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Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • This is a very, very bad idea.

    SSDs are permanent flash storage, yes, but that doesn’t mean you can leave them unpowered for extended periods of time.

    Without a refresh, electrons can and do leak out of the charge traps that store the ones and zeroes. Depending on the exact NAND used, the data could start going corrupt within a year or so.

    HDDs suffer the same problem, though less so. They can go several years, possibly a decade, but you’d still be risking the data on the drive but letting it sit unpowered for an extended time.

    For the “cold storage” approach you should really be using something that’s designed to retain data in such conditions, like optical media, or tape drives.






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    !liminalspace@lemmy.world

    Edit: noticed you DID post there, I thought you didn’t because thunder didn’t list any cross-posts.

    If you re-use the same image link in any additonal posts, or use the cross-post feature, lemmy will link your posts up so people can navigate across their comment sections in apps that support it, like thunder.

    If you want, you can still edit one post to use the image link from the other.





  • So how would you age them up?

    People who aren’t familiar with the artstyle misread the ages because they try to apply their intuition, which is based on the way actual people look.

    Which doesn’t work, because until the character being drawn is someone “old”, age-indicating details on the face are omitted.

    They look young because the eyes are big and skin-detail level is low, but it’s not that they’re drawn to look young, it’s that a lot of facial detail is just not drawn in anime.

    Once you add even a little bit of those age-indicating details you quickly land in the territory of how the elderly are drawn.

    There isn’t much of an in-between.

    It does exist, but you kind of have to see enough anime/manga to start somewhat “accurately” guessing the age of characters based on how they look. Even then it varies between artists, so a character that looks 20 within the context of one series would be a child in another, or vice versa.

    The age is 100% in the size of the head relative to the body, and in the size of the eyes, relative to the size of the head. But it’s completely relative. The ratios that indicates a given age is completely up to the artist so it varies wildly from series to series.






  • That’s not really how the comments on alternativeto work. They are relative.

    If you got to spotifys page, it will list similar services, each with their own comments, and the comments under youtube music, for example, will be about how it compares to spotify.

    So, to leave useful comments, you only have to know how a given piece of software compares to what you used before. You don’t comment on how a given thing compares to everything else, only to one thing at a time.

    Then, as other people browse the alternatives, they can use those individual comparisons to navigate their way to what they need. Stuff like “this can’t replace that for this use-case, because reason, but it does this other stuff” is extremely useful when looking for something that does what you’re looking for.