How do you think that is in any way even remotely relevant to what I said? If the drive your file is on dies and you didn't copy it to another one a checksum won't help you.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And if your vinyl collection catches fire it also gets lost, what's your point? That's an argument for preservation of storage media, not for intrinsic benefits of analog.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You cannot possibly be this stupid. I refuse to believe it. If you stuff a vinyl record in a cabinet for a century, you'll still have a mostly functional recording. If you stuff an SSD in a cabinet for a decade you'll probably just have a paperweight at the end, and that's comparing 70 year old analog storage technology to the current standard of digital storage. This is a consistent pattern throughout all of history. Analog storage is just far, far more robust to data loss. All the error-correction in the world doesn't help if you aren't actually running that error-correction constantly forever. That is the entire point I've been trying to make this whole time that everyone just keeps ignoring to spout non sequiturs about how digital data transmission works at me.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So your only point is "analog has less maintenance". Sure, it has less maintenance. But digital with maintenance has no losses, and analog with maintenance does.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, my "only" point is that analog has less maintenance. If you want anything to last more than a decade, maintenance is the only thing that matters. How long will something last is the same question as how hard is it to maintain. They are the same thing.