Another bot war is brewing. You can now buy popcorn. 
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We should welcome our time travelling friend from the year 9999.
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I lost my external hard drive a week or so ago. I think I plugged the wrong cable in and it over-volted, frying both the USB-to-SATA and hard drive PCBs. Was a bit heartbroken at first since I’ve been collecting music in that library since my late teens but thankfully I found a backup from 2023, and recovery will be trivial. It’s been a busy time for me, wish I was able to focus on the task a bit more though.
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The pain of loosing a music collection is too much. Glad you got most of it back. Now just starve yourself for a week and don’t eat anything so you can afford a spare USB backup drive.
I hope other learn from this lesson. Always have your music in multiple places.
My main server’s music hard drive failed last year 
but thankfully was backed up. Just needed to wait a day to have the recovery rebuild… 
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Not a paid shill (I promise) but I experienced the same thing a few years ago, never again I told myself and have been subscribed to https://www.backblaze.com/ ever since which is one of the best “set and forget” backup products out there for value, and covers external drives (you’ll be prompted to reconnect it every so often to get a backup).
As for restoration you can do it via the internet, or if you’ve got TB’s of data (like moi) then you can request they mail you a HDD of your data, and if you don’t want additional cost you send them it back once you’re done!
Unpaid shill out!
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Can MP3 files contain malware and viruses?
I’m driving my electric car, I turn on this song
in the built-in player and then the GPS goes crazy or on the highway the car suddenly brakes on its own.
Unless it’s a badly (very badly) coded mp3 player, no. Altough it might be signs of electrical issues/shorted wires. Try another song, and if it does, go see a mechanic
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Yeah, I’ll have to have a look at Backblaze. Friend of mine uses it for their libraries too. I’d need to research it a bit more, given that my music server uses Linux (but I think if I have the external drive backup every so often, this point doesn’t matter) and I might use Linux as a main desktop OS as well (Backblaze’s personal plan doesn’t support Linux).
That sucks. Linux’s file systems (mainly ext4 and btrfs) are way more reliable than window’s NTFS. They don’t even have unmovable files that prevent you from reducing the partition without 3rd party tools.
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God-dang it i absolutely hate the flood of terrible AI cover art thats coming out these days
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>open phonk artist’s discography
>dies inside
For me it’s not really the AI art being the problem, but the terrible lack of originality and artistic value. And no, deep frying your art with way too many LORAs doesn’t make it good either.
I love good cover arts. I intentionally mess up my completed albums to have the single’s coverarts instead. So it’s just sad when I see artists just not care about it
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AFAIK, it’s to stop people from abusing the cheaper Personal plans to back up their datacenters when they should be using the more expensive plans. It works in WINE but Backblaze can stop that at any moment.
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Chuck Norris put the entire Internet on a floppy disk.
I am not a Citizen representative, but I am interested in whether this is true:
"With bold design and superior accuracy, Citizen A•T watches synchronize
to an atomic clock with a margin of error of just one second in 100,000 years."
https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/collection/mens-atomic-timekeeping/
Your Citizen advert does not say how often in synchronises. Yes, atomic clocks are really accurate. But if the Citizen watch lost five seconds a day, and only resynchronised once a week, then it will still be wrong.
Your Windows PC synchronises with atomic clocks. But then so do most things now (see NTP)
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“synchronizes”
It was obvious, but I didn’t want to write it myself.
But for the price of $1000 you get:
- Perpetual calendar (recognizes 28, 30 and 31 days)
- Summer time (recognizes summer and winter time)
- No need to replace the battery
So what do you do every four years on Feb 29th? Do you just not get out of bed? 
It is kinda funny to see something advertising “we know how a calendar works” as if it is a feature.
I had all these features on my old clockwork timex for far less. Just needed the odd manual adjustment.
My Timex also had the bonus of radioactive glow in the dark paint.
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Ivan you don’t understand. No offense.
This is all for the so-called comfort of 21st century homo sapiens.
Set it and forget it.
I also have a Timex despite the teasing that it is the weaker brother of the Rolex.