90% of users when they are presented with the UAC popup when they do something:

"Yes yes whateverrr"

Usually iterations of:

"Closed and locked due to duplicate of: (question asked 9 years ago about Visual Studio 2011 and Visual Basic, when you're using VS code '22 and C#)"

"This seems like an XY problem, what are you really trying to accomplish?", after a one thousand word post describing in detail exactly what you are trying to accomplish and the many different reasons why you can't just use #GENERIC_EVERYDAY_METHOD.

Either that or the quick and dirty method that I want for a one off data conversion that uses standard libraries is heavily down voted and lost while the elaborate, all-cases-considered, 7-third-party-library-using answer becomes the top result.

Windows: "All your files are exactly where you left them."

Digg was Reddit, before Reddit came along. And then they tried to monetise it all and pushed out a site layout update that "enhanced" that monetisation aspect (sound familiar?)

Basically they fucked it up right there.

I left Digg in 2010 and never went back, and now the domain and it's remnants are owned by some advertising company.

Flash chip cells are basically tiny electron traps, they consist of a tiny stored charge surrounded on all sides by an insulator. When writing to the cell you fill it with some electrons via (much handwaving here) a method of quantum tunneling. You can then read the cell by sensing the internal charge without disturbing it.

When not in use eventually enough charge tunnels out of the cell via random quantum tunneling events for it to read nothing. This is worsened when things are hotter, so maybe keeping your flash chips in the freezer would help.

Consumer flash memory, I probably wouldn't expect more than 20 or 30 years of offline storage out of it. The older chips would last longer, because their cells are bigger, and you're not trying to read multiple charge levels per cell like the newer stuff.

Added edit:

Magnetic media probably has a higher chance of surviving longer. Floppies from the 80s can still be read, for example, but they are low density media. You'd want something that separates the drive system from the actual magnetic media to stop bearing or motor failure from being an issue , so tape would be a good idea.

The problem is, of course, that you could end up with media you can't read as nobody makes the hardware for it. Tape drives have gone through a dozen revisions in the last 30 years as capacity has increased, but as long as you have the same physical tape cartridge you should be ok.

M-Disc is a blueray compatible media that doesn't use dye and should have a life of hundreds of years. But who will have a blueray reader on hand in the 24th century? I've got a USB M-Disc compatible writer for my backups, but in 30 years will I be able to pull it out of a drawer and plug it into a USB Gen 15 port and have it work with whatever software I have then?

I think we're going to have to do the manual duplication process for a while yet, until we finally settle on some universal petabyte storage crystals or something.

Red Hat 5.0, 1998.

Had to get it on a CD as it would have taken 37.5 years to download according to Internet Explorer.

Kernel 2.0.36 represent 🤘

Every slightly unusual Windows issue that I research ends up at some Microsoft forum where this kind of post happens. Without fail.

I wouldn't consider this to be an on topic post for the "worldnews" or "world" communities. If you cross-post to everywhere, why even have communities?

But posting this to technology, software, AI, communities, no problem.

Yeah elemental mercury ain't that bad. It's all those organic compounds of mercury that are the baddies.

And.... you know, shiny poops that hit the bottom of the bowl with a THUNK , that would be something different. You'd literally lose a few pounds every time you went to the toilet.

Your answer was 501 words, we have uninstalled all browsers except Edge and made Edge your default browser! Enjoy using Edge!

But look how fast we can make those little fuckers go!

It's just like slot car racing, round and round, but.... you know.... faster. And yeah, it's more expensive than a regular slot car track, I guess. But still, those particles will beat any slot car you care to pick! So there's that. Welllll not those fancy slot cars with them high performance motors, I mean, that's a completely different ballgame there, we can't compete with that.

But still, those particles whizzing around, it's gonna be pretty cool. I reckon we should do it.

So anyway, thank you for reading my financial proposal for the SuperLHC.

The US would be able to spend even more on the military if they fixed that.

Maybe someone needs to phrase it like that to their politicians.