That's rough. But now that it's all gone, consider moving to disappearing messages. It's kind of freeing when you don't have to worry about the burden of immutability.
When I was younger, I bought a fair bit of music CDs, mostly for the sake of collecting. To this day, most are still unopened in their original plastic wrap. I no longer have a disc player in any of my computers, nor any functional discman left in my possession, so listening/ripping them is probably never going to happen.
Sometimes I see people complaining about digital versions, but looking back, it probably really don’t matter nearly as much for vast majority of the cases…
Digital data is extremely short lived. Unless it's being maintained well and copied, it will decay regardless of storage medium fairly rapidly. And as you point out data interface techniques are themselves quite short lived. Storing data as something accessible without specialist technology, so plainly readable, instructions on how to build the reader and decode the data, etc.
Future technology may improve this by having historians interested in historical records wanting ways to recover it, at least.
I don't know enough about how ActivityPub works to be sure, but I suspect the right way to archive a Lmy instance would be to create software that acts like another instance, federates with the one you want to archive, and saves the raw stream of ActivityPub packets.
I have emails going back to YAM on Amiga in 2002, some games I wrote for GBA and mobile platforms that don't exist any more. I have some old IM logs but reading that was so cringe I should delete it, with wipe not rm. Some of the obscure old music I have isn't available even on Soulseek (except when I'm sharing it). Source code of old programs I and my friends wrote. And photos, of course.
I have some questions:
What read/write speeds?
Is it even writeable in a reasonable way? (CD/DVD burners blast your disk with a laser and "cook" darker patches that are your data)
How long does it live on this disk?
Yes, Ubuntu 20 isn't EOL yet. A lot of those downloads are probably IT staff or developers that are running Ubuntu servers or developing on those versions.
ETA: We still have some RHEL 7 and clones at my day job
RAID is your friend. If you can't afford to lose one, you might have a bad time (applies to all drives anyway). Manufacturer refurbs are your best bet.
Maybe with tab unloading Firefox doesn’t use a ton of resources for a billion tabs. But my 6 core Mac mini chugs with the way I browse the net. A freshly loaded session vs a “well used” one is like 20% CPU and 16+ gigs of ram. Maybe a fully specced out Mac Pro wouldn’t notice but this 8th Gen. i5 cries in pain.
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