A 16Tb manufacturer recertified drive is USD160 which should sort storage (and later get a second for offline backup). I'm actually holding out until I get GPU encode (apparently CPU is somewhat better, but power considerations, maybe next gen). Do wish the scene would get on with switching, though, are we dinosaurs?

There are a whole bunch of people who might be scientists who are not in academia.

Be Excellent To Each Other...

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…

Mostly less efficient vultures, but way more magnificent, so they've got that going for them. (In Australia, so the Wedge Tail eagle is the niche filler and very much a scavenger, always a pleasure to see tho)

Also, "Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity/Incompetence", one form of Hanlon's razor.

So, Transitively, courage is not malicious?

Seems unlikely if you outright own it, this is for bought on a plan type stuff, no ?

Edit: On further reading, apparently not. WTAF?

Sure, artist gets to choose... I guess this is an example of cartoon being a subset of meme then, on the internet even :)

One backup on site on a different medium

One offline backup.

Backup on a different medium is archaic advice unless you're willing to fork $$$ out for a tape drive system. DVDs don't cut it in the era of 20Tb HDDs. I'd argue that HDD is the only practical media currently for > 4Tb at less than enterprise scale. Backblaze might be considered a different medium I guess.

Higher res version... https://www.travelrealizations.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/LD1-2-2000x1838.jpg

I've seen Elon Musk nick'd as ElMo, so it get's meta...

And you're not wrong, hence here.

Not intentional, or more likely staged. YMMV.