at this point, frens, the snowball is a'rolling and the seeds are bearing fruit. to everything in its season, every good deal in it's time. God's will be done. (-_-)Why, just look up: "dvd / cd data storage", and BEHOLD the plethora of media articles heralding a New Golden Age for Optical Storage YES...YES, frens, I think it's safe to say we were successful in this campaign AND ALL FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMANITY and METAPOLITICS,and to the obvious detriment of nefarious, corporate Planned Obsolesce! (boooo!!!!)Round of applause and much back pattting.
>>544263361BUT ITS NOT OVER YET!!!We need to keep pushing!DVD readers are still creeping up!From an average of 28 dollars to now 38! or even 45!!!NOT GOOD.(buy now!!, having 13 million discs will avail you NOT if you have zero readers to a'read them with! etc etc)So ...you know...anyhoo:well well well, look who is 'ahead of the curve'... YET AGAIN...tee hee hee.https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-collect-cds/From WIRED, no less! (Aren't you glad you listened to your old fren, 'CD anon'?)https://archive.is/3Uzo8(Amongst many others, a growing topic!)B U R N 2 D I S CYou can pay 20 bucks for a CD, or rent your music from Spotify (boo!) and listen to what everyone else is, not a bad selection, I must say, they had some obscure drill n bass that I was surprised to see (Quinoline Yellow, IDCH, Waqs, Audiotist, WaGaWaGa, etc) but still: **renting, not owning*** and they can yank dat shit at any time and naught you can do but cry hot bitter tears...so, anyways...buy 100 blank CDs for 30 and burn all the music in the world to own forever. Seems a 'no brainer', to me! This used to be commonplace, until the RIAA convinced everyone that Spotify and cloud storage and subscriptions and letting other people decide what you listen to was better. (Planned obsolescence) (see image)Stars of the Lid (relaxing classical drone, better than Eno!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2608573Dead Can Dance (tribal timeless, esp the first 4 releases!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4400522ASOIAF (classic characters, I'm on my 250th re-listen, no joke!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5536103
>>544263361So are BD burners still getting produced?I've seen lots of gloom about how the factories are not producing them anymore and all that's left is stock.
>>544263401>>544263361OTHERS:The Curehttps://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3260091Siouxsiehttps://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2894972Boyd Rice (you wont find HIM on Spotify!)https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2503452Gae Bolghttps://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1439578See also: Seven Pines, if you like this type of thing.Etc.B U R N 2 D I S C <3<3<3Optical Supremacy:- Offline. Yours. Distributed Risk! Shiny. No login, subscription, or cloud landlord.- 3-2-1? More like 30-2-1! Thirty discs, two formats, one smug archivist. (Fine: keep separate copies in separate places.)- AZO DVD-R: a sensible archive staple. General estimates for dye-based recordable media: 20–50 years.- Gold archival DVD-R: estimated 50–100 years under proper storage.- M-DISC DVD: inorganic recording layer; maker claims up to 1,000 years.- Burning tip: use a reliable burner, quality media, and the slowest burn speed the drive supports; verify the finished disc. - Cassette tapes: expensive and bothersome to constantly be fixing snapped tapes. Limited amount of data storage.- Records: glorious for 'rolling tray' with image but heavy, scratch-prone, and every play adds wear. Moving a serious collection is a heroic side quest.- Paltry cons: 4.7 GB per single-layer DVD; needs a drive (DONT FORGET TO STOCK UP! THIS IS YR 'BOTTLENECK'!!!); scratches are rude; you must label the things.- Disc rot? Possible. Inevitable? No. Store cool, dry, dark, and handle by the edges.Do yourself a favor. I had 20 TBs go belly up after one cross-country move. All my back ups of back ups. SSDs *and* HDDs! 20 TBs!*sobs hoarsely*DONT BE ME. Don't lose 10 years of your life! Due to greed and wanting TBs over Longevity.HDDs and SSDs and etc (20TBs was a lot, at the time!)Enjoy good music! Enjoy good films! Enjoy Life?#MetapoliticsHomo Sapiens:https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5299295
>>544263361Good films:https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?pid=11878945Nice pictures:https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?pid=28206814Remember:You can never have enough copies~!!!3-2-1...??300-20-1...!!!Also, remember:Unz ReviewNational ReviewAmerican RenaissanceCounter CurrentsArktos Publishing+Dedalus Books?What a combo that would be! (Think, late Dali!)etc etcBUY LANDRAISE A FAMILYLEARN TO SHOOTGROW YOUR OWNBURN 2 DISCREAD OLD BOOKS...THIS MAY TAKE A WHILE
>>544263440>are BD burners still getting produced?No, it seems BD's are drying up.In fact, thats why I do not mention them: the cost of the burner / reader makes them cost prohibitive.We've got a sliver of opportunity with DVDs, though, seems to me.Stockpile, etc.Its a pita, compared to "instant" access of transfering from HDDs or esp SSDs, but waiting 15 minutes to copy data from agold DVD is a small price to pay, imo, for 20-50 years of pretty much guaranteed data storage? I dunno, 3 - 2 - 1. (But seriously, the more back up copies the better. and you can swap n share with frens in rl!0
>>544263440buy them up now, if you have the money?a) old tech is cool.b) how many years do you need? 20? 50? 100? not sure how long BR's last but gold DVDs will last 100 years, so if you have a dozen DVD readers, you're fairly well placed for the rest of your life, I'm thinking.c) etc
>>544264017I already have one and hundreds of BD-R with "stuff"I'm thinking of getting a second one at the very least but 3 is the golden number (it's actually 7 but I'm poor)
>>544264253I dunno why you said>"stuff"like that. Is kinda creepy. lol, but wanting accessto your files and not just renting them from a cloud landlord is pretty ok basic thing to wat and not devious or whatever, on its own.there seems to be some dumb trope or 'theme' going around that anyone who doesnt conform to society is now considered 'a pedophile', which is just more proof that we're living in a dark age and "80's 2.0", to me.troubling!i have an entire txt file as helper guide that i'll spam here in a secondBUT FIRST:https://open-slum.orggrabbing handsgrab all they canAnd then:## THE PROBLEM- **Nietzsche — nihilism** - Inherited values lose their authority, but no new values feel convincing yet. - The question: *How do I live when the old answers no longer work?*- **Kierkegaard — anxiety, despair, God** - Freedom opens up many possibilities—and the burden of choosing who to become. - Despair can mean being cut off from yourself: refusing or failing to become the person you are.
>>544264728- **Sartre — freedom, the Other, bad faith** - Other people look at us, interpret us, and can reduce us to a role or label. - **Bad faith** is pretending we are only our job, reputation, circumstances, or social identity, so we can avoid facing our freedom to choose.- **R.D. Laing — interpersonal reality and the divided self** - Relationships can make people doubt their own experience and adapt to what others seem to require. - A split can form between the self we experience privately and the self we believe we must present.- **Erving Goffman — social performance** - Everyday life involves roles, audiences, “frontstage” behavior, and more private “backstage” selves. - Performing a role is part of social life; the trouble comes when the performance takes over our sense of who we are.- **Michel Foucault — internalized surveillance** - Power works through institutions, norms, categories, examinations, and judgments. - We can absorb those standards and begin monitoring and correcting ourselves, even when no one is watching.## THE ESCAPE / TRANSFORMATION- **Thoreau — deliberate simplicity and nature** - Not simply “run away from society.” Reduce the unnecessary demands of life so you can see what matters. - *Walden* is an experiment in attention, independence, nature, reading, work, and deliberate living. - His withdrawal is a way to clarify how society works and what a person actually needs—not a demand to disappear forever.- **Emerson — self-reliance** - Treat your own experience and judgment as meaningful sources of knowledge. - Don’t let the crowd’s approval become the final measure of what is true or worthwhile.- **Goethe — cultivation** - Develop your capacities through experience, work, relationships, learning, and mistakes. - Becoming yourself is an ongoing process of growth, not finding a finished identity hidden inside you.
>>544264728- **Kierkegaard — become yourself** - Take personal responsibility for your choices instead of dissolving into the crowd. - Becoming a self means living your commitments inwardly and seriously; for Kierkegaard, this ultimately involves a relationship with God.- **Jung — individuation** - Become more whole by recognizing and integrating parts of yourself you have ignored, hidden, or rejected. - The aim is not to become socially acceptable, but to become less ruled by a narrow public persona.- **Nietzsche — self-overcoming and creation** - Don’t stop at rejecting inherited values; create values and ways of living that you can affirm. - Transform difficulty and limitation into material for growth, expression, and action.- **Oscar Wilde — aesthetic self-creation** - Treat personality, style, taste, conversation, friendship, and beauty as parts of making a life. - Art and aesthetic experience can help us shape how we live, not just decorate life from the outside.- **William James — chosen commitment and religious experience** - Sometimes we must act before certainty is available; our commitments can help make a way of life real. - Religious and mystical experiences matter partly because of how they change a person’s outlook and conduct.- **Martin Buber — genuine encounter** - Meet another person as a whole person, rather than treating them as a role, tool, audience, or obstacle. - Freedom doesn’t have to mean isolation: genuine relationship can help us become more fully ourselves.- **A useful verb sequence** - **Thoreau:** simplify and clarify - **Emerson:** trust your judgment - **Goethe:** cultivate your capacities - **Kierkegaard:** choose and become - **Jung:** integrate - **Nietzsche:** overcome and create - **Wilde:** shape a life aesthetically - **James:** commit and live it - **Buber:** meet others genuinely
>>544264728## THE EXISTENTIAL / HUMANISTIC BRIDGE- **Rollo May — courage, anxiety, and creativity** - Anxiety is part of facing uncertainty and freedom; courage is acting meaningfully despite it. - Creativity is one way people answer the demands of existence.- **Carl Rogers — congruence and conditions of worth** - **Congruence** means greater alignment between what you experience, how you understand yourself, and how you live. - When you have to deny your real feelings or needs to earn acceptance, you can become divided from your experience.- **Abraham Maslow — self-actualization and peak experience** - Human needs include safety and belonging, but also curiosity, creativity, growth, and realizing one’s capacities. - **Self-actualization** means developing what you are capable of becoming; **peak experiences** are moments of heightened engagement, meaning, or connection.- **Erich Fromm — having versus being** - A life organized around possessing, status, and control can crowd out a life organized around activity, connection, and growth. - Fromm asks what it means to *be* fully alive rather than merely to have more.- **Viktor Frankl — meaning** - Meaning can come through what we create, whom we love, and the attitude we take toward unavoidable hardship. - His emphasis is on finding a meaningful response within real circumstances.- **Deci and Ryan — autonomy, competence, and relatedness** - Wellbeing is supported by having meaningful choice, developing skill, and feeling connected to others. - These needs help translate the map’s concerns about freedom and authenticity into everyday life....and lastly:
>>544264728- **Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — flow** - **Flow** is deep absorption in an activity that is challenging but within reach of your abilities. - It offers one picture of flourishing through focused participation, rather than passive comfort or external approval.- **The map’s central question** - How can a person build a meaningful life that fits their experience and values, while staying open to growth, relationship, and the world around them?etc.be well, all kindly ppl.<3
