Okay if you use a password manager, don't you still have to remember your phone lockscreen and also computer passwords? How do you make this password thing as simple as possible?

1 day ago

Okay if you use a password manager, don't you still have to remember your phone lockscreen and also computer passwords? How do you make this password thing as simple as possible?

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 17 hours ago

I feel very similar. Trying to get all old console games before they all get taken town , Minerva’s archive is already gone. I’m sure v1m is next.

I wish i know more how to get into data hoarder groups to share data. But how to make them trust you? That parts hard. I guarantee there’s lemmings out there with 50 tb nas full of every game known to humans.

They want to take it all away from us to charge us a subscription to play 30 year old games and enjoy any media. And when they kill search and websites, the only "internet " that will be available will be an llm chatbot search, at $50 a month for 100 prompts of course. 10 additional dollars per prompt.

And since llms killed any entry and junior coders, there will be no one left learning coding or anything to bypass this. As the old knowledgeable ones die off, the youngs will have outsourced all thinking to the gibbity. And you will own nothing.

I see zero way the future doesn’t become this reality. What a shitty future !

njordomir@lemmy.world · 15 hours ago

I need to sit down and have a serious thought about redundancy and what I want to keep long term. I want to leave little portable drives with an encrypted backup of my family photos with all my relatives so I can restore them in the case of a catastrophic failure that includes all local backups (like a huge fire, an earthquake, war, famine, see etc.). Essentially like sending duplicate or triplicate physical photos to relatives in the old days so they can send a copy back if needed. This is addition to a normal backup. Essentially in case the US falls apart.

Like you, I’ve also been collecting other media of interest to me. I would have plenty of space for Atari games, but I can’t imagine spending the drive space to archive every game in my Steam and GoG libraries or every GameCube game. If you have a generous 60 TB of space, that becomes 30TB really quick with redundancy. With a single offsite backup, that becomes 20TB and with 2 backups and redundancy that’s only 15TB or usable space. Granted I’m not factoring in compression, but at today’s prices buying 3 extra gigs for every usable gig practically requires a mortgage. If we could have $14-15/TB again I would probably buy another 2-6 drives right off the bat just to complete my build and be somewhat future proofed.

I’m also concerned about things that need updated. I need working images and copies of my systems and programs that I can restore to if the internet goes down or gets locked away.