Most likely so that the vibrations from the speakers does not interfere with the records playback. As the needle should touch the LP as lightly a possible.

I did a year of literature when I didn’t know what to do in my life. I always liked computers so after that I applied to a computer science school. There I had a lot of fun and met a lot of people, some I still have in my life, learned some useful mindsets. Before I managed to get an actual degree I started working. From NOC engineer to software developer where I happily stayed. Did I need my higher education? Probably not, but I think it gave me another perspective and friends and many fun memories.

The restore process takes forever and sometimes fails. Last time I was forced to try every daily backup to several days before last backup to find one that could actually be restored. I have switched to borg (using Pika Backup for desktop and Borgmatic for servers). No restores have failed since.

You should check out https://solidproject.org/ and see how much overlap you have?

Mr. Recordman by Ugly Kid Joe

Sir Cleanalot

Borgmatic also made setting up Borg a breeze.

Mods are humans. Humans are flawed. What does this have to do with Lemmy?

See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324 and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7168. Then take a look at the dates the RFCs were published :)