The answer is ALWAYS 42!
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Right now, sure, otherwise we've had the Easystore for 309.99 last year so it'll probably come this year too, maybe even under 300.
THIS. I don't have time to watch probably 1-10% of the new stuff that might interest me, heck any time now I'll give up and realise I won't be able to make a dent in what I have ALREADY saved (I have in Pocket/readitlater many saves that are more than 5 years old, well probably more like 10-15, and there I need just to skim through an article and marked it read, and still I can't just sit down every now and then and go through a few of them, even if they are all interesting).
Yes, the content was really good but there was some "business change" a while back. I've no idea how anyone would try to monetise in any other way these videos, I think it's impossible.
The loss here is that when they were easily accessible and referenced by many people you find and revisit some funny thing, or small quirk, or something that stuck interesting that stuck in your mind and you could point people to them. But it really isn't a big thing overall, except on ideological DHer principles.
Media files ARE already in an accesibile folder in Android (Android/media/com.whatsapp or just WhatsApp/ on older devices). The text chat backups are encrypted (big shenanigans, cam look through my comments in the relevant post) but the media should be there without trouble.
Surely not, assuming the pics are from the drive in question.
Do you have 2TB of data handy to copy over to see?
No need for that, you can use something like the classic H2testw to just fill it and check it automatically.
rclone of course.
Hard drive manufacturers should take note of the botched job they've done with the SMRs if people feel the need to say a Green from 2009 is CMR (never mind that all greens were long gone by the time WD actually matched Seagate and started submarining SMRs too).