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Given that I pretty much only use my windows PC for gaming, I think I'll pass on upgrading for round corners lol

what if you lack the fragments needed to reverse engineer/reconstruct a means to access the information?

Well that's a different question, because now it sounds like you're assuming that significant data loss will occur before it's read. If the storage unit itself is damaged in the meantime to where it's data is corrupted beyond recovery, then yes - that's a potential total loss scenario. Assuming however that the storage unit remains intact, I don't see how a dedicated team of smart individuals couldn't handle it, unless their technology is somehow inferior to ours.

It's also worth considering that this storage unit probably won't be their very first interactions with modern data storage systems. This may or may not be their first interaction with a data storage system that was actually written from modern times, but unless we have a total technological collapse in the intervening 10,000 years, chances are they'll have records from our time that have been copied over however many thousands of times to make it there. Afterall, to use a much less extreme example, I don't need to get my hands on a CD-Rom or Floppy Disk burned in 1991 to get a copy of Linux 0.01, it's been copied over and over through the years and is now available for download online. Data will surely degrade over time, and large chunks will get lost as people stop copying things they think are no longer important, but I feel pretty confident in the idea that enough pieces will make it that far that these scientists (techno-archeologists?) won't be starting from scratch

Depends on what you mean by punish or censor.

If you're being an asshole on social media, I absolutely have the right to "punish" you by downvoting your post and calling you an idiot. If I'm the owner or moderator of the platform you're being an asshole on, then I absolutely have the right to censor you by banning you - or just blocking you if I'm an individual user.

I do agree that the government doesn't have a right to intervene however, unless you take it far enough that it constitutes targeted harassment - but in my experience, when most people complain about being "censored" for being asshole, they really mean that privately owned platforms are deciding to not host their BS

There is no right to not have to put up with assholes.

EDIT: Because @charonn0@startrek.website keeps making comments then immediately deleting them, I'll just answer here for when he finally finds a version of his response he's satisfied with - since they've all been basically the same.

If you say "Of course I meant purely the legal aspect, that's what I was saying the whole time", then I'd point you to the comment of yours I actually responded to, which was

There is no right to not have to put up with assholes.

This is the remark that I've been talking about, and you don't need to government to intervene in order to not have to put up with assholes. If you said "There is no right to have people you think are assholes put in jail", then obviously I'd agree with you, but that's not what you said. What you said is that we all have to just put up with assholes because we don't have the right to stop them from being assholes, which is factually untrue for all the reasons that I've already stated

yup - early on in my career, working at a specific FAANG company was my life's greatest ambition, now I don't think there's any amount of money they might feasibly offer me that would make me work there lol - Once you have enough income to be comfortable, work life balance is worth more than anything

“What if the future computer systems simply aren’t compatible with the old filesystems, thus indicating nothing as being present on the storage media (if it’s even recognized as storage media to test)?”

We've reconstructed archaic languages that no living person speaks from fragments of written records, I find it unlikely that we'll be completely unable to reverse engineer an ancient file system architecture - especially since the most likely course for someone actually reading one of these 1000's of years in the future is for the reader to be from a more technologically advanced civilization.

Think of what modern archeologists would give to have the equivalent of a wikipedia archive from 10,000 years ago - imagine the colossal amounts of grant funding that would be thrown at the problem if we even suspected such a thing was within reach.

Of course all the other issues about keeping the actual system safe for 10k years are totally valid, but you have to start somewhere, and getting a data storage system that can last that long even in perfect conditions is the necessary first step.

Is there even any actual positive for upgrading? I haven't heard a single good thing about Windows 11 vs 10

Yeah frankly I'm tired of this rhetoric that you have to either be 100% pro Isreal or 100% pro hamas. It's possible to condemn Hamas while also condemning the treatment of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israel

Even better, the competent ones ask for more money

Seriously the actions of all these big companies shows they don't really give a shit about retaining top talent. Unfortunately, for big name companies, they'll always have an inflow of talented new grads who are willing to give up their dignity to get their name on their resumes, and it's cheaper (in the short term, which is all shareholders care about) to churn and burn them then to invest in long term talent

There is no right to not have to put up with assholes.

Sure there is. It's called freedom of association

My b, guess I meant sunny side up

They STILL do this? I remember people saying they buy refurbished or open-box graphics cards and received bricks. That was more than a decade ago.

They'll keep doing it until it stops being cost effective. The fact is that the number of fraudsters are drastically outnumbered by good actors, and compared to their revenue, a few missing graphics cards are literally nothing

Yeah I've been losing weight recently, and a 5k Run burns about 500-600 calories for someone my size. That's a shit load of effort, and not something an overweight person is likely able to do every day. But 600 calories is like a single big mac (just the burger). There's only so many calories you can reasonably burn in a day, but there's practically no limit to how many you can eat (none that you're likely to find without making yourself sick at least)