• When I can’t wrap my head around a technical document or journal article, I print it. My brain craves paper. I’m a software engineer, so believe me that I would be live inside the computer if I could.

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        4 months ago

        😮 I definitely read better on my smartphone than on big paper, I always get lost if the medium is too large…

        Maybe that’s just my age🤔

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      4 months ago

      I’ve heard cybersec guys say they print off things like recovery codes and keep the physical copy stored. Also, entire governments still run on pen and paper (shitty inefficient governments).

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        4 months ago

        " And every citizen that’s living in this city Is a digit on the charts we’re climbing Political systems are too inefficient They split like the atom and burned in the fission Now every department and every decision Defer to the herds of our corporate divisions " shitty inefficient governments are probably better than otherwise

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      4 months ago

      Hard copies. You should always keep hardcopies of your most important documents, financial records and certifications. Especially when users can be locked out of a cloud storage these days because an AI decided to flag their account.

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        4 months ago

        Jesus invented thumbdrives and HDDs SSDs etc for this very reason, the cloud is just my offsite back up of that… having been kicked off “the cloud” by MS some years ago, fcuk those guys.

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          I recently learned that SSDs do not reliably store data for long amounts of time when unpowered.