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AND THAT'S NUMBERWANG! Time to spin the tapestry!

It's an older meme classification, sir, but it checks out

I use https://sx.catgirl.cloud/ so I'm already primed to have anime catgirls protecting my webs.

You′re walking in the woods

There's no one around and your phone is dead

Out of the corner of your eye, you spot them

(Written in Rust)

They're following you, about 30 feet back

They get down on all fours and break into a sprint

They're gaining on you

"Written in Rust!"

You're looking for your car but you′re all turned around

They're almost upon you now

And you can see there's blood on their face

My God, there′s blood everywhere!

Running for your life (from writing in Rust!)

They're compiling a knife (it′s written in Rust!)

Perhaps the ICP should appeal more to the everyday layperson.....a gender neutral term coined in 1972, just seventeen years before the unrelated 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.

oh, to have a familiar that shares your fashion sense

https://falseknees.tumblr.com/

Welcome to the Fediverse! Thanks for the post, I love your authorial tone!

Alligators steal hats all the time?

No, they don't, I pulled it out of my butt. I rewrote my original draft and that slipped in. NVME wouldn't make sense unless you were powering them up every few months for updates.

If you buy your LTO drive new, then yes they rip you a new one, for sure! Buy it used...but it still will cost you a few hundred. Like I said, if money is not a concern. If losing the encryption key is a concern, then USB is still your best bet. Make two, keep them simple and unencrypted, stick em in two different safes, update them regularly. And print the documentation with pictures!

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

Documentation, documentation, documentation. No matter what system you have, make sure your loved ones have a detailed, image-heavy, easy to follow guide on how restorations work - at the file level, at the VM level, at whatever level you are using.

That being said, DVDs actually have quite a short shelf life, all things considered. I'd be more inclined to use a pair of archival strength USB NVME drive, updated and tested routinely(quarterly, yearly, whatever makes sense). Or even an LTO tape, if you want to purchase the drive and some tapes.

You can put your backups in something like VeraCrypt. Set an insanely long password, encoded in a QR code, printed on paper. Store it in the same secured location you store your USB drives (or elsewhere, if you have a security posture).

You may also consider, if money is not a concern, a cloud VPS or other online file storage, similarly encrypted. This can provide an easy URL to access for the less tech-savvy, along with secured credentials for recovery efforts. Depending on what your successors might need to access, this could be a very straightforward way to log into a website and download what they need in an emergency.