My hard drives are PHYSICAL media.
Digital media is fine as long as it’s liberated from the shackles of DRM
I was hoping something like Project Silica would take off for home use
I believe in a “legally obtained” digital media stored on my own hardware.
Its always a good idea to make backups of your local library’s media. You just never know. 🤓
Does “legally obtained” in quotes mean “illegally obtained”? Good on 'ya.
I’m thinking buying physical media is great and shopping for physical media is so much more interesting.
Using physical media is a hassle, I much prefer to rip the contents, then convert the stuff as necessary.
…Books are an exception. I just recently rediscovered that reading isn’t annoying actually, because you don’t have weird technical and DRM issues with physical books and you can keep reading the pages for hours and hours. My tablet sucks, but physical books don’t keep freezing!
I recently bought a tiny eink reader which is great. Plus it’s flashable and heaps of community around it - I also love the idea of reading books but they just don’t fit into my day to day life very well!
Which reader?
physical media supremacy
optical media disc rot
And not a single Game Boy cartridge. Now I’m just disappointed.
Aren’t the batteries in those coming up on their end of life? I remember reading stories years ago about how those carts were starting to fail as the batteries died.
Game Boy carts don’t fail when the batteries die, they just lose their dave data. And most games didn’t even use battery saves. Thankfully replacing the batteries is a pretty simple job!
VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.
DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)
My collection of movies and videos are saved on my PHYSICAL drives
When everything collapses, people who own multiple DVD players will be the new tech bros. /s
As one said: “optical media bad”
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But I don’t agree
