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Greg Utas wrote: Eventually, it will be almost impossible to buy DVDs or a DVD drive.
??? You can still get 5-1/4s! (Not new, mind you...)
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Wow - the prices are better than I was paying in 1984!
May have to get some in case they come back into fashion!
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Quote: might be stone
You're not far off. Manufacturers of M-Discs claim that their medium is much like engraving in stone. They guarantee a lifetime of 1,000 years! My main question: Will man (and woman) still be around in a 1,000 years? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Interesting. I heard it sung by Exordium & Terminus.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Don't be silly.
A Microsoft Coaster®™ would be water soluble ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should really backup to flash drive 
(You can't tell me what to do!)
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Microsoft is actually doing you a favor. Few things are worth backing up. At first you'll be devastated that they are gone. Then after that fades in 6 months, you won't remember what you didn't successfully back up anyway 
For me, other than family photos, nothing is worth the trouble. And even at that, all the things that matter are in my head!
Hogan
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Cp-Coder wrote: And don't tell me I should rather backup to flash drives! I'm a DVD man!
I'd understand backing up some media that originated from DVD, but even double-layer Blu-ray discs (50GB) are way too small for my regular backup set. The full thing currently leaves about 1.5TB free on my 10TB drive. So flash drives are out as well.
And that's just the stuff I care about backing up.
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You need LTO mag tape, don't you. 
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I wish hard drive capacity was keeping up. I don't want a RAID to be involved in my backup scheme.
I've used LTO tapes before (salvaged the hardware from a business shutdown, used it for my own purposes for a while). Problem is, it's ridiculously expensive for an end user.
And I hate using the proprietary software. Need to quickly restore a random file in a random folder? Good luck with that. Backing up to hard drives with robocopy, I can do just that as if the backup set was just another drive - because that's exactly what it is.
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Wow. That was so amazing I didn't mind the sponsor section.
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Not sure if Chrome/other browsers do that, but Edge is annoying in this way:
If I go (for example) to https://www.codeproject.com, and copy that (literal) string from the address bar, and then paste it into something like OneNote (or any other app that lets you create links), what gets pasted is text showing "CodeProject - For those who code", which is a clickable link that brings you to the site. I don't want to get the URL obscured in this way.
I've taken the habit of pasting into Notepad first (which doesn't know what to do with links, so it only keeps what I actually copied to the clipboard), and then copy that plain-text URL back onto the clipboard, and paste back into OneNote.
It's not a feature of OneNote; if I copy a URL from IE instead (it is, after all, still present), then I get the actual URL instead of this crap. Like it's been doing for a million years.
I'm coming up short in terms of Google keywords to try to disable this, so the URL itself is copied rather than the title of the page at that location. Thoughts?
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Does it still happen if you shift+paste?
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Yes.
Although in the case of OneNote, the right-click menu presents 3 options to paste - only the last option (labeled Keep Text Only) seems to filter the rest of the crap out.
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Settings | Share, copy, and paste | Plain Text.
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Well aren't you a godsend...
Thanks. This may very well preserve what little is left of my sanity.
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go to the Edge settings, search for copy/paste, then change the setting "default format for copy and paste" (may not be the exact wording), to "only text".
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I see you have some solutions, already - but I was going to suggest this one[^] as a long-term and preemptive solution for problems linked to the concept of 'absurd'.
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There's always that solution. Took me long enough to abandon IE, you think I'm gonna switch browsers just because of this?
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dandy72 wrote: you think I'm gonna switch browsers just because of this?
Please select all that apply (and any you just like):
[ ] Just reminder to Keep Options Open
[ ] Preemptively avoid next MS(Edge) attack on sanity
[ ] Reply drawn from approved "Gratuitous Replies List"
[ ] Having learned your lesson you may move more quickly, this time*
[ ] Randomly Check any of the above.
[ ] I refuse to select any of these options
* isn't Edge becoming Chrome, anyway?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 19-Feb-21 10:30am.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: isn't Edge becoming Chrome, anyway?
It's Chrome, but without sending all the data to Google. Frankly that's all I need.
(and yes, I realize the data's being sent to MS instead...but I'm a lot more comfortable having my data slurped up by them than by the world's largest advertising company).
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dandy72 wrote: without sending all the data to Google
So it's where the data goes rather than who gets it?
Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges | Threatpost[^] - although not that convincing.
One telling comment I read in a search-blurb (search by google, of course) is that with Edge built into Windows, you are already effectively compromised. Like how they have built into a .dll an override to your hosts file so you cannot circumvent their domains.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: with Edge built into Windows, you are already effectively compromised
Even if Edge "compromised" the OS, the OS is made by the same company--there's not much the browser can provide to MS that the OS can't already obtain.
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