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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • This 1000 years thing is how (at least on paper) the main components of the medium can chemically stay intact and bonded together. You want this as stable as possible since more stability means more resistance to outside forces like moisture and such. Most discs suffering from disc rot today had a number between 5 years (baaaaad) and 200 years (still not great) and are decaying now.

    So don’t take things like this too literally.


















  • That people call me a shill for recommending the stuff from the company I work for which I only recommend because
    A) I know it so I can help them with their problems and
    b) I got it cheaper, so I tried it and I know that it’s alright

    But people will first ask me “because I work at a Telco” and then not believe me because “of course you’d say that, you work at a Telco”.

    I was adding a personal anecdote to the argument you made that people calling out “shills” often depends on if they share your opinion or not.