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This is bad. Google is completely getting rid of unlimited storage for education and making the baseline 100TB per institution.
I have over 120TB on my university account....
I need to work on moving that to some place I own. Or just say goodbye to it, because it's just ROMs.

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So the cheapest storage server on czech-server has 14 drive spaces which makes it not enough for even RAID 5, so that means you need two which also means a 10GB NIC. That's 100k CZK for 1, using the cheapest 10TB drives they have. So that's 200k CZK. :NotLikeThis:
Well, RIP Alvro's ROM collection.

czech-server.cz/hp-proliant-dl

@1iceloops123 So, that's like 6k USD worth of just drives without redundancy.

@matrix just another reminder that you don't really have any control over anything you don't actually own. #FuckGoogle

@matrix @cereal
Our uni is unable to gib us even enough cloud storage to fit the materials for that semester.... :pepeFacepalm:

@LukeAlmighty @matrix nobody at my uni ever used their services. Most people already have mail and file sharing before they go there and no reason to change it all for a few years of no additional benefit. Uni's IT was super proud they delivered what was mostly irrelevant or a burden to students, completely detached from their reality.

@LukeAlmighty @cereal How? I though basically every uni has Google For Education and Cesnet offers Owncloud to universities.

@matrix @cereal
Because our uni is... special......

it is special in so many ways :alexjonessmile: . If we meet in person some day, you will get a rant of century about just how special it is...

@longyap
Yeah, we get Microsoft accounts too. I think Microsoft never offered unlimited storage.

@matrix How do you reach the realm of terabytes with ROMs? ROMs of what?

@rasterman
ROMs of basically everything. From the Commodore PET (I think, I don't remember what's the oldest there) to like 2018 PS4.
It most of Alvro's collection with big part of Nintendo stuff missing that I didn't manage to download in time.

@matrix What do you do with a PS4 ROM? Hack a PS4?

I might be interested. ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
@matrix I thought the PS4 had not been hacked. What is this sorcery? And more important, can we pirate games?

@rasterman It has, but I have no clue how you do it to yours. I think you can pirate games.

@rasterman

Your post reminded me of this, from "The Prisoner"

Number Six: Where am I?
Number Two: In the Village.
Number Six: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number Six: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Number Six: You won't get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number Six: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number Six: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man!
Number Two: [laughs]



@matrix
@Prodigal @matrix A long time ago I wanted to watch that show, but was unable to find the episodes. It seemed like the kind of surreal shit I was into. I bet they have it on Netflix and the like these days.
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