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I remember from my days working for London Underground Ltd that whenever I'd blow my nose after a shift, my snot would have a concerning amount of black matter in it. The days I was off and not entering the subway, my snot didn't have this black particulate matter. I like to think it was my nose doing its job and keeping all that from entering my lungs, but I'll never know.

> call 911 and ask

Calls to 911 usually take 2-5 minutes for anyone to answer in Toronto when there is nothing particular going on (not kidding you, there is a message playing in the meantime like "we'll answer soon, please hold") because the govt is so hellbent on cutting costs that the emergency lines are understaffed. So imagine what happens when everyone does that... No operators for 15 minutes for anyone. Ontario really has become a ridiculous place.

Nevermind the humans who use far more than 30 gallons of water a day. According to this page[0], Australians used 554 gallons/day/capita in 2004-2005.

One human requires as much water as 19 Australian camels...

[0]: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject...

IIRC, bio fuels are worse than oil because it takes multiple oil barrels to come up with 1 barrel of bio oil.

> Try looking at things outside of tech/engineering orgs for places where tech applications would create value. A good friend works in supply chain optimization with a CS background. He tells me that basic automation and data analysis on CSVs larger than what Excel can open is seen as wizardry. He's in great standing in the org and is seen as invaluable.

Where and how do you find these kind of jobs? Anyone I know who works in this kind of non-tech company hates it because it's a cost center and they get all the negative side of our profession (no budget for anything, outdated/poor tools, unreasonable expectations and deadlines, and no respect from the rest of the org overall)

I use borg extensively as well. One thing I haven't found a good solution for yet is monitoring.

How do you all keep track of whether your backups succeeded? I'd like to receive an email if a scheduled backup didn't run. The only thing I have for now is rsync's feature where they warn you if your data hasn't changed by X kb in the last Y hours/days but I find this lacking because multiple machines write to my rsync account. It'll only warn me if none made any change but I'd never know if only a few failed. Same thing if there is nothing new to backup, I get an email from rsync.net but I don't know if every backup job failed or there is just no changes.

Bob was probably started with `-v` or `--debug`. Try turning down the loglevel next time you start `bob`.