Calculate that out hourly and suddenly $110 an hour sounds pretty worth it for some people's time. Time is money, right?

Oh dude, you're preaching to the choir. I had the same wake up call when someone got into my Steam account and spent like 200 bucks buying skins for games I don't even play. That sucked. Now I use Authy on my phone and it's way less annoying than I thought, plus it backs up my codes if I get a new phone. Definitely worth the extra few seconds for peace of mind.

Man I had a 250MB Zip drive back in like 2003 and I loved it. I got a whole box of disks from a friend who worked at a recording studio and I used em to shuttle music files around before thumb drives got cheap. You're right about that 2GB version being a mess - I knew a guy who bought one and the damn thing would eat disks like nobody's business. I still got my old drive in a box somewhere in the garage, probably dead as a doornail but I can't bring myself to toss it. Nothing beats the feeling of clicking those disks in and hearing that little whirr sound, way better than staring at a spinning circle on Dropbox.

the "sorting by month into Drive folders" thing is genius, i do something similar but i use Google Photos locked folder for the really personal stuff then batch download groups of photos to Drive by year. what saved me the most time was using the file manager on my laptop to sort by date modified, made it way easier to spot the random old memes and screenshots id forgotten about. also pro tip if you have a Samsung phone the built in storage cleaner in device care will flush out empty folders and old apk files from your gallery, cleared like 2GB more for me that way.

Rinse the rice first, use a 2:1 water ratio, and keep the lid on tight. @mitchell.terry is right though, cookers are just easier.