I put the (fabric) grocery bags next to my bag and/or backpack which I will take along on the way to work, so I’ll remember to take them along as well. Mostly. But there’s a backup bag or two in the car and a backup bag in the bag so even if I forget things four times over, I can still carry a fair bit of stuff when needed.

Why did the reuse old master tapes?

Money. Or the perception that there isn’t money to be gained from the replication and maintenance of the archives.

Could be worse, of course.

No. The Internet doesn’t care about some neverheard’s weight changes.

I guess you weren’t in the ring.

Right. Site plugins or something.

Could it cure their multiposting?

Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.

Maybe even a transdator

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

I would have settled for “sauna good”. Which I knew already as a finn.

There is the small hope that all this work has lead to better processes and checks to make finding problems, mistakes, and abuse more easily and cheaply.

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.

Here’s one nice list which also reflects the status of their usefulness. Physical availability varies widely, though.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

I think it’s more like a door slam without a door.

That sounds like an awfully broad target.

A programmer is a device for turning caffeine into code (to borrow a math joke).

That is correct.

Lemming?