Having issues with it as well. Mostly when downloading things that need me to be logged in somewhere

But it’s a gigantic waste of energy and time when you could just download a 2mb package and be done with it.

That’s why you do regular restore tests on separate systems. That should be standard procedure for any company. A fully encrypted disk should be noticable immediately.

If your backups are online and not in a warehouse, you are doing it wrong. Even my own personal backups are on disconnected disks. What a bunch of amateurs.

Holy shit one week? How is anyone supposed to recover after something like a C-section? My wife needed nearly a month afterwards to be able to walk normally again…

Sample size, 50 students. Lol nothing to see here. This has no value whatsoever.

Counterexample with sample size >1 million:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-08-09-no-evidence-linking-facebook-adoption-and-negative-well-being

For a handful of servers, try zabbix. Every distribution has a packaged zabbix agent. It has everything: web ui, a way to Auto discover things with a bit of setup, nice graphs, alerting, LDAP User Management if you need it, a way to define per person/group alerting/notification schedules. And the community is big enough that many common services (fail2ban/postfix/MySQL/etc.) have premade custom monitoring scripts. Adding your own metrics is also very easy.

For personal use, I don’t bother with databases on k8s. They are waaay easier to manage if you just let your host distribution run it as a regular service and Upgrade it through that