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Yes 8 hours of work can be tolerated. Disconnecting the drive several times a day will not stop ransomware. If I get ransomware at 3pm then what does it matter if I disconnected my drive earlier in the day? That is impractical & no gain.

ok so we are talking about 8 hours of computer use on a normal day. Whether I keep the back up in all day or spend my precious time disconnecting it does not make a difference. In either case I still have yesterday's backup offline and I have only lost a few hours of work. My new priority is getting my computer working so I can do future work, not pissing about over < 8 hours of missed work.

no its ok i rotate them daily. If I get ransomware on wednesday, I only lose wednesday's work. Which is ok because I will be spending wednesday getting it sorted. This is my PC. No derpy users who visit dodgy websites. No public facing services.

Two back up drives. Rotate them everyday. One in a safe place. One plugged into a dock syncing all day as you work. That is a bare minimum. I keep another drive at my parents that I rotate when I can.

only use raid if you need your computer to run uninterrupted, otherwise you are better off using that second drive as an offline/external backup. You should have at least two back up disks. I don't think a home server needs redundant disks. If your drive fails, turn off the server, swap the dead drive for one of your back ups, and order a new drive. That is ~20 minute of downtime that a business cannot afford, but a home user can.

I'm no US political expert but I always assumed it was just the libertarians that were for giving states more independence, as opposed to the authoritarians on that side. I think libertarians are a minority in the GOP.

IMO Net Neutrality is covering for a bunch of older regulations that need reform. We get people in OZ and NZ that want net neutrality even though we dont have the competition problems the US has. Its just partisan over-spill from USA media. We actually have some pretty good ISP and music and TV/sports packages that you wont get under net neutrality. Our competitive retail markets give us choice. There is also a technical argument against net neutrality, which I'm no expert in, but it was an interesting argument if you can find someone who can explain it - I wont try ill goof it up.

Remember when skype was cool and anti-establishment? I must be getting old.

I made a fake indian account just to see how facebook would treat me, because I know millions of people all share common indian names. I friended a few indians and within 24 hours I had thousands of friends & friend requests. I also had my account suspended until I could prove to facebook I was a real person.

Delete facebook. Facebook never signs you out. Facebook has your "internet fingerprint" always tracking you. On your DNS settings set facebook.com to point to 127.0.0.1

I have used all distros. Well not all obviously, but most. Just go with ubuntu for performance and stability. You can install all desktop environments on ubuntu. e.g. you can turn ubuntu into xubuntu or lubuntu. In defense of all other distributions, ubuntu can be slower to update application packages, but that is not a problem because you can install software manually. Ubuntu has "snap" software sandboxing which is not quite properly sandboxing web browsers yet, but when they do get it sorted it will be awesome. I can break down my experience with other distros if you like. just google bash programming. Its very straight forward. If you really want to learn linux you could install and use arch linux for a few months. I used Arch while at uni, coz it had a kernel version i needed for my wifi, and I learnt a lot from it. Arch broke on me twice, because the kernel + Xorg versions were not compatible with my proprietary nvidia driver. I think that was my only real problem with arch and its rolling release style.

There are wikis and guides for making persistence but many people have already done this work for you. Here are a few distros made for USB: these two are customizable http://puppylinux.com/ http://tinycorelinux.net/ this is made by US DoD. Web site has a security exception because the US military issue their own certs https://spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm Tails is made for using the tor network https://tails.boum.org/ That is all I can think of.

show me your apache conf

you want clamav