Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.

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• Buck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.

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