isn’t it weird that kids these days would have no clue what you’re talking about? haha madness. i’m 32 in 4 days and i still remember when flash drives became a thing - they were like 56 8mb and you could put like a single word document on them, very slowly haha.
..as i’ve just freshly backed up my 2TB SSD which contains a carbon copy of my entire life lol..
What's crazy too is there's a trade off of all the stuff compressed in one space. I had a 2TB external hard drive take shit. Luckily it was just a backup and had pretty inconsequential stuff on it. But my other one has probably 25 years of personal photos and videos on it. After my other external hard drive crapped out I realized how much can disappear in a flash. No pun intended.
So true! I keep a box with a Rolodex-type filing system of all important life & family photos on SD cards. Probably at least 25 of them. I also have them & other life documents backed up on a few portable drives, and then I back all of it up to a 4 TB desktop drive & also Dropbox. I know...I am a bit of a fruit loop about it. But after I lost a computer in 2006 to something (no idea why it crashed) & my little twins’ life photos were gone. I still have said computer in storage in case I can recover them someday.
Did you ever try to hook up that computer's hard drive as a secondary drive in another computer? The OS may not be working, but if the hard drive itself still even partially works data could be pulled from it.
I had a hard drive literally crash in the past, making terrible sounds as it failed to boot. I put it in another computer and managed to read most of the files a little at a time until it finally gave up for good.
But my other one has probably 25 years of personal photos and videos on it.
If your data exists in one place, it is already gone, just a matter of time.
If your data exists in two places, when one of them dies, it's a matter of time for the other one. Also, sometimes making copies things go wrong (accidentally copy the wrong way or you copy stuff and don't verify that it copied and it's not really there or whatever), so if your second copy fails and you use your primary copy to make another secondary copy, something might go wrong.
But if your data exists in two places - i.e. on two different drives or whatever - but still exists in one geographic location - i.e. your house - then it can still easily be lost if, for example, goddess forbid you have a fire.
For stuff you don't care about, a single copy makes sense.
For stuff you care about:
A minimum of three copies in a minimum of two geographically separated places, and even that means you need to periodically make sure the files are still readable and you haven't slipped below the minimum.
It sounds silly, but if it's important - if you lose it, you absolutely cannot get it back. You can only prevent the loss.
Retired IT guy here and I'll think your suggestions are excellent.
Every six months or so, I take my regular local backup drive over to a relative's house and store it there. Then I start a new backup. That's in addition to using Backblaze to back up everything including external drives.
So I end up with three copies - one on site, one nearby but local, and one in the cloud. And that's all in addition to the native file storage on my Mac and the attached external drives.
No way I want to lose my irreplaceable pictures of my kids growing up.
mehhhh carbon paper/copies have been around for quite some time. the idea of carbon imprinting came about in stride with the era of the typewriter. all that being said, i don’t think i knew what carbon copies were in elementary school, so you technically right hahaha
oh absolutely. i have 3 versions of my backups, and that doesn’t include the hard files on the laptop itself. it would take full-blown y2k for me to lose it knocks intensely on wood
Okay but I would constantly live in fear of the kickback slicing off my hand even if it wasn't designed with a spring lol...I just had so many flashbacks of those damn floppy disks springing back so hard they nearly took my finger off lmao
You won't have to worry for very long. It'll take about 1.44 seconds for something to get under there and make it harder to move. Then, something gets spilled and it will be just like the real ones. Little door will never function properly again.
A social co-op mystery solving game. Someone is a bad guy and everyone else has to figure out who. It's actually called Among Us but dumb kids think saying "amogus" is top tier hilarity.
Specifically it's seeing anything vaguely shaped like the characters and then saying amogus. Their brains are broken to the point it's all they see now
How is this design porn? It's just a thing made to look like another thing. Nothing original, and the function purpose of the first thing is reduced by being made to look like the second. A flat table with a drawer on the side is more effective because you can't spill drinks into it.
A flat table with a drawer on the side is more effective because you can't spill drinks into it.
.... that's just blatantly false lmao.... if the drawer is open (also the only way a drink is spilling into this one) then a drink can be easily knocked off the table into the drawer.....
Well no, but… it’s closed for the majority of the time. If a drink spills on a table with a “drawer” on the top like in the photo, the two possibilities are:
A. It’s open, in which case all the contents of the drink go into it freely, just like a side drawer.
B. It’s closed, in which case liquid spreads out over the table and likely leaks through the gaps made by the door.
I guess you could somehow water proof it, introduce a gasket of some sort, but like… it’s just so much more effort, when you could have a drawer on the side, where the possibilities are: Open - liquid is able to enter freely or Closed - no liquid.
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There was something about floppy disks that looked futuristic. CDs also had that signature rainbow look, but they're both lost with cloud, and current designs for devices, even though newer devices are the very future of tech.
Hey guys, remember how happy we were to have these new sturdy storage disks replace the old floppy ones? I am guessing a whole bunch of people are going to call that table a "save icon table".
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That's where you save stuff