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Do some research into long term storage media. (Probably Terrabyte size USB drives) Read reviews and specs to see if anybody mentions how many read/writes the things can go through before failures start and if they've got anything that slows bit loss. I've got a cheap 1TB thumb drive for like 20 bucks that I just use for moving large files around between ancient computers and occassionally trying to figure out how to get a Linux OS to work on something old I have in the house. So, you know, 20 ~30 bucks US a month and you will have 12TB of long term storage that can fit into a small jewelry box with space to spare. Just don't forget which sticks have what stuff so that you can find it when you need it.

Other than that, you should be able to find some services that just run servers that do nothing but store stuff in "the cloud" in encrypted drives that you can access in various ways. If you've got the extra cash, its probably way more affordable than you think it is.

My self justifications are thusly...

I typically don't try to "keep up with the latest or greatest" of things. So I feel zero guilt at finding ROMs of all the video games from my childhood and emulators. Neither do I feel bad about hunting down old PC games that are abandonware instead of trying to find some Steam version (which will stop working soon with my ancient computer anyways soon so... pppfffttttt).

Most of the books (comic, fiction, nonfiction) are of old stuff that has been out for years so whomever was going to make money off the sales has already made their money. The only people who are being denied any potential income are the resellers.

Most streaming services, whether I pay for them or not, run adds that had about a 90% chance of freezing my old entertainment computer to the point of requiring a restart. This dropped to practically zero after moving from windows to linux. Also, most of my devices are so old that the services I had been paying for wouldn't work on them anyways... so... :shrug: ... fuckem.

I've never felt that something "wasn't worth it" because I got it for free as far as media. Usually when I go on a download spree of video games its because I've gone a bit manic and decided that I want to try to play every Final Fantasy game up to FF9 or all the MegaMan games or something and I'll just burn myself out after playing the crap out of them.

I have, however, purchased books because I kept reading/hearing them referenced as being worthwhile or interesting and found myself thinking... "wow... that's 25 bucks and a week's worth of reading I can't get back." I also, have had a bad habit in the past of just purchasing books because they looked halfway interesting on impulse, tossing them into one of several trunks full of books, and they'll sit there for 10 years before I even realize that I had the book.

Another thing that I have considered after years of thinking about it. These items were never going to be purchased by me, so me reading a scanned copy of a comic book from 20 years ago or me not reading it effectively results in the same amount of money leaving my pockets to go... somewhere. I say "somewhere" because I'm not paying the comic book writer/artists/inkers or the actual development teams of video games, I would be paying some other intermediary who pays their intermediary who pays their intermediary who might be required to pay some sliver of their revenue to the people who actually made the thing I'm playing/reading.

It also doesn't hurt that I'm middle aged and barely make enough money to make ends meet on a good month even though I live a pretty frugal life. I've come to accept that its not worth beating myself up too much about.

:archer: AND THIS IS HOW WE GET ANTS!

I was a part of the chapo exodus and found myself just going to the hexbear instead of the reddit to the point that I just pop into reddit like once or twice a year.

...I assume I still am.

I occasionally drink from that slop slop bucket, its... sometimes its okay. Right now with all the electoralism talk ... its just silly and exhausting.

I'm already seeing these displays up already.

me playing ExciteBike on the NES, 1989 - colorized

other motorists on the road "Oh sh**! There must be a really big gas leak!"

We should... but at the same time... all the fancy guidance shit will be stripped out and who knows if the Ukranians will have the support infrastructure to keep the things functional before use.

"Can't keep those types of things fueled without maintenance for too long or the gosh darned oxidizing agent starts eating through all the gosh darned rocket parts!"

The Onion

"Grinder loses nearly half its staff... Changes name to Grdr"

It wouldn't surprise me one bit, if it turned out that the most common gender ID is actually non-binary.

Like, my spouse and I pretty much consider ourselves "cis" but ... but not for any particular reason other than, "well, its good enough to get the point across." We don't really "feel" any particularly strong emotions about it.

:Bill-Oreilly-shining:

"Highlander" rules.

There can be ONLY one!

To piggy back on your "bizarre fact", the same type of iron can be found added to cereal.

I remember several times in school we'd do a science demonstration where we'd smash up Cheerio (or a knock off) brand ceral, mix the powder with water and slowly drag a magnet through the slurry. Every time the magnet would be pulled out of the mix, there'd be more and more tiny iron bits.

I fell away from watching Star Trek many MANY years ago, and am overwhelmed by all the Star Treks to the point that after watching the series with Scott Baccula I checked out.

The Orville, having way less ... history... was much easier for me to get in to. Also, I was expecting it to be hot garbage and wound up really REALLY liking it.

Everybody deserves a papa Bortus.

Not saying these people are going to be millionaires... But they'll be able to make the rounds on right wing radio, local church speech circuits, all the neo fash militia groups that are around and be probably be able to have a nice safety net that most of the rest of us won't have when we need it.