It's going to take some time. I've been there as have plenty of people who came to me for support when it happened to them.
While right now you're thinking of it in terms of loss, you can also celebrate the lightness that comes from not having the data anymore.
There's more..
What was the funniest thing you remember that was in there?
Now consider that you remember it. You don't need to check, you remember the things that made that memory funny.
So, take a deep breath, add it to the list of stupid things you've done to date that didn't kill you and then go and drink a glass of water and go for a walk.
Now consider that you remember it. You don't need to check, you remember the things that made that memory funny.
I'm only 25 and it feels like so many of the things I have are just memories. It feels like my life is slowly coming to a close and I don't know if the future is even there.
And you know what the worst part is? I don't really remember much anyways.
My 20 year old cat died and all I can do is remember him and look at pictures. I don't want to have to remember things just to keep them.. I'm just not reliable enough.
No idea if you'd enjoy it but I've been keeping a (digital) diary since 2018 (in a .txt file) and for me it's really fun either checking out what I did this day last year (two, three years ago) and also randomly reading around. It's a really nice addition to having photos (and my dreams would be to somehow combine the two, easily). So many things I'd never remember without this, like the one time the electricity went out for a afternoon in my town. I'm just writing a few sentences each morning of what I did (ate, worked, watched, felt, thought) yesterday each morning.
you can also celebrate the lightness that comes from not having the data anymore.
For years after my son’s suicide I backed up our texts. From one daily android update to the next, phone after phone. I always bought a phone that I knew I could root so I could ensure the ability to restore these backups. Then I got careless during one rom flash and lost them. It was a huge weight lifted when that happened. I realized that I had never once gone and reread any of them since the week after his death. And the constant backing up caused so much stress.
I have the impression that they're recommending this drive just because of the affiliate link money.
They link to a review that they made SIX years ago and at that time it was the fastest drive. Six years it's a geologic era for this kind of stuff. That review is outdated and invalid if compared to modern hardware.
IMHO it doesn't make sense in 2024 to buy a server PCIe 3.0 drive at enterprise prices when you can get a much faster seagate ironwolf pcie 4.0 nvme drive for half the price and in 2TB configuration.
oh of course, I just meant that if the Vimm's team would remove that restriction on the site, the community would be able to dump the roms and help archive them way easier than if we had to sit and wait for individual iso's to finish downloading
well considering the circumstances of having Nintendo going after them, I just think it would make sense to get all the help they can to dump and archive files to help keep the games preserved
I think you misunderstood. they don't restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.
Digital? No. You want durable, you go physical. Print the photos with real archive-quality processes and materials. Same for video and audio, but on film. Keep a 3-2-1 backup in climate-controlled environments.
If you really really want digital, the media doesn't matter, because you'll always have to migrate to current formats. Someone will have to be actively maintaining it.
Yeah, I'd say at least every ten years I've replaced all my media. Hard drive failures, tape upgrades, physical media changes, tech just moves so quickly. Even if the media survives 100 years, will we still have the tech to read it?
One thing to keep in mind: if someone gave you a 5.25" floppy disk with this type of data on it, even if the data was perfectly readable, would you have any way to do it? You'd need to hunt down someone whos into retro technology and hope you can figure out how to decode the information. The format itself became obsolete, so even if the data would theoretically be accessible, the means to access said data may not be.
Point is, what are the chances that CD drives will be around in hundreds of years outside of a museum or personal collection? They're already becoming more and more uncommon after only a couple decades. But there really isn't a great solution to this, especially when it comes to video, because you can't just print it out.
Side note, are you sure that CD Golds are more durable than M-Disk?
My issue with this is that a good chunk of the older tabs end up pointing to 404 errors. I wish it were possible to load the version that was cached when I first visitted a given page, like a local Wayback machine( I also wish that were more aggressive about pulling in pages ...).
Then there's Amazon letting vendors reuse product codes so some pages end up pointing to things I know I've never looked at before and would never try to save like so.
It's nutty that we haven't had a proper offline mode in like 20, maybe 25 years. This was something every browser had in the 90s. Loading from cache was the default, even. Now it's like, I'm not sure why Firefox even has a cache folder. They bend over backwards to prevent you from using it.
Before you tell me that Firefox has an offline mode, yeah, I know. It's basically useless.
I would love a way to have my browser automatically store a local, static copy of everything I view.
Lost music. It was an underground artist who quit in the mid 2010s before archive culture was really a thing. I've had people dm me looking for it before. I keep it offline only out of respect for the author who wants to stay gone because the reason he quit a decade ago was harassment.
at the same level of importance, every time I've gotten a new computer or operating system since 2013 or so, I've backed up every single user folded (pictures, videos, documents, etc) onto an external hard drive. I have a lot of good memories there that I really do not want to lose.
I believe you're approaching this from the wrong angle - this isn't a tech problem, this is a people problem.
save them for posterity so that it lasts for periods like 200 years and more. This allows great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren to have access.
Instead of trying to get media that can last 200+ years, just teach your kids and grandkids the importance of keeping your family legacy alive. This will be way more effective than any medium you can come up it. Storage technologies change but the data remains the same, the future generations should be able to gradually upgrade storage mediums as necessary so the information keeps existing.
I always bought the cheapest discs for backing up my media and out of maybe 1000 disks, checked last year, only 15 or so were either partly or completely unreadable
The last burnt CDs were in 2k2, I just kept em on their spindles on my bottom shelf (not protected any more than that thru hot and cold) and all but 15ish were toast. Might have gotten lucky
I had some CD-Rs that rotted within a few years. I was devastated, because at the time CD-Rs were hyped up as the most durable of any consumer media, and storage was expensive. I had tons of stuff that was ONLY on CD or DVD. That's how I archived everything.
There was an old site that did a comprehensive analysis and ranked different brands of CD-R and DVD-R discs into tiers. My main takeaway at the time was Verbatim or bust. There were some other brands that got discs from the same manufacturer, but not consistently so it was something of a gamble. IIRC Sony was one of the better ones, but Verbatim was the safest choice.
I can't say I've tested any of my old discs in the past 10 or maybe even 15 years. I copied my most important data into newer media, but I still have a ton of discs I should probably clone to my NAS. One of these years...
Then came M-discs, which as far as I know are still considered legit. They never really caught on, and production has either halted entirely or is at least limited. I never used them myself.
I had a bad habit whenever I would go to reinstall an OS to just copy the entire user folder into one of many places on my largest hard drive. I had at least 4 or 5 of these. So tons of it was cache files.
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