What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?
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I setup tinyrss a month or so ago, I just can't get into it. Any tips?
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I setup tinyrss a month or so ago, I just can't get into it. Any tips?
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Magnetic tape. It's one of the better long-term offline backup solutions. It is compact, inexpensive, has no moving parts (bearings, motors, reader heads), no scratchable surfaces, and can last for decades in a moderately climate-controlled room.
Just keep it away from magnets... or iron vaults. According to an anecdote (that I can't find right now), a large bank vault was repurposed as an offsite backup storage, except it kept wiping the magnetic tapes because the thick iron walls reacted to changes in the geomagnetic field.
I'd love to get into tape backups for my stuff. But the price for the drives is absolutely unjustifiable for hobbyists unfortunately.
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Also all of german bureaucracy still works only with fax
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Generally what are you using it for? I've had trouble finding uses outside of youtube and a handful of news sites.
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Caring about your employees as if they were humans.
Hi, number! It’s your colleague: Another number!
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Generally what are you using it for? I've had trouble finding uses outside of youtube and a handful of news sites.
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I follow some blogs, news sites, and GitHub project releases so I'm up to date to what I'm interested in.
github is a good one, I didn't think of that. Thank you
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Safty razors! Why would anyone spend 20$ on the new fangled 30 million blade razor that mighy last one shave? When you can spend pennies even if you change blades every shave.
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Hi, number! It’s your colleague: Another number!
So how about that SPORTING EVENT last weekend?
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Secure fax is encrypted: it’s sent via https.
Thats just scan to email with extra steps
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Your mom
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Nah, gotta got vinyl because cassettes deteriorate just sitting in their cases while vinyl stays pristine ... until you actually play it, anyway -- but if you want to store an audio recording for longevity, press a gold version of a vinyl album.
With both, it also matters how you store it. But like I said, (modern) cassettes are not for HiFi. If I really want to immerse myself in a record, I need the vinyl. The whole experience is just so much fun.
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I loved netvibes to get daily comics and blog posts. Unfortunately people stopped writing blogs and netvibes is also gone
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Buttons, knobs, plastic bezels.
At least according to the industry those are all in the past. The future is screens that go to the very edge of the device and absolutely nothing tactile.
And it is bullshit. It is less reliable, less convenient, less cool -- To say nothing of the safety disaster that nailing a tablet computer to the dashboard of every car has been.
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I loved netvibes to get daily comics and blog posts. Unfortunately people stopped writing blogs and netvibes is also gone
Blogs are having a timid resurgence I would say. Also not everyone stopped writing blogs, I have been following some since 2008 or so... When Google Reader was a thing lol
I think they are a lot more obscure because we prioritise social networks over blogs, so do search indexers. But they are still there!
Comics are now mostly on Instagram, but you can make Instagram RSS feeds with things like rss-bridge
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Fortran, probably
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Counterpoint, fax is not encrypted and wire taps are very easy. At least e-mail can be encrypted so Joe shmoe on the street can't see it.
Besides, all faxing these days is going through VOIP and computers anyways.
Having to physically wire tap the phone line is a lot more difficult and requires local bad actors. Email’s exposure to the internet makes it easier to hack. Yes, email can be encrypted, but if your server is compromised, that doesn’t matter. Compromising a fax machine that isn’t connected to the internet is nearly impossible.
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