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I think #1 and #5 are very telling for me. #2 fits in with #1. If I am good with those there is something of significance going on!
Be as filthy as you want. Just use words and grammar to properly explain your thoughts please.
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Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
Transformation
I could make this work for me!
"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts
Good luck cyborg buddy, I wish you the best.
Also, previous tag:
fun fact this is a big issue that museums/archives/preservation professionals run into
This is something I bring up a lot. Digital preservation is not a thing to rely on. Anything digital is inherently ephemeral, fleeting.
All current and former digital storage will eventually fail. Paper tapes and punch cards cards wear and rot. Magnetic tape and disks grow mold and shed their magnetic coating. Hard drives seize and crash, their controllers fail. Optical media scratches, rots, or simply fades. Solid state media loses its charge over time. Cloud services shut down with no warning.
Long-term digital storage is a never-ending process of copying to new media.
And then there's the problem of format.
It took less than 30 years for digital works by Andy Worhol — one of the most popular artists of the 20th century — to be lost to obsolete technology.
A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.
We had the disks, we had the computers, we had modern emulators for the computers. But reading the images (PDF Archive) required very specific combinations of operating system and software versions, and in some cases required reverse-engineering image formats for which the correct combination of software could not be found.
This wasn't some obscure machine. Millions of Amiga computers were sold, and Amiga users are among the most dedicated to keeping the platform going long after its discontinuation.
And still the image format had to be reverse-engineered to recover Worhol's images.
How much of our culture from the past 30 years has been entirely digital?
To be fair, this isn't exactly a new problem, or even one unique to the digital era. But I do wonder what will remain for future generations looking back. How much of human history has been pieced together from shards of pottery and clay tablets? With our communications, our documents, our art all moving to digital media, what will be left of us to dig up? What will it tell of our story, of who we are, what we believed, what challenges we overcame?
Certainly a problem now. One that will continue to get worse. Manufacturers keep shortening the life span of everything. Three different forms of back up will get you 5 years before you need to replace one of them and check the others. If you don't use a 5-7 year cycle you are just asking for problems. This is for things that are not replaceable or of high value.
Good precedent for socialist police states like New York and Massachusetts.
...and good old California!
NY CA and MA will spend plenty of taxpayers money fighting this. Then just continue to ignore Supreme Court rulings like they currently do.
And, in my defense, I was unsupervised.
"Yeah you're a filthy little charger aren't you?"
Agreed