Backblaze, a company of which I’m quite fond, just sent out an email notice of a price increase to their computer backup service.1 Starting October 3, the new pricing for the Backblaze Computer Backup service is: $9 a month, or $99 a year, or $189 for two years I’ve been a Backblaze user since they were ... www.dandy.cat

@dandycat just read your post… and unrelated to the subject of the post, how do you achieve the ellipsis with a popup right inline?

@numericcitizen That's the Bigfoot plug-in. @jsonbecker adapted it for Micro.blog. You can install it in the Plug-ins page.

In my text, I'll include something like this and the plug-in formats it how I prefer:

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[^1]: An example footnote.

@dandycat good article! As their price ticked up, I decided to switch to a SYnology NAS. We’ll see if that was a good idea in course. A few yearly subscriptions quickly paid for one + five drives + UPS, especially if you have two computers in the house (or more). The only real down side is it’s on site.

@elliotali I’ll have to reconsider a Synology for this purpose. With that option available, the only thing keeping me from not using Backblaze at this point is its off-site nature. Regardless, I expect a lot of pondering and research in my future.

@dandycat How did you go with this?

@elliotali I’m currently sticking with Backblaze for off-site backups and an attached SSD for a local Time Machine backup. My Backblaze subscription was renewed shortly before the price increase, so I want to get my money’s worth on that expense.

I do have a spare Synology floating around somewhere; I think I’ll use that for other purposes until next year when the Backblaze subscription comes due again. I’ll probably switch over then.