Yes, tape has very steep entry costs and requires maintenance and storage.

Most of the time it doesn’t make sense for a person to use it, but rather a corporate entity that needs to backup petabytes of data multiple times a day.

So tape doesn’t make sense for the typical person, unless you don’t have to buy the equipment and store i.

But, if you’re even a small company it becomes cheaper to use tape.

Companies don’t like deleting data. Ever. In fact some industries have laws that say they can’t delete data.

For example, the company I work in is small, but old. Our accounting department alone requires complex automated processes to do things each day that require data to be backed up.

From the beginning of time. I shit you not. There is no compression even.

And at the drop of a hat, the IT dept needs to be able to implement a backup from any time in the past. Although this almost never happens outside of the current pay cycle, they need to have the option available.

The best way they have to facilitate this (I hate it - like I said they’re old) is to simply write everything multiple times a night. And it’s everything since we started using digital storage. Yes, it’s overkill and makes no sense, but that’s the way it is for us. And that’s the way it is for a lot of companies.

So, when we’re talking about that amount of data, and tape having a storage cost advantage of 4:1 over disk, it more than pays for all the overhead for enterprise level backups.

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Speaking of slasher films, does anybody know of any movies that have terrible everything except a really good plot?

Bro, trying to give padding in Ms word, when you know… YOU KNOOOOW… they can convert to html. It drives me up the wall.

And don’t get me started on excel.

Kill em all, I say.

Thanks!

Do you have any videos? Can you record tracks and musical production type stuff?

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Sean, I didn’t mean to offend you or insinuate that I didn’t like Barbie. I have a daughter, and watched it with her and watch the dreamhouse show with her on Netflix all the time. I actually really liked the movie - except the long boring parts where they tried to justify Barbie’s existence in our modern society.

Yes, those movies also have heavy product placements, but it doesn’t somehow excuse all other movies from having them, if that is your point.

My point is that piracy has already impacted our lives. The commercials in movies are the evidence. Further piracy will cause either more ads in media or less content that targets the demographic of people that pirate (ie 18-35 yo men probably).

Or they’ll start injecting ads directly into the media.

Oh wait, they’re already doing this. I forgot about the 45 minute Chevy ad in Barbie.

It’s not even back two. There’s a glitch that reloads your default page because if you refresh it will take you to the correct page.

How can any Fediverse instance withstand that kind of force? Really the only way is to not save anything, or perhaps some sort of blockchain for all the comments and posts?

Portal 1 is still great. It’s way funnier, and I think has a creepier vibe, specifically because of how little information you’re given.

2 is, yeah - a more fully realized game. Also, if you didn’t already know: co-op mode gives a whole new set of puzzles that can only be solved with 2 people working together. Finding that and playing it with my friend was my fav part of either game.

Yeah, for all of Jobs’ “vision” cell phones were really just a way to profit of of free information.

“protesters”… I’m sure Spez is sadly walking to the bank to cash all of his checks from all the money he made on r/place from the “protesters.”

I really need hoverZoom+ to work on Lemmy. I will use anything that allows that, and this may be great, but I’ll never know because no hoverZoom.

*Chinese billionaires