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stonecoldcoldstone t1_jdnprde wrote
Reply to LPT: Check all your stored hard drives and CDs/DVDs at least once a year. And never have only one type of backup. You could wind up losing everything. by bigdicksnfriedchickn
and don't forget raid==backup
[deleted] OP t1_jdnnyxv wrote
Emotional_Ad_273 t1_jdnnx1e wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
Marlboro sent me more birthday gifts if the last 10 years than anyone else I know.
solderfog t1_jdnlauh wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
I just always put my birthday as a few days off. Just because they ask for some info doesn't mean you have to be accurate!
KuhLealKhaos t1_jdnl35z wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
Why would I want to make myself sadder
AlGeee t1_jdnkohe wrote
Reply to comment by Peterthinking in LPT: Check all your stored hard drives and CDs/DVDs at least once a year. And never have only one type of backup. You could wind up losing everything. by bigdicksnfriedchickn
Archaeologists and historians will be interested
[deleted] OP t1_jdnkevk wrote
johntwoods t1_jdnkakr wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
I left social media (Facebook, etc.) in 2019.
My wife tells me happy birthday, and my Mom and brother text me. Oh and I get a bday email from a Dave Matthews Band fan site I signed up for back in like 1998.
WastedWasted12 t1_jdnk2fj wrote
On android if you adjust your private dns to dns.AdGuard.com that will also block your ads. Doesn’t work as well on apple devices.
[deleted] OP t1_jdnihj3 wrote
jonandgrey t1_jdni7ft wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
Ummm. Whiff.
[deleted] OP t1_jdnhyb2 wrote
Reply to comment by jonandgrey in LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
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jonandgrey t1_jdnhtdp wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
LPT: be kind of a passive secretive a**hole to your friends to see who really wants to get through that stuff and really be your friend.
keepthetips t1_jdnhflb wrote
Reply to LPT: Hide your birth date in social media accounts to find out who really wants to wish you on your birthday by [deleted]
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LateChapter7 t1_jdnfxrm wrote
Samsung browser can also have the Adguard extension
[deleted] t1_jdnermv wrote
Reply to comment by IrenaMi in LPT Firefox can run ad block on your phone! by SlenderClaus
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IrenaMi t1_jdndvcs wrote
I also recommend Brave, no need for extensions, there are no ads.
keepthetips t1_jdncik5 wrote
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Peterthinking t1_jdnbmbm wrote
Reply to LPT: Check all your stored hard drives and CDs/DVDs at least once a year. And never have only one type of backup. You could wind up losing everything. by bigdicksnfriedchickn
All my data dies with me. In a hundred years it won't matter to anyone anyway.
Startrail_wanderer OP t1_jdnbc1k wrote
Reply to comment by BlastShell in LPT: Is it a prudent decision to have a lawyer on retainer in Canada by Startrail_wanderer
Nah just erring on the side of caution with how callous the cops can be and turn you into a conviction. Case in point one of the videos where cops were trying to arrest teens based on jaywalking
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Reply to comment by bolonomadic in LPT: Is it a prudent decision to have a lawyer on retainer in Canada by Startrail_wanderer
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Startrail_wanderer OP t1_jdnb1wq wrote
Reply to comment by Amazing_Library_5045 in LPT: Is it a prudent decision to have a lawyer on retainer in Canada by Startrail_wanderer
North American law services are costly and because I have a friend who's a Canadian resident
ChrisGeritol t1_jdnatsb wrote
Reply to LPT: Check all your stored hard drives and CDs/DVDs at least once a year. And never have only one type of backup. You could wind up losing everything. by bigdicksnfriedchickn
What OP is discussing (among other things) is called "bit rot" (among other terms). Just powering them up periodically for magnetic media isn't the complete solution. You need to read and re-write the data. In the old days, there was a product called Spinrite that basically would read and re-write data and would try to recover missing data by re-reading the media many times.
For SSDs, they need power periodically to maintain the electrical charge.
Cds, DVDs, and blu-ray don't have either of the magnetic or electrical issues, but still can physically decay over many, many years.
The backup mantra is "two is one, one is none" when it comes to copies of data. Of course the same people who preach it don't necessarily follow that themselves.
Loko8765 t1_jdnqy7u wrote
Reply to comment by stonecoldcoldstone in LPT: Check all your stored hard drives and CDs/DVDs at least once a year. And never have only one type of backup. You could wind up losing everything. by bigdicksnfriedchickn
You mean raid ≠ backup