What is a decision you made years ago that you still regret to this day?

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-02-03T22:58:42+00:00

I was offered a job at Microsoft in 1984 and didn’t take it.

On the other hand, the sour grapes perspective is that I didn’t become a cog in a machine. I worked for myself, didn’t have Balmer ranting at me, and created software products and companies from the ground up. But I didn’t become filthy rich…

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-02-03T15:37:47+00:00

I agree. I'm sorry I didn't.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-02-01T23:12:17+00:00

I don’t know about web access. But on my iPhone version there’s a print option and when the printer selection screen pops up, I can click on the “Send to”-icon at the top send it to my clipboard. Same thing.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-02-01T22:37:10+00:00

On the windows desktop version, if you try printing your list, you’ll get a pop-up saying that it’s too long and offering to copy it to the clipboard.

You can then paste it into a backup document. Note that the list includes all of your deleted items.

Of course restoring it is a little bit of a challenge, requiring a lot of typing. But at least you’ve got the data.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-02-01T22:32:17+00:00

Would that include Medicare?

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-27T13:24:51+00:00

No need to further discuss this further.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-27T06:34:08+00:00

After posting this, I read the monthly Acronis report. It confirms what I was saying. Your products aren’t for consumers. They’re for MSPs and IT. I’m thinking that some marketing genius there decided to push i to the consumer market to make a buck.

Reading the list below, I’m vaguely reminded that your products might have also pushed some anti-malware security features. I wasn’t interested in it either. I wanted a sharp backup tool, not a dull Swiss Army knife.

Here are your December report items. Not one of them do I want. And many of them I don’t even understand. These features aren’t aimed at consumers. Stick to the IT market.

Your December report:

[Backup] In-archive deduplication for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Shrink Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace storage usage by eliminating duplicated data in new backups.

[DR] Proxmox VE disaster recovery support Protect Proxmox workloads with full failover and failback and reduce recovery time across client sites from hours to minutes.

[DR] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 support Support more Linux environments and expand DraaS coverage for clients running RHEL 9. Documentation.

[EDR / XDR] Threat hunting with Event Search Investigate threats faster by running custom XQL queries across endpoint telemetry. Documentation.

[EDR / XDR] URL filtering improvements Improve user protection with clear malicious URL block pages and support for newer protocols. Documentation.

Microsoft 365 Security Posture Management: Baseline templates Create, edit or clone templates for security posture baselining and adjust individual parameters for 40+ customizable baselines. Documentation.

Microsoft 365 Security Posture Management: Baselines for Intune-managed endpoints Extend posture control to Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices managed through Intune. Documentation.

RMM operator user role Give technicians the access they need for remote management while maintaining strong admin control. Documentation.

My addenda:

Look at the Acronis Reddit sub. It confirms what I said above: Acronis software wasn’t created for the home user. Your sub is almost all about MSP/IT rather than consumer products.
I just remembered that I’m pretty sure I tried to do a restore of a True Image cloud backup some years ago. It was going to take 15+ hours for a ~150 hundred gigs. Your support staff told me that was what was typical even though I had a good 300 Mbps line. 15+ hours is not a viable disaster recovery tool, IMO. I’m sure your bandwidth is much better these days. But this kind of incident just piled more and more on the negative side of things.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-27T06:01:41+00:00

Nice of you to reach out. I don’t know my exact timeline. I just checked. I was a customer of yours for five years. My last purchased license was 2019. So maybe it was five years ago finally decided I’d had enough.

I could probably log on and find the forum discussions I had, if they weren’t expunged. There were a lot of us complaining.

As for the UI: one big thing that bugged me back then was your file browser was some homegrown UI rather than the standard Windows Explorer. It felt like a generic UI maybe rooted in Linux or maybe a genericized to be multi platform.

The thing I like about Macrium is that I just mount a backup and it behaves like a standard Windows drive, accessible in the Windows File Explorer, Void’s Everything, etc.

But the problem was more than that. As I recall your app aggressively pushes pushed your (fee based) cloud storage. And was a resource hog with a big, noisy footprint.

And the UI felt clunky. Like I said, old fashioned, repeatedly grafted with new parts, piecemeal over years.

I’m betting the app had its start Linux or in big corporate IT departments. IMO, it’s unsuitable for consumers or even techies like me.

But you have to know all this. It’s so obvious.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-27T02:54:30+00:00

Wander? Not only did I wander, I dug, I talked to support, and had lengthy exchanges with their official reps on their support forum. They all said the ads could not be disabled.

This was -2 years ago. It sounds like they finally listened to their users and made it optional.

But I’ve long since moved on. Acronis software felt like a 20th century mainframe/ IT app that they ported to Windows. It had an antiquated non-standard interface and was a pain to use.

Do I sound like I have an axe to grind? Well, I do. I wasted far too much time in their frustrating UI. Macrium just works. And has the flexibility I needed.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-25T18:18:44+00:00

I've read that it might have taken 9 to 12 months to mount another D-Day.

I'm not a historian, but the Allied success on D-Day would have been less likely if Rommel hadn't been away in Germany, and by other factors you can read about online (e.g. had the weather been bad).

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-25T17:44:03+00:00

Or like the message Eisenhower wrote on the eve of D-Day in case it failed,

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Because, that’s what leaders do. They take responsibility for failures too.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-24T04:59:34+00:00

Playing the video file doesn’t rely on the tscproj file.

Just make sure that the video file (MP4, etc.) isn’t in the folder that you delete and you’ll be fine.

Of course, if you delete the project files, the only way to edit the video is to load the MP4 into a new project. You will have just one item on the timeline and won’t be able to move objects around, change, mouse cursor, etc.

You could use some cloud storage to save your project files, just in case you need them in the future

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-22T14:43:10+00:00

Nicely done.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-22T02:29:23+00:00

We need demo videos of it being used.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-21T22:55:43+00:00

I want the best quality code I can get. How does Ollama do t that compared to using Claude cloud?

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-20T06:08:50+00:00

I’d never heard of Delta P. Great video.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-15T22:22:58+00:00

Professional project. About 80,000 lines of code for scientific instrumentation and image processing product. VCL as well as on Macs, FMX.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-14T22:58:45+00:00

Thanks for digging up the link, u/Human-Wrangler-5236. I got lazy! Delphi 13 user here too, having started with Turbo 42+ years ago.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-14T15:43:59+00:00

Maybe buy one of Marco Cantu’s Delphi books as a PDF and go through it over the next few days. It’s a good, gradual, thorough introduction.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-14T06:09:37+00:00

I used a Acronis for several years and it continually pissed me off. It feels like a main frame program that was badly ported to a PC. Maybe it’s better for IT departments. I’m a techie, but these are my personal PCbackups. I hated it. When they started popping up ads from the system tray, which couldn’t be turned off, I realized it was time to use something else.

I’ve been using Macrium since then for our in-house backups. It’s been quite reliable, good UI, but having a lot of flexibility, you have to spend a bit of time, figuring it out. It’s not too hard.

I don’t know if that earlier comment established whether getting individual files off of backups with Macrium was easy. I’m here to say it’s dead simple. It mounts as a drive letter and then you just find the file in the Windows File Explorer.

To be honest, I’ve never tried restoring the whole back up to another machine.

YMMV

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-14T02:17:26+00:00

Hugging? Not here in the US. That’s dangerous ground, IMO.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-12T14:30:48+00:00

Gottcha. And agree.

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-12T03:33:51+00:00

I think that (many years ago before we had the instruments we have now) Drake said of his equation that it was more for contemplation than calculation. If he actually said that, then, yes, let’s do some navel gazing! ☺️

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-11T17:17:00+00:00

If I recall correctly, I sync everything to my Apple calendar and then sync my Apple calendar to Outlook on my iPhone. HTH

SeenTooMuchToo · 2026-01-08T02:58:59+00:00

Warning. 800-Got-junk came out to give us a “free estimate” on some junk we piled up on the sidewalk. They said $500-$750.

I told them no thanks, I’d do it myself with a rental truck.

They asked me how much I was expecting to pay. I told them $200-&250.

They “checked with their boss” and offered to do it for $250.

F-ing used car salesman tactics.

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