• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Always keep offline backup copies of your important data regardless of using AI slop to look over it! No, I don’t care that “optical media is obsolete and e-waste!”, or that “tapes are a 100 year old obsolete technology compared to cheap SSDs from TEMU!”.

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      10 hours ago

      Optical media? Is that a viable part of backup strategies? I would expect tapes for sure, sounds like you know more than me.

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        9 hours ago
        1. Better than not having an offline copy.
        2. Write-only, ransomware cannot delete/encrypt it.
        3. Drives are still cheap.

        Downside is having techbros talk you about laser rot, how internal drives are obstructing the optimal airflow in GAMING PC cases, and how Gabe Newell is based and stuff.