Tape presents its own share of problems. If not strored in some very particular conditions, like temp, humidity, and others that I can’t recall, they can stick to tbe adjacent layers, become brittle, curved, etc…

Bog standard? They are more like “god knows what’s inside these” and cionsidering I have a solid suspicion there is no god…

There is a fairly reasonable theory floating around that no name drives have B quality chips, so these may have started with chips that were iffy from the start. Id like to see a test of this type , carried out by Backblaze, with thousands of drives.

Where is bluesky based? As far as I know you have to follow the laws of where you are based. Otherwisse we’d have to follow the lowest common denominator, like north korea, or afghanistan or the like

double the Ai?

Ignorant here. Would mining rigs work for this?

I have to have Windows, a VM at least, for reasons.

A nameless install, decrapified with Chris Titus’ decrapifier, installer and streamliner script is actually decent

Is waterfox compatible with all or most firefox extensions? Also, can you import a firefox profile, and share between devices? I’m fairly invested in firefox, and would hate loosing functionality

They dont have to renege on anything. Just create a new variant, an let the original stsgnate. 5 years is an eternity in tech, so if an app is not updated in 5 years, it will be pretty useless.

Elmer

I started out in a big iron shop in the 90s. I was in charge of backups. We had an outage after a power loss, and the generator not kicking in. Our local backup set didn’t restore. The basement set, in a fire/waterproof safe didn’t restore. The off-site set restored.

The hours between the first fail and success were pure terror.

“most move on”?

Source? because I believe it’s quite the opposite.