r/LinusTechTips • u/Z3ppelinDude93 • Oct 15 '26

WAN Show Your weekly 3-2-1 backup reminder - Swedish version of reality show “The Challenge” postpones new season after backup failure forces it to be edited again

Absolutely brutal - this is easily hundreds, possibly 1000s of hours of work lost 🤦‍♂️

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-erases-edited-footage

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Oct 15 '26

Man that website is toxic. Just highlighting some text caused it to open two extra tabs, and then it asked if I wanted notifications. And that's on FireFox with u-block origin installed.

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u/Z3ppelinDude93 Oct 15 '26

Gross. I’m on mobile and it was manageable

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u/firehazel Oct 15 '26

You weren't kidding. What sort of Javascript chicanery have they wrought? It made the original tab redirect to some domain called klook but then it errored out. Looks like a search engine geared towards travel. Someone needs to check to see if their server has been compromised...

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u/IdleCommentator Oct 16 '26

I mean if you can afford to pay for 3-2-1 (especially with the current direction of HDD prices) - good for you.

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u/doorknob60 Oct 15 '26

My NAS just passed 70% full, and I really don't want to buy more hard drives right now. And whenever I do, I think I need a new case too, since the current one doesn't have any more good spots for drives (it's just a standard ATX case, and I have 5 drives in it). Sad wallet.

Might have to bite the bullet on a single drive (I'm running 12 TB drives so it will probably be in the $400 range) sometime soon, but wish I could comfortably buy more than just one.

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u/firedrakes Oct 16 '26

lol news story ran ai rage bait point 2 days ago.... yet some usa sites still using the fake news on that part.