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Reminder that the reason that GOG is DRM-free and offers offline installers is because it was started by former pirates (in a sense).
If there is a game you love, buy it from GOG and archive the offline installer. If it isn't available on GOG, pirate it. The number of games that have disappeared is too damn high.
I need to get a couple more external drives and make at least one Faraday cage to keep one in.
All my installers are on a 1tb hdd that sits in my dresser. Made it a lot easier to put my games on my new laptop since they were installed before I even got to hooking it up to the internet.
Beware of bit rot, hard drives are meant to be powered occasionally to hold data. Using a recycled computer as a NAS is a great low cost solution.
I know SSDs need to be powered on occasionally due to how they store data, which is why (also due to cost lol) I have most of my stuff on HDDs, though I know those can have issues if you leave them out unprotected.
Not much more I can do without spending a lot more money than I have already. But so far I've never needed to get my second backup.
Which reminds me I need to re-backup the second drive...