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Wow, that sounds like a pain. I’ve replaced regulators in two different cars and they were both much easier than that! The glass stays in the door and it’s just a few bolts and an electrical connector.

It’s also against the NEC in the US, I think. People expect low voltage wires to be low voltage and handle them as such. If a high voltage somehow ends up touching a low voltage bare wire, your friendly Ethernet cable could turn deadly.

The port on the device has flat metal contacts which a needle shouldn’t hurt.

I’ve never heard of people cleaning out the cable part of the plug since it isn’t kept in your pocket, but that part has small springy wire contacts which are probably fragile.

I think most people who go digging in their usb-c port know enough to be sort of gentle.

Was it windy? How did it end up behind the conveyor?

Excellent. Backups are key.

I’ve heard good things about Borg but I’ve never tried it. I use restic which sounds like it has similar features, but it supports S3 storage which is what I use.

Good news, you can use someone else’s. Backblaze is pretty cheap. It adds up to about $5USD per Terrabyte, and it’s pro-rated. So 500GB is $2.50,etc.

Hetzner recently introduced some S3 compatible object storage, too.

Object Storage and “S3” are just ways to refer to a certain type of system. To interact with it, you just need tools that have S3 support built in.

Restic is fantastic. If you’d like some help coming up with the command to use, let me know.

Pretty much every popular backup solution supports S3 type storage.

Anyway, backups are good.