Mastodawn

C.Jul 3, 2025

Indeed.

Back In The Day, I used to sell and install hard drives in computers. The boss had gotten a deal on some slightly sketchy previous-generation disks - ancient Seagate (IIRC) 20MB drives (MFM interface! State of the art at the time was 60MB RLL disks, by Toshiba I think). Those felt spacious in an age of 808[68] computers.

I didn't get my first hard disk until my second Amiga, an A3000. I paid $1,800 for a 540MB drive. In terms of minimum wage at the time, that was about ten weeks of full-time work, before deductions.

My point? I'm with you. It boggles my mind that so many people still trust their data to "the cloud", which as you say is just "someone else's computer", even with the constant stories of accounts suddenly closed without recourse, credentials lost, cloud providers deleting files, and on and on. Storage is dirt cheap these days. At least keep a copy of everything - and I mean everything - on storage media that you own and physically possess.

There's a saying that there are two kinds of computing people: those who have experienced a data-loss incident, and those that will experience a data-loss incident.

#OldManYellsAtCloud #storage #disk #UphillBothWays #DataLoss #backups #local #LocalBackups

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bignose Jun 3, 2025

We had it tough. Call at dinner time, refer to the names of two of their children, ask how they liked their vacation last month and guess the last four digits of their credit card *if we were lucky*!

@ewen

#UphillBothWays #TellKidsThatToday #TheyWontBelieveYou

Krutonium://Mar 9, 2025

Honestly, banning Cellphones in School is like banning Calculators.

Instead of being afraid, maybe instead teach how to use it effectively. Teach good habits around it. They're going to have it with them for the rest of their lives, in all likelyhood, so making sure they can use it effectively should be a top priority.

The justification used for Calculators was "You're not going to always have one in your pocket!"

That ship fucking sailed didn't it? And I called that shit out in grade 2. Which was checks I think 1998/1999?

My point is that school boards that ban phones are luddites.

#School #Cellphones #BackInMyDay #UpHillBothWays #Calculators #WakeUpOldMan

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hairylarry Jan 23, 2025

@GrantMeStrength

Those were the days. Enter assembler from a magazine into your C64. Store it to cassette. Then when you wanted to play the game load it from cassette and wait ...

Still, it was better then reentering the assembler code.

#retro #uphillbothways

moved to: @theatl.social Sep 4, 2024

There's gold in them thar hills!
A bit surprised to see the route summary say 3100 ft uphill AND 3200 ft downhill (does that mean 6300 ft total elevation change!???), but the switchbacks didn't disappoint on this short sunset loop after supper.

#UphillBothWays #motorcycle

The Other Brook Aug 17, 2024

I figured out how to press the secret combination of buttons to get into debugging mode and run the "forced defrost" cycle on the refrigerator. It seems to have solved the problem of the INSANELY LOUD FAN.

But now I'm nostalgic for the old school fridges that you were told not to defrost with a screwdriver but you did anyway and then after you punctured a tube doing it and let out all the ozone-eating gremlins you set it out on the curb with the door removed because there was a latch that couldn't be opened from the inside and everyone knew kids would be drawn to it like moths to a flame, climb inside, somehow close the door, and suffocate. #EverythingWasBetterWhenIWasYounger
#GetOffMyLawn
#UphillBothWays
#MakeRefrigeratorsGreatAgain