@NoBeret@noauthority.social
I'd be interested except for not being an American and not trusting some shuttle built by diversity hires.
I usually say that while Linux phones have issues those can all be fixed but the privacy and security issues will never be fixed on an iPhone, it's built in and expected behavior.
Trick is to not participate and have some will power.
Got more class than my cat. He's more of a wife beater wearing Jack Daniels drinker.
Please #boost. I'm looking for devices for storing long-term digital archives of files (text, PDF, etc, nothing exotic). Needs to be fairly futureproof. Probably doesn't need to be super high capacity (but it can be). I know certain kinds of optical media are designed for long-term storage, but I doubt our ability to find the right kind of drives in ten or twenty years, thus thinking USB will be a fairly stable physical interface. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
Doesn't have to be bottom-of-the-barrel; if (say) a typical USB stick isn't likely to work long term but some other USB-readable device is, I can look into that.
EDIT: After some reading I'm leaning toward an HDD, in FAT32 or EXFAT format, in a USB enclosure, with written instructions to spin it up once a year and reproduce it on new media every five years.
#archives #digitalArchiving #digitalArchives #askFedi #storage #DigitalPreservation
Solid plan.
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.