insecured to boot.

Hell, in the 90's we put windows desktops directly on the internet just to see what would happen (yea, our bosses would yell at us when they caught it). They didn't get hacked much or very fast then, which shows how much automated intrusion scripting is happening today.

Bunch of clickbait nonsense.

Local machines aren't servers. And servers aren't directly exposed to the internet without routers/firewalls/IPS/IDS, etc. The only devices that should be directly connected to the internet are edge routers. And even they should have very secure, layered setups to ensure malicious traffic can't transit to the LAN.

And a few years ago we were called conspiracy theorists for predicting this.

He's doing his level best to kill it.

Is the rider a bicycle?

It was because multiple people fucked up by not validating data.

The question is, given the meticulousless of an org like that, how is it multiple units didn't perform data validation?

The project plans and validation steps I've seen for relatively simple, multi-million software deployments would've caught something like this.

Yea, I'm suspicious that this is used an an excuse for another failure.

And the keys in it, with a light on top flashing "look at me!"

You're, right? None of the public schools I or my siblings attended thought that stuff.