Gregory's Serverdownload everything. that service is going to die. be your own librarian.
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@hazelnot its effort no doubt. cost not bad. long run worth it IMHO. i still use old fashioned cheap drives that are slower but *shrug*. have a good backup routine. have i had drives fail in the past? yup.  @danbrotherston @hugoestr @hazelnot @brood Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform seem to be the most reliable media if long term survival is anything to go by. @runoutgroover @danbrotherston @hugoestr @hazelnot @brood Word is you should also avoid dealers of cheap copper @runoutgroover @danbrotherston @hugoestr @hazelnot @brood don't say it too loud or some tech bro will employ poor people at 0.5$ per day to encode your data in clay for improved resilience @danbrotherston @ehproque @hazelnot @brood @runoutgroover Now I want to learn how to work with clay tablets @hugoestr @danbrotherston @hazelnot @brood @runoutgroover just don't let the bros know or they'll ruin it for you  @brood cost is pretty bad though if your broke, HDDs aren't super expensive but they're not cheap either @brood to add to what I said earlier and counteract the negativity, instead of everyone being their own librarian what would be much nicer to see would be small community-shared libraries of media, from a few friends to, idk, whoever, potentially a whole neighborhood if it scales well enough @hazelnot i like that idea, like a co-op. i think of the history of UbuWeb. "rogue libraries". @Longplay_Games @brood doesn't have to be completely offline, but definitely underground (until capitalism collapses) @c3manu @Longplay_Games @brood I knew of most of those, but those only cover books 😛 I have the privilege of the means to host a jellyfin server full of movies/music/books for my friends. I think every friend group needs someone like that.  @brood @hazelnot HDDs are mostly fine anyway.  @Bigblue1106 @brood @hazelnot How do you handle the HDDs? An external reader? I've been thinking of using some for archival, but not sure it having them online 24/7 is a good idea. @ehproque @brood I had to do some digging to find out how much that is, and... $140 is a lot of money lol I guess they're HDDs, cause I saved up a bunch of money to buy a 2TB SSD this year and the one I was looking at originally was like 200€ 💀 Though it turns out my motherboard is too old to properly work with it so I'm gonna go for a slower one at about half the price @ehproque @hazelnot @brood it's a bit trickier with video. Im about to fill a 14TB drive. And Im very anxious about it because I don't have it backed up.  Currently maintaining ~10TB of stuff ... music, videos, books, offline Wikipedias, etc. Two copies of everything. It's a drop in the bucket. I want an offline backup of #SciHub. Willing to learn how to mirror it in exchange. Open to suggestions. Not joking. #AlexandraElbakyan , are you on the 'Verse? @ErictheCerise about the same. been doing it a long time. very worth it. have recently been swapping out some of my OCIS owncloud repos w https://syncthing.net/  @CaribenxMarciaX @brood @clot27 Read here for the most part: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@joeo10/112300709674248685   @brood@zirk.us would be awesome if public libraries could do stuff like that, they could keep media on those huge magnetic tapes that businesses use for backups and it would be less prohibitively expensive because of the economy of scale I mean if you compare it to good old physical book times it is unbelievable cheap. You can get an SD card / USB stick for 15 dollar and have thousands of books on it. @TheSecondVariation @brennx0r i have old books on paper which do not exist digitally. i appreciate and use a reader for epubs etc., but _nothing_ replaces a real actual library. at least, i hope nothing ever will. for me that is keystone of a dystopia. Oh sure nothing against libraries. I would love there to be many many more public spaces. @brennx0r @TheSecondVariation @brood Most countries don't have them, in which case a $15 stick is hell of a great investment. @freezeanopensore @TheSecondVariation @brood Most countries? Interesting. Can you name some of these countries? Generally speaking, we should try to introduce libraries to the nations that lack them.  @brood I setup a Calibre-web just the other day (already used Calibre on desktop tho but now I can use my phone and laptop to read on-the-go too). Music I pretty much always had stored on own servers and same for pictures. If you dun have a local copy of it, it can be taken away at any moment.   @brood I neglected to save the image I found on GIS many years back that I used as the reference for a coat that a character of mine wears and now I have no idea how accurately i remember it. D:  @brood things I wish someone had told my younger self Luckily I think there's only two things that I desperately miss not having a copy of @brood No doubt about it. I recently discovered "Readeck", what a fantastic piece of gold to store articles :). (self-hosted opensource) |
@brood unfortunately storage space costs money and is kind of a continuous investment cause of bit rot and SSD write limits