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I'm looking to Marie Kondo my life, so I want to take pictures of stuff I have good memories of. However, if we get one of those big solar flare thingies that EMPs everything, all those digital photos would be gone. Granted, at first that would be the least of my worries. Is the solution to print out hundreds of photos? That would take forever just going through them. Should I get a photo printer? Pare them down and use an online printer? Keep all my stuff?
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Put the files on two hard disk drives and store them in fire safes in two separate geographic locations. A Carrington event won’t touch them in they’re in a metal safe, but you can burn them to Blu Ray discs if you want. Any form of digital data storage will have to be refreshed periodically, maybe once per decade.
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Nov 1, 2022 01:13
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Also could look into something like aws s3 glacier as a long-term last resort thing. Doesn't make sense as your primary storage but good as deep backup.
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Nov 1, 2022 01:19
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Let me tell you a secret, the photos thing is just a mental trick to allow you to get rid of stuff, you never actually look at the photos of stuff again.
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Nov 1, 2022 02:34
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smackfu posted:Let me tell you a secret, the photos thing is just a mental trick to allow you to get rid of stuff, you never actually look at the photos of stuff again. I look at my photos of stuff 
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Nov 1, 2022 02:35
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I use open office and it just plumb does not have a grammar checker. Does anyone know of a decent free, offline text editor with a grammar checker? I just need to double check for non-misspellings like 'commit ed' and change it to 'committed', for example. The 'extensions' suggested by open office itself are 5+ years out of date or have you open document text into a browser. [loud question mark, imo, what a weird way to check grammar?] And it does have to be offline, I don't always have internet access, rip. One of the open office grammar checkers requires internet access, apparently?
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Nov 1, 2022 03:01
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Beachcomber posted:I'm looking to Marie Kondo my life, so I want to take pictures of stuff I have good memories of. Put them on different cloud storage servers in different parts of the world, or one that's distributed. If it really bothers you you could even go with several different providers
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Nov 1, 2022 03:54
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Does a faraday cage not protect against damage from solar flares?
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Nov 1, 2022 13:38
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Also if we have a solar flare large enough to melt your hard drive, the loss of old photos is probably the least of our concerns.
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Nov 1, 2022 13:52
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Is a person who has HIV but is also on antiretroviral treatment such that it is undetectable still immunocompromised, or is their immune system working as well as anyone else’s due to the treatment?
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Nov 1, 2022 15:43
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Lawnie posted:Does a faraday cage not protect against damage from solar flares? Faraday cages can only protect against relatively low-frequency radiation. The higher the frequency, the less effective it is. For example, they block radio waves but not visible light. Solar flares produce a mix of all frequencies, so the lower radio wave radiation will be blocked but gamma rays, which are way higher frequency than visible light, will sail right on through. Badger of Basra posted:Is a person who has HIV but is also on antiretroviral treatment such that it is undetectable still immunocompromised, or is their immune system working as well as anyone else’s due to the treatment? With modern treatment an HIV-positive person can basically live a normal life with the virus kept down at undetectable levels to the point where it doesn't affect their immune system and isn't even transmissible. As long as they keep taking the expensive drugs each month... RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Nov 1, 2022 16:31
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Faraday cages can only protect against relatively low-frequency radiation. The higher the frequency, the less effective it is. For example, they block radio waves but not visible light. Oh duh, diffraction. Thanks for the reminder!
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Nov 1, 2022 16:58
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Wouldn't DVDs also survive a solar flare or EMP? So burn your photos to discs?
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Nov 1, 2022 17:17
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i'm connected to my work machine which is windows, and somehow everything in word disappeared except this. I looked it up and can't figure out how to get back the other menus, and the toolbar that has fonts, colors, etc. please help me i'm stupid edit: omg tools - edit document, ahhhhhh i'm dumb actionjackson fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Nov 1, 2022 18:06
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lobsterminator posted:Wouldn't DVDs also survive a solar flare or EMP? So burn your photos to discs? I was going to say "those can degrade over time" but it turns out that's like 50-100 years' time.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:50
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value-brand cereal posted:I use open office and it just plumb does not have a grammar checker. Does anyone know of a decent free, offline text editor with a grammar checker? I just need to double check for non-misspellings like 'commit ed' and change it to 'committed', for example. The 'extensions' suggested by open office itself are 5+ years out of date or have you open document text into a browser. [loud question mark, imo, what a weird way to check grammar?] have you tried libreoffice? it is a fork of openoffice made about a decade ago and tends to have better support and is more actively developed it probably has a grammar checker you can get as an extension
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Nov 1, 2022 21:51
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lobsterminator posted:Wouldn't DVDs also survive a solar flare or EMP? So burn your photos to discs? I talked backup strategies with a city archive guy, who had legit reason to be worried about solar flares and all sorts of poo poo. As i remember, DVDs, magnetic tape, disk drives and a few others were all in play because they all had various weaknesses. I think DVDs were good against dollar flares. But this was a situation with hundreds of years of data to be stored hundreds of years into the future, and with actual significance and a budget. Which is quite unlike pictures of dumb poo poo you're throwing out
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Nov 1, 2022 22:17
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BonHair posted:I talked backup strategies with a city archive guy, who had legit reason to be worried about solar flares and all sorts of poo poo. As i remember, DVDs, magnetic tape, disk drives and a few others were all in play because they all had various weaknesses. I think DVDs were good against dollar flares. Yeah, that's more or less what I was thinking. 50-100 years is plenty. Though, I mean, the far more likely threat is OP's house burning down or flooding or blowing away in a tornado rather than a solar flare devastating all the computers in their country (let alone the world). Whatever media they store it on, it won't survive those scenarios. For that reason, probably just sticking them in Dropbox or similar is realistically going to be the best protection.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:28
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Just make sure you keep around a DVD reader that can connect to all future computers
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Nov 1, 2022 23:58
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Long-term data storage is a really hard problem, the best thing to do is either a) let someone else deal with it, like amazon/google, or b) check and redo your backup every 5 years on whatever current technology is. Switch from DVD to blu-ray, or blu-ray to optical cubes, or whatever.
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Nov 2, 2022 00:59
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Is there a console fortnite thread/private games thread/discord? There must be more than the two other goons I know that play it, right?
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Nov 2, 2022 03:13
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How do we get so many different kinds of cheese from cow's milk?
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Nov 2, 2022 04:14
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I have a fleece jacket I like, but the sleeves are a bit too short. Is there some way to stretch them to be longer, maybe?ultrafilter posted:How do we get so many different kinds of cheese from cow's milk? Different bacteria cultures produce different kinds of waste products when they eat the cheese. Combine that with different storage conditions (temperature and humidity, mostly), and you change the balance of chemicals in the cheese that determine its flavor and texture.
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Nov 2, 2022 04:18
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Mister Facetious posted:Is there a console fortnite thread/private games thread/discord? there's a thread in videogames https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3853386 a bunch of posters in the cspam videogame thread also started playing it recently https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3874955 you can try asking in those threads
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Nov 2, 2022 05:32
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When English people say "mum" are they saying "ma'am" but pronouncing it "mum"? Like when Daniel Craig says "yes mum" to M, is he saying yes ma'am?
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dokmo posted:When English people say "mum" are they saying "ma'am" but pronouncing it "mum"? Like when Daniel Craig says "yes mum" to M, is he saying yes ma'am? yes the British pronunciation of ma'am sounds like Mom to the English ear. and In Skyfall specifically I think they're playing with that ambiguity on purpose
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Nov 2, 2022 23:43
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kalel posted:yes the British pronunciation of ma'am sounds like Mom to the English ear. and In Skyfall specifically I think they're playing with that ambiguity on purpose It's also alluded to in Quantum of Solace. Bond: "He tried to kill a friend of mine. A woman. But not like that." Camille: "Your mother?" Bond: "She'd like to think so." Or something like that, I'm paraphrasing
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Follow up question: how dumb was my question, on a scale from that was the dumbest question I ever heard to no actually that comes up quite a bit, many people are confused by the pronunciation.
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Nov 3, 2022 01:43
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At the time I watched the movie I assumed it was a weird British thing and that he was saying "mum."
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Nov 3, 2022 01:56
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I def thought it was a thing that the 00s called her mum (mom) and that they were all orphans raised/trained as children like in MGS.
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Nov 3, 2022 02:49
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dokmo posted:Follow up question: how dumb was my question, on a scale from that was the dumbest question I ever heard to no actually that comes up quite a bit, many people are confused by the pronunciation. If it helps, I've wondered the same thing about mum / ma'am. But I'm also pretty dumb so keep that in mind.
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dokmo posted:Follow up question: how dumb was my question, on a scale from that was the dumbest question I ever heard to no actually that comes up quite a bit, many people are confused by the pronunciation. When Skyfall came out the James Bond thread in CineD was basically nothing but slap fights over this for multiple weeks, so at least you've got company.
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Nov 3, 2022 03:20
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What does SYQ mean?
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The song Restless by Small Parks just came on and I have a really strong feeling that I know it from somewhere. The first line in particular is extremely familiar. I think it must have been used as a theme song on some TV show (or YouTube series or something?) but the band isn't even big enough to have a Wikipedia page and I can't find anything by googling. Anyone else recognise this song and have any idea where I would have heard it originally?
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Nov 3, 2022 04:46
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Eason the Fifth posted:What does SYQ mean? Source Your Quotes
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Nov 3, 2022 04:54
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Was Michael Jackson bigger than the Beatles?
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Nov 3, 2022 06:43
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Baron Porkface posted:Was Michael Jackson bigger than the Beatles? Not by weight or volume. 
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Nov 3, 2022 06:46
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Baron Porkface posted:Was Michael Jackson bigger than the Beatles? No. The Beatles sold 1.6-2 billion albums. Jackson sold 750 million.
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Nov 3, 2022 06:53
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists makes for interesting reading, though it cites lower numbers for both The Beatles and Michael Jackson
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At work I spend all day driving, after several hours I feel and can smell that im kinda greasy and deodorant doesn't seem to cover it, how do I solve this?
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