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  • If you get cheap large flash drives the thing that’s wrong with them is QLC memory, and the fact flash memory rots over time.

    Bitrot is a thing no matter the medium it’s just what timescale we’re talking about. Blurays are the poor man’s LTO tape backups. M-disks were also good for a long time too. Very stable and high density.

    However there is a way to make flash drives work for a backup solution. I would pair drives together in mirrors under ZFS. Maybe 4-6 drives in a pool, with 2-3 mirrors. That way you have error detection (ZFS checksums for every bit of data stored), and error correction (mirrored data across drives, along with the checksum to verify which copy is good).

    It also allows you to run “ZFS scrub <pool>” to check everything once a month or so and detect corruption and fix it. ZFS can also identify a drive that’s failing from consistent errors.

    Edit: if you don’t run Linux you could manage this using a raspberry pi 3 or 4 as the host. It could be a very low power and cheap NAS.





  • iocase@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonewheel rule
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    2 days ago

    But how will I spend 3 years making my 2D platformer thats as generic as possible except for one slight difference I implemented poorly?

    You’re taking away all of the fun of posting my 2D platformer post mortem #204582910058 where I refuse to see reality and never understand why my game sucks or why it flopped!


  • When you do the math on how much it costs both a private citizen along with the public to enable cars as transportation it’s mind boggling.

    The province I live in makes around $90-100B / year in tax revenue, and spends around $4.5-5.5B / year on roads and road maintenance.

    There’s also the hidden cost of road work caused by utilities being replaced, struck, or newly installed. We pay thx bill for that through our telecom, power, sewer .etc

    Insurance, gas, car payments…

    If a road is built to last 10 years then technically on average you’re replacing ⅒ of your roads every year. Utilities are the same and trenching/patching is horrible for roads necessitating rework on them earlier than the life expectancy. A fiber line might have a 40 year life span, but installing it turned a 20 year road into a 10 year replacement.