My keyboard uses PS/2 and although I do have a PS/2 to USB adapter, i prefer using my computers PS/2 port because it means one more USB port can be used for something else.
You're not wrong. Red states and their supporters have and continue to fuck themselves and then blame the feds because they have no idea how to distinguish state and federal politics.
Building a NAS is a large upfront cost but it’s worth it IMO.
Too much of a hassle. With discs, they can be transported far easier than a NAS + drives and they can be compartmentalized and distributed to other people easier than with a NAS.
I’m not sure I’d trust a dye based optical media, but there are apparently some archive quality 100 year BD-R.
I wouldn't trust dye-based optical media either. The BD-R discs I use incorporate an inorganic writable layer that's rated for 100+ year storage under ideal conditions. BD-R discs are WORM (write once, read many times) so they cannot be re-written-- another massive benefit for archival purposes.
The author of this article did a very poor job at researching the subject matter. There's zero mention of things like the difference between HTL vs LTH, or things like Verbatim's MABL layers. There's a good reason why one form of preferred media storage archivists use is BD-R. Let's take the 100+ year ratings with a grain of salt, and assume say... 50 years. The average hard drive can be relied on for about 10 years. You can see where I'm going with this, which is why I'm far more comfortable using BD-R discs with HTL/MABL for long term data storage instead of hard drives which would have to be replaced every 10 years or so.
BD-R discs are expected to last between 5 and 20 years, depending on the material they are made out of. BD-RE, which is erasable Blu-ray, is estimated for 20 to 50 years while DVD-R and CD-R, which hold a lot less data, can last 50 to 100 years.
I've seen that Canadian govt link passed around on other forums and I'd remind people of how painfully outdated that info is. Again, no mention of HTL, which is the big factor that significantly improves longevity and reliability. What I've always found really bizarre is that they single academic paper that the Canadian govt page relies on in terms of BD-R's lifespan (Iraci 2018) is hardly adequate. If you read Iraci 2018, you'll see how it... really isn't based on good data or testing practices at all. I think the problem is people see a scientific citation and (understandably) assume the info is legit, but in this case scratching the surface reveals an incredibly bad research paper written by an author who appears to have very little past/future experience in that field.
Testing involved the exposure of samples to conditions of 80 °C and 85 % relative humidity for intervals up to 84 days
^ That's from Iraci 2018. Testing the reliability of a product should involve realistic conditions. I'd ask anyone who supports Iraci's paper to answer this-- in what kind of remotely plausible situation would you find yourself in where conditions are 80 °C with 85% RH? Further, do you trust a paper that purports these conditions to be suitable when testing the longevity of optical media? To me, this is like testing various panes of glass by throwing them off a high rise building. Iraci's paper is ridiculous, IMO-- and there's a good reason why it's been cited like 2 times in the last 6 years.
Hard to take you seriously when you seemingly aren't aware of judge-alone trials. I don't think you have a clue what you're taking about. Also, judges in jury trials still play a huge influence on the jury's decisionmaking. It's common for POC in redneck areas to opt for judge alone trials instead of dealing with a jury of folks who are far from their peers.
Pleas bargains in theory work as you described. In reality, they're pushed by prosecutors with the "we know you can't afford a trial and/or are too scared to face a harsh sentence" addendum.
There's plenty of good open source software that is user friendly, like VLC. The problem is other open source software that isn't user-friendly and takes this whole "it's the user's fault" approach. Folks like you just jerk each other off about how smart open source users are and how dumb proprietary software users are and it's just so cringy.
Next step in the play is to get a jury trial filled with folks willing to lie about not hearing about this plea bargain, so they can quietly convict and claim no bias.
Plea bargains are coercive and only benefit the guilty while screwing over the innocent. Though trial judges aren't in theory supposed to be aware of a defendant rejecting a plea bargain, prosecutors often tell judges that the defendant rejected a plea bargain and it makes the defendant look ungrateful/unremorseful during trial.
So the next time you hear of a dubious case where folks are saying "but they PLED GUILTY" as irrefutable evidence of guilt, keep in mind this person may very well have accepted a plea bargain to avoid a heavy handed judge feeling scorned by a rejection of a plea bargain by a lowly defendant who in the judge's mind is almost certainly guilty.
And the next time you see someone found guilty by a judge, bear in mind there a good chance that person rejected a plea bargain and part of the judge's finding of guilt has more to do with feeling outraged that a plea bargain was rejected than anything rooted in truth.
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What a joke. Wherever the product was sold is what this should cover. Just another example of a broken ass system trying to push itself as legitimate and for the people.
I find I just end up watching too much media if it's too accessible like that. With discs + computer + projector, it's easier for me to have dedicated media time without it bleeding into other things I should be doing.
I download to my HDD and anything truly worth of keeping gets burned to a BD-R disc for long term cold storage. HDD is more likely to fail in 10+ years than a BD-R.
And how many peoples' friends and family are on Signal vs WhatsApp? The whole point of these apps is socializing with people you know, so can you not see how useless of a suggestion it is to recommend Signal? And please don't get into the "just convince everyone to use Signal' argument because it's completely unrealistic.
Signal did itself no favors when it made the bone-headed move of removing SMS support in a delusional attempt at pushing users away from SMS and towards Signal's encrypted chat. All it did was result in a bunch of people uninstalling the app because it became annoying to use it just for Signal instead of Signal and SMS, which at least gave rise to a SMS user's eventual shift away from SMS. But we don't talk about that because open source is always good 😇
It's like saying modern clubs suck, so I'm going to invest my own club that the vast majority of people won't attend and those that do are almost all white dudes with the same generic "I'm not like other users" personality.
Law enforcement pretty much always sides with Trump supporters on this stuff so I wouldn't hold your breath. If this woman died, most cops would probably laugh.
My keyboard uses PS/2 and although I do have a PS/2 to USB adapter, i prefer using my computers PS/2 port because it means one more USB port can be used for something else.
30+ years old and it runs flawlessly.