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VMs can also be live migrated to another server in the cluster with no downtime and backups don't need to take the VM down to do their thing. If in the future you want to move to physical hardware, you can use something like Clonezilla to back it up (not needed often, but still, something to consider).

Both have their places, but those factors are the main ones that come into play of when I want to use a VM or LXC.

No! It has a lot of things I liked in it and overall I liked the story, but for whatever reason, it just felt like a slog whenever I actually read it! No clue why, but something with it was just difficult for me to get through. Since then, I've read a couple dozen other books, I think I'll try giving it another go now that I've read through it and know I do like the story, hopefully I'll find it more enjoyable this time around or maybe I'll try it in a different format and go for an audiobook this time around and see if that helps.

I liked the novella (Livesuit) in the same universe more for some reason (I had a hard time getting into TMoG though, maybe I'll try it again)

I can see that, honestly :-D

I don't know if this will change anything, but, there was apparently a re-release of book 1 where the author re-wrote parts of it to bring it into quality standards with the rest of the books ... not sure which one you read, but, maybe it would make a difference? I got interested in it after the re-record, so, I dunno how big the differences are.

With that said, these books are around the size of The Stand by Stephen King, each, so, if you read half of it, you definitely gave it a fair shot, lol

Audiobook: The Wandering Inn, book 13 by Pirateaba ... Kind of a standard "got sent to another world" litRPG, but it's quite fun with a well developed world and Andrea Parsneau brings life to every character

eBook: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice by Margaret Killjoy (book 3 of Danielle Caine) ... Not far in yet, but the series has been weird and good so far. A punk, queer, perpetual hitchhiker got introduced to magic by seeing a dead deer stomp a man to death and eat his heart. If that doesn't make you interested, the series probably isn't for you.

"I'm just not a tech person! ::most annoying giggle imaginable::"

You don't have to be a tech person to know how to use basic features on your damn phone! You're not a mechanic because you know how to use the radio!

For those that don't want to click: Detained one man, briefly

To make it worse, it'll quickly get figured out and people will be calling in "oh my God! he's trying to kill me", get transferred to a person and be like "so, it's 3pm in a Saturday and my neighbors are playing their music too loud!"

Bruce the Batdog, gotta love it, someone must have had a sense of humor and liked Batman!

Con Air ... why? No clue, I would have thought I'd go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

And a States right to force other States to return their runaway slaves

'Nuke it' or 'microwave it'