Part of the problem is also that you need to buy the right kind of medium. Some CDs and DVDs use materials that are more susceptible to disc rot and others that are more resilient. You gotta do your research.
USB-connected floppy drives are under $50, according to Amazon, because they were in fact still in use for thoroughly compatible formats.I had plenty of stuff stored on floppy discs I'll never be able to use again because nobody uses floppy drives
People have updated the drivers for Windows 10, and supporting Linux distributions shouldn't be hard to find with a basic dating check. There's also original-production USB-compatible Zip drives.put a lot of my college data on ZIP drives that haven't been readable in years
This is one is almost certainly unsolvable medium degradation, but the other two are rather easily solved with basically any effort looking into it.and burned many a CD that just spams error messages when read today.
I still have CDs & old jazz albums.Kinda, some formats have withstood the test of time better than others but you're still going to have the issue that either WORM CDs lose their data and become unreadable after a few years, and/or the disc drive to read the media your ASCII is on isn't compatible with any modern hardware so you'll have to find some antique computer that can still read your media. I had plenty of stuff stored on floppy discs I'll never be able to use again because nobody uses floppy drives, put a lot of my college data on ZIP drives that haven't been readable in years, and burned many a CD that just spams error messages when read today.
You know, paper tends to rot eventually as well; especially if you don't take care of it. The smart thing to have done would have been to back up that data on something more recent before it became unusable, and download an emulation program like DOSbox so that you can still access it on newer systems.Kinda, some formats have withstood the test of time better than others but you're still going to have the issue that either WORM CDs lose their data and become unreadable after a few years, and/or the disc drive to read the media your ASCII is on isn't compatible with any modern hardware so you'll have to find some antique computer that can still read your media. I had plenty of stuff stored on floppy discs I'll never be able to use again because nobody uses floppy drives, put a lot of my college data on ZIP drives that haven't been readable in years, and burned many a CD that just spams error messages when read today.
It's funny to me. This is the first time I've heard of Hamilton-68. Goes to show how much MSM I consume I guess.Remember how the entire media establishment used "Russian Bots" as a tagline to explain why $-TREND# was actually a evil far right fake news conspiracy non-stop from 2016 till around 2021?
Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spyworkwww.racket.news
It was all fake. Done by glowie think tanks.
We knew it was fake at the time. Do you know how many times I have been called a Russian Bot on FB and Reddit? It inspired my user title on here...Remember how the entire media establishment used "Russian Bots" as a tagline to explain why $-TREND# was actually a evil far right fake news conspiracy non-stop from 2016 till around 2021?
Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spyworkwww.racket.news
It was all fake. Done by glowie think tanks.
The race doesn't end until the slowest horse crosses the finish line.I mean, this is just proof of what was already self-evident to people who weren't drinking the kool-aid.
Lawmakers say a bill in the Iowa legislature would add transparency for parents in their children's education.
It would require school districts to give parents access to a list of all materials in their school library.
The bill would give parents the power to request their child to not check out certain materials.
And districts would have to make it easy and accessible for parents to request to have a certain book reviewed or removed.
On Tuesday afternoon, the three members of an Iowa House subcommittee listened to an hour of testimony on HF 9, a bill aimed at preventing teachers and other school staff from acknowledging the identities of transgender students unless they first receive parental permission to do so.
With only a few exceptions, the speakers testified strongly against the bill. They explained how it would put vulnerable students at risk. How lack of support puts transgender kids at heightened risk of suicide and substance abuse. How parents who reject those students can become violent, or force them to leave home. And how the bill would rupture the bond of trust that schools try to develop between students and teacher, so students feel free to discuss difficult issues with a trusted adult. None of these things are controversial — all are well-attested to by decades of study — and some pointed out that the bill likely violates existing Iowa laws against discrimination in education and Title IX of the federal code.
The first is from the Cedar Rapids, IA ABC television station.
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GOP is telling the former Twitter heads to be ready to be arrested for their interference in the 2020 elections.