Then:
"Grandma, why are you saving those bits of twine and pieces of used foil? You can just go to the store and buy new stuff."
"Grandson, I grew up during the Depression"
Now:
"Dad, why are you collecting all those DVDs and saving files to disk and all that? You can just go to the Internet and find that."
"Kids, I grew up during the Great Ensh*ttification..."
@MayhamMonday @ai6yr also a GenXer. My parents were born in '40 and '41, and they've kept traits of their parents in saving a lot of stuff, just in case.
I have tonnes of DVDs and BluRays, and I hoard actual paper books. I prefer these to digital, but I do admit to having lots of eBooks and streaming stuff because it's a lot less weight when going somewhere. I do have a portable BluRay player, though, and that's come in handy countless times.
Also, there's a nostalgic aspect to all this.
Kids: Why do you have so many disks and thumb drives?
Dad: Someday, you will learn about backup strategy grasshopper.
You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with backups and those who has not lost all their data yet.
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Sure, but it doesn’t make that funny slogan. ;)
@fiona @ai6yr Used to be able to search for anything and find it, someone always had a blog on what you were looking for, but those things can't be found and so much of the internet is disappearing while the rest appears to be unsearchable.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-dead-links-webpages-online-content-b2549215.html
Well… back in the olden days, we all helped each other. No matter what someone posted asking for, some Usenet lurker would burst forth with the answer. Could be anything, 12-squirrel stew, specs for the Hubble, text of a new bill, somebody knew where it was.
It wasn't instant gratification like now, but often we made new friends!
The new year - and decade - is the perfect time to begin anew with ourselves and let go of what is no longer serving us. Sometimes, we refer to this type of letting go as “releasing our cows,” inspired by a story told by the Buddha. In a 2006 Dharma talk, Thay shares beautifully about what it means
Back when ftp replaced decwrl, I had a diaper-box full of archived shareware floppies and thought, what's the point, and then FTP closed down, but we had Usenet, which became too expensive, and then PTP, oh yay, everything is everywhere, but then came Spotify, Netflix, and our long-tail archives are now on ssd. This happens over and over 😅
@teledyn M-DISC are archival quality, available in both DVD and Blu-ray formats. They're rated for 100+ years which is good enough for my purposes. (Marketing claims 1000 years if stored properly)
They cost about 3x normal discs and your burner has to support the higher power mode necessary to actually write to them but they can be read back by any standard player.
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