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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: digital ownership — true ownership when you have the actual files — is amazing. It’s the media panacea we’ve wanted for years. Storage is cheap, content is boundless, and if you curate your own collection you can usually get it anywhere you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It isn't vulnerable to physical degradation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'm at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.

I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it'll take centuries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Too bad it's not applicable to defective-by-design appliances like the PlayStation 5.