Two tools worth using:

DMDE

Photorec

If the data is extremely important make a back up first.

Most things decrease in price as production scales up.

Is called Economies of scale.

There’s also a lot hype around process improvements such as Six Sigma. Some of this has come out of factories and into IT and software dev such as kanban boards and agile.

Strangely most think that software development does not have economies of scale.

It won’t matter that much UNLESS a specific setting you might want is disabled such as virtualization.

Consider checking now if virtualization is enabled or disabled. If your BIOS settings are fairly permissive it isn’t that big of a deal. But if they are restrictive it can make it a pain in the ass to work around.

Several presidents have put tax dollars to work on medical research. For example the The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) paved the way for money for the PreP trials in 2005.

Obama kicked off precision medicine and gene research.

Obama’s HITECH Act reformed HIPAA in a way that improved outcomes for patients and the industry.

But yea, everything is black and white. Conflicts in Africa and the middle east are the only concern I could ever have.

I especially do not care at all about any medical advancements or harm reductions.

Everyone must survive and no one can ever be harmed or everything is lost.

You know you sound just like the every sperm is sacred anti abortion activists.

War = so bad we must sabotage anyone involved in war and trade all our liberties, freedoms, health, etc just to not have war!

I let perfect be the enemy of good.

I’m doing my part, for the Republicans!

People are always ready with some morality test but the cold hard truth is trying to enforce your absolutes on others is not going to work out. It just backs you into a corner supporting a turd sandwich. Compromises suck though. Can’t have that. You do you.

I mean, are you incapable of having any sympathy for individuals that walked into what seemed to be peaceful but turned into a warzone?

Sure, the Israel Palestine conflict has been going on since 1948 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict

But if your work told you to go on a quick in and out trip to Jamaica would you know there’s an older persistent conflict that could cause you harm? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_political_conflict

Shit Sudan and Myanmar both have higher body counts so far. You check with the state department and lists of all armed conflicts before all your trips?

Hurry up and wait.

If you’re a specialist that’s needed for a specific task you might have to travel a long way.

You probably already have bags packed. You probably already have a limited power of attorney or will. You might write some checks out for rent/bills. You might make sure your gf/wife/dependa has some condoms ready for Jody. You might want to make sure you have childcare someone to watch your dog, someone to start or charge your car while gone or you might arrange for someone to put the car on parked status for cheaper insurance and just jump it or buy a new battery when you get back.

You prolly make sure all your CBTs are done and maybe if you don’t already have it done you get a checklist of shit to do on base. That quickly turns into a series of quests just like that video game you hate.

Then if you do deploy you get a call and possibly have to call some else on a phone tree and go HURRY UP AND WAIT.

Why?

We’ve pretty much been at war nonstop since WWII.

They just called it the cold war.

Cooler heads have prevailed, for the most part, for a long time. The shock and awe overwhelming force doctrine has worked when we needed it. There’s questions on if it will work on a near peer in a new battle space featuring Internet, space, drones, and unconventional warfare.

It’s likely a near peer would target our water and power infrastructure with hacks. It’s possible many civilians could die without even using nuclear weapons from that. It’s possible the Internet would never be the same afterwards.

But so far cooler heads have prevailed. The military industrial complex might be great at extracting tax dollars but the idea is that all that spending will work to prevent WWIII by being prepared to fight it.

We might have to fight that war one day. Why worry? We spend plenty of money to be prepared to do so.