In military jets that can fly vertically, it’s because the engineers prioritize performance and capability over efficiency. Passenger planes prioritize efficiency over acrobatic ability.

Not the NSA.

https://www.torproject.org/about/history/

Who knows, with inflation the way it is, maybe it’ll be $200M for a Big Mac by the time he retires. ;)

Dude doesn’t sound like the kind of guy who has $200 million. Or could ever earn it in a lifetime.

The cool kids have left the building and moved on to building the next thing.

Monterey still gets security updates. :)

Really? I just handed down a 2017 MacBook Pro – still supported by Apple, meaning it runs the latest OS, and gets patches.

Can you give me an example of any other device with longer software support from the original vendor, at no cost to the end user?

Every media is subject to failure. It’s the process that protects.

If you’re keeping something for your family, consider putting it online on a sharable cloud storage system, or using software that distributes the data to everyone’s computer (BitTorrent / Resilio Sync / DropBox, etc.)

If you want something physical, I’d get a ‘tough’ or ‘high endurance’ USB stick or SD card, and keep updating it quarterly. Flash doesn’t have a great reputation for longevity/durability, so I’d wipe the USB stick clean with zeros then re-write everything with each update.

I normally don’t get into storage at that level – most of the storage solutions I use are enterprise-grade disk from Hitachi/Dell/EMC/IBM, etc. I’ve looked at Gluster, but never really tried implementing it. Ceph seems powerful, but more complicated than I’m willing to get into for my personal projects.

Once you cross a couple terabytes, I start moving everything to tape or (more recently) cloud storage where the day-to-day management is someone else’s problem.

Uh, in what world does this guy think he doesn’t owe you for the parts you gave him?

Honestly, I’m “storage agnostic” – in my office I have Hard drives, SSDs, NAS, servers with various types of RAID, Linux boxes with disks in LVM, magneto optical platters, and various tapes.

It’s less about the media and more about the process. As I described elsewhere, I have a large NAS, an onsite copy, and an offsite copy on tapes. It’s the process of keeping offsite copies, regularly updating them, and verifying the copies that protects me, not some sticker on a box that says “100 YEAR STORAGE LIFE” from a company that might not exist next month.

The irony being, just last week, the city I live in just had its first Tornado warning in nearly 50 years.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/841435

But they were restoring all my posts and comments for weeks after I deleted them.

This is what Superchargers are. The snag is that during busy weekends, the batteries eventually hit zero, and everyone is capped at 72kW, because that’s what the AC/DC transformer can provide.

Hydrogen Peroxide can discolour white fabrics if left too long. Apply it, let it fizz for a minute, then use an old toothbrush to scrub both sides of the fabric for a minute or so, then wash in cold water immediately.

Hammer?

But seriously, cement is made with limestone, and cleaning vinegar (10% acetic acid) dissolves hard water in kettles super easily… I’m not a chemistry guy, but I’d give that a try.

Just to delete the comments that reddit restored after I deleted everything in my account.

I work in IT. Most systems have laughable security. Passwords are often saved in plain text in scripts or config files. I went to a site to help out a very large provincial governmental organization move some data out of one system and into another. They sat me down with a loaner laptop and the guy logged me into his user account on the server. When I asked for escalated privileges, he told me he’d go get someone who knew the service account passwords.

After a few minutes, I started poking around on my own… And had administrative access within an hour. I could read the database (raw data), access documents, start and stop the software, plus, figured out how to get into the upstream system that fed data to this server… I was working on figuring out the software’s admin password when the guy came back. I’m sure that given some more time, I could have rooted the box because the OS hadn’t been updated in years.

I find it hard to believe that the folks in France who work in government have forgotten that protesting is the compromise people made to have their voices heard… The alternative being the separation of heads from necks as the first step in the revolution.