On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 8:46:28 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 2:16:14 PM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
> > On 2021 Mar 16, , dsi1 wrote
> > (in >):
> > > Let me tell you, I have no idea what's the best way to archive data these
> > > days. It's certainly not optical drives and magnetic drives or any mechanical
> > > drives. A short while ago, optical drives were thought to be a good choice
> > > for long term storage. I got a bunch of CDs and DVDs in folders. My guess is
> > > that most of the disks are unreadable now. That don't matter much since I
> > > don't have any optical drives anyway.
> > Buy a Mac and a cheap external hard drive. Enable Time Machine. That´s
> > it.
>
> Time Machine? Apple's getting way advanced!

Don't put it past them. But even if they or other multi-national big tech made such discoveries, i'm sure they'd keep it under wraps so well that we'd still be in the dark.