Nils

@Nils@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the threat model and how long do you need the data.

  Worked on a place long ago, that anything they needed to save offline from more than a few decades where stored in microfilm, the expectancy there where they would last 80 to 100 years.

  Anything else was pretty much tape.

  You also take in account the technology avaiability. The more complex is to use, harder will it be to reproduce in the future. Even with tapes, you might want to copy the data to another tape/recorder every decade or two, to keep it on par with the technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Early Access wasn't enough for Alterium Shift so it's now on Kickstarter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it is a scam, like people are claiming (on the post, and steam reviews). I feel like it is more like a lack of experience and knowledge in the game business than any intentional wrongdoing.

  There are definitely problems with the game, and the pace of updates and fixes has been lacking since it first appeared on Steam.

  After watching the dev Stream in 2023, it seems like he loves what he is doing and probably will see this through, but he really struggles with basic concepts of game making - that might have changed since then.

  During a programming session, he was asking everything to an AI chatbot and copying the result into the code, then suffering for a while back and fort with the bot because the code did not work as he intended, while the chat was sending the documentation page of the engine and other help that would have solved his issues.