Folks, it's time to face the truth.
The Internet has long been a cake, remembers not everything and will only get worse.
And much worse!
Governments of all countries confidently put dicks on freedom, punish thought crimes and impose censorship. AI will soon be helping them, and/or geopolitical blocks will be taken apart.
This whole fucking thing seems inevitable to me. No one can stop them. . .
What can a normal chipmunk do about it? The same thing as usual is to drag everything that is not nailed to your mink while there is such a possibility.
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We will be discussing content storage.
Save what? What's the first thing to censor? What's more useful in life?
Where to save it? Micro-SD package, HDD box, streamer cassette cabinet?
How to save? Save the page as...? youtube-dlg?
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Let me start with my brief story:
I’ve never been able to connect two lines of code. I'm an illiterate scuff, afraid of the console like fire. Especially Linux consoles.
When WWII began, I bought an external RAID array for 6 SATA discs on Avito. Scsi causes to it (controller in PCI, cable, terminator). And six 2TB screws. BU, the most deshmanistic, but in excellent condition and with minimal work.
He also took out from the balcony a box with screws, bought a couple of years ago with magnets, from one of the enikei. I wanted to grab them, but my hand didn't go up. Some of them were quite good, but most of them were already one head in a flower beetle. Troubles, dumps of heads, hanging in the middle of work - a full bouquet of diseases.
I sent it back to the balcony. And those that showed at least some signs of adequacy - drove Victoria, sorted into the first / second grade and divided into logical disks so that the dead sectors remained in an unmarked space.
I had not just a lot of time, but a lot of time. Then I was an unemployed covid dissident of the RNN, a gentleman with a penny mined in well-fed times. I kept the content almost manually.
I saved all the channels that I subscribed to on YouTube with the help of YouTube-dl-gui. Tupo opened a list of subscriptions, clicked on channels in order, fed the page address "all videos" and saved each channel in a separate folder. As the screws were filled, he glued paint tape on them, on which he signed the screw number, its volume of everything / occupied, its condition, the initial letters of the channels.
On RAID, I saved as many Rutrecker books as I could. Competent/natural/scientific/medical/... Dumbly rocked everything on the magnetic links in the manual.
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It's been a long time since then. Now I'm not an RNN, I'm a shift worker. That archive is never open. I'm always paranoid. And looking back, I realize that what I did was shit. Which I'll never do again.
RAID array, although not server, but office, but still too noisy to live at home. At the same time, too small. The only reasonable scenario for its use is to buy batches of six screws, record information on them, remove them from the array and bury them separately. And the noise during the recording is stressful. This is not a NAS that will run 24/7.
The box of individual random screws is generally a very ersatz-panic solution. When there is no money, do something urgently.
Reliability? Whatever. Since then, I haven't taken them out of the balcony or even HZ like they are.
Convenience? Fuck off. There is no way to keep this archive up to date – it will take too long. Some screws are fully occupied, some half empty.