Counterpoint: digital ownership — true ownership when you have the actual files — is amazing. It’s the media panacea we’ve wanted for years. Storage is cheap, content is boundless, and if you curate your own collection you can usually get it anywhere you want.
Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.
Counterpoint: digital ownership — true ownership when you have the actual files — is amazing. It’s the media panacea we’ve wanted for years. Storage is cheap, content is boundless, and if you curate your own collection you can usually get it anywhere you want.
It isn’t vulnerable to physical degradation.
Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.
Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.
Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.
I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”
Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.
Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.
Too bad it’s not applicable to defective-by-design appliances like the PlayStation 5.