• Gutless2615@ttrpg.network
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    11 months ago

    Counterpoint: digital ownership — true ownership when you have the actual files — is amazing. It’s the media panacea we’ve wanted for years. Storage is cheap, content is boundless, and if you curate your own collection you can usually get it anywhere you want.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.

        I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.

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        11 months ago

        Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.

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      11 months ago

      Too bad it’s not applicable to defective-by-design appliances like the PlayStation 5.