My understanding was that flash memory, especially modern flash memory with tiny gates and multiple bits per cell, degrades the fastest of all storage media (possibly apart from badly made plastic discs). Especially if it isn’t regularly powered up, the memory cells will just use their charge after a while. If you used three it would reduce the risk, but if they’re all degrading untouched at the same speed they might still all lose data around the same time.

They’re pretty expensive.

Especially if they fuck over the working class.

Michael Jarman, pictured between two people…

That’s a funny photo caption.

Donald Trump breaking a promise? Whatever will happen next?

The NYT’s true colors are showing more obviously every day.

harms hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent people

Billions. He’s intent on ramping up the use of fossil fuels, dismantling climate science and outlawing protections against pandemics.

Corporate encouragement.

If people understood the very first thing about economics it would be glaringly obvious that his proposed tariffs would drastically raise grocery prices, and the prices of many other things. Unfortunately, people don’t understand, and the media carefully avoids explaining it to them.

The lifetimes have improved, but according to your link, the currently measured average age of a drive at failure is 2 years, 10 months. They expect that to increase as they roll over to newer, more reliable drives. These drives are under heavy use, unlike drives used for offline storage, but still it’s not really the kind of lifespan you’d ideally want in an archival medium.

That’s the reaction Netanyahu wants people to have. It allows him to deflect all criticism of his government as mere prejudice, and to guilt people into silencing their criticisms. Don’t play into his hands.

That’s technically promising, but I can’t see it being a mass-market item since most people don’t care about backups, so it will likely be prohibitively expensive for most home users.

Seems like the world has decided to re-learn the lessons about fascism the hard way.

I guess home users will be without any viable long-term backup media soon. The only ones I can think of are those special blu-ray discs that promise to last for archival. After that we have spinning disks, but those only last a few years and will eventually be phased out, and then all we’ll have is flash memory that degrades rapidly. Oh, and paying through the nose for someone’s cloud service so they can hold our data to ransom while mining it for AI, and delete it as soon as we miss a bill payment.

I would assume Trump is intent on destroying NATO in any case.

RFK will try to make this worse, just as bird flu threatens.

Damn, now I’m oddly hungry to eat a baby.

“But I’m one of the good ones. They clearly don’t mean me.”

Person who publicly insulted Greeks now has to live in Greece among Greeks and spend her life talking to Greeks. Maybe there’s some satisfaction to be had from that.

It should be rebranded the American Delusion.