things are in fact going extremely badly but we'll see if they pick up starting tomorrow night for reasons that will preclude me being here for about a week (seeing my SO)
One time a friend and I were attempting to install a Linux partition on his personal machine with all his undergrad work on it. We installed Linux over everything else. We both leaned a valuable lesson about backups that day
Yeah I've done the same, a couple on site drives and cloud providers. Although since I've finished school, only thing I can think of worth saving are decades of photos