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Comment Re:Who buys CDs these days? (Score 1) 64

> Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.

Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is going. I do recommend doing two things: creating a media server of some sort, and keeping it in a back-up schedule.

(Disk media isn't immune from problems either, I'm finding a large number of DVDs I have suffer disk rot, probably because WB cheaped out in the mid-2000s)

Back-ups aren't hard these days. Use older, disused, hard drives of the kind you probably have a pile of anyway because you're a Slashdotter, and a device like this:

https://www.newegg.com/istarus...

This is something that means you can treat SATA drives the same way you did floppies back when we used REAL computers.

Second advantage of this is that you can save everything, including the time you'd otherwise need to re-rip your entire media collection if it fails. I've learned the hard way that's not as easy as it sounds.

Comment Re:First... (Score 1) 32

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it.

Interesting you should say that. I just heard this morning that as more immigrants get sent out of the country we may experience a net loss to the population for the first time in decades. In addtion, because of all these people no longer in the country, GDP will decrease because they aren't buying goods and services nor helping to produce goods and services.

We know this is already affecting industries such as housing where one MAGA voter whined it will take him years to replace the immigrants taken from him. Of course, in Florida, they're already aware of what happens when you go after immigrants. Food rots in the field and businesses can't fully operate.

Perhaps these extended droughts will accelerate these issues.

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