ErynKnight

Photographer here, professional. SDs fail while in use. They're not 100% reliable for their intended purpose, let alone unintended.

I've known loads of photographers that use SD cards as "backups". And it has a super high failure rate.

Same.

This makes me uneasy. I have colleagues like this. They have 40 open tabs, and none of their desktop icons are even in a grid... With stuff literally overlapping.

I call these desktops a "Layer 8 collage".

She's my hero.

So it's kinda like you feel like data preservation is your calling, so to speak. That's quite admirable.

I can think of several instances where archivists saved the day. Most notably when the BBC lost loads of episodes of Doctor Who, and thankfully, some fans had them recorded on VHS and were able to send them in.

Matched by whom?

What prompts you to archive this stuff? I'm a YouTuber and while I do have my own archives, I don't want to archive it for me, I want that data to be available for years, decades, perhaps centuries to come.

Like what if YT goes for some reason. What's essentially my current, most important job is all there. If it goes, the last 5 years of my life are effectively deleted.

That moment when you realise they said "TV" and you're thinking in GB. You became old today.

They do when you can't watch the Blu-ray you just bought because it requires online validation each playback and your player isn't internet connected.

Or when Uplay interferes with your games and even installs malware that damages machines.

Or perhaps it's not being able to access software because it's now a subscription racket and they've conned you into thinking it's a service, but it's just DRM, but oh no, their account severs have been down all week and you're gonna miss the deadline.

All of these examples harm lawful consumers, piracy us, and always will be unaffected.

Import them. They're just proving that region coding is anti-consumer ;)

Like when Amazon converted their entire catalogue to HEVC... From their AVC catalogue. It looked atrocious. they even capped bandwidth. Any snow, or trees, or even asphalt and it became a blocky mess.

DRM only harms legitimate consumers. Pirates take it out.