As others gave said, the solution is a VM but once setup correctly, you won’t notice.

If Windows is your primary computer, install HyperV, the built in VM manager for Windows. Then create a Linux VM for your NAS.

Once setup, you won’t even notice. HyperV auto saves and reloads the VM whenever you reboot. You don’t even need a window open for the VM, it runs in the background until you run the manager to connect to the VM and see it in a window.

If Linux is your primary OS, do the reverse and put Windows in a Linux VM.

Don’t hassle with Proxmox, etc. That’s for running lots of VM’s and toggling between them.

You might want to consider that backups only protect very old data from ransomware.

Ransomware works by getting on a machine and sitting for several months before activating. During that time, your data is encrypted but you don’t know because when you open a file, your computer decrypts it and shows you what you expect to see. So your backups are working but are saving files that will be lost once the ransom ware activates.

The only solution is to frequently manually verify the backup from a known safe computer. Years ago I looked for something to automate this but didn’t find it. (Something like a raspberry pi with no Internet that can only see the PC it’s testing, compares a known file, then touches the file so it gets backed up again.)

I wish companies and people were held to the standards of their own arguments.

For example because X claimed they don’t owe anything because they changed their name from Twitter, any business dealing with X would legally be allowed to use the same argument.

Population declines have happened many times in history and were always a good thing. It takes more resources to raise a child then to care for elderly. When the elderly die it frees up resources for everyone making the next generation more prosperous.

The Black Plague, WW1, WW2, all were huge population declines. WW2 killed almost exclusively the best workers leaving the elderly. The result was a global boom.

If population declines no one needs to do a land grab. There’s enough for everyone.

then it’s a TON more equipment,

Then why isn’t it sent to Ukraine?

plus a TON more troops.

Ukraine has said they need supplies, not troops.

That doesn’t make any logical sense. You say it’s a financial strain to send equipment and propose sending NATO in to help. Where is NATO getting their equipment from?

ITS THE SAME EQUIPMENT.

I’m attempting to be realistic in a thread filled with young kids who aren’t well educated on modern war.

Modern war isn’t WW2 armor thrusts where you take the capital and the war is over.

NATO needs to supply Ukraine so they win. Then you can start talking about how NATO could defeat Russia in 3 days. Show that we can win first.

I don’t know anything about Moscow other than what I read. As to speaking about Moscow with resentment, that’s exactly how all of the rural US talks about DC.

Other than a nuclear strike, all politicians would have plenty of time to evacuate. Modern communications makes their physical location irrelevant.

They never left the Urals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovilikha_Plants

Edit for the downvoters: I did more googling.

Here’s more

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ramping-up-war-production/32658857.html

One in the list is near Moscow.

If you want to downvote, show your list of weapon factories in Moscow.

No, it’s in the Urals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motovilikha_Plants

Yes, you take Moscow in 3 days like Kabul, then what? It has no military value.

How many will then die over the decades to road side bombs?

I hate jingoistic bullshit. 3days? How many years were we in Afghanistan?

Ukraine troops are battle hardened and have NATO tanks and weapons. They are holding on but territory changes are tiny. Modern war isn’t WW2 blitzkrieg.

Occupying Moscow is like occupying DC. The politicians will fly to safety and you are left occupying a city of low level administrative personnel and restaurants. Nothing of military value is manufactured in Moscow just like DC.

Thanks for doing the summary for me!

The difference is Israel is buying the weapons. If Ukraine showed up with a billion dollars , they’d get whatever they wanted immediately too.

And they want tourists!

https://www.cnn.com/travel/afghanistan-tourism-under-the-taliban/index.html

Trust us, we won’t chop your head off this time!

Ukraine and Russia are uniting into one country. Just not the way Putin envisioned.

I don’t understand the criticism. Empty apartments keep real estate prices low. It’s the same government intervention that the US does with farmers to keep food prices low by paying for unused food surpluses.

Meanwhile, in the US where there is no government sponsored surplus of housing, young adults can’t find affordable housing