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can we make CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and Ultra HD Blu-rays cool again so that pieces of media don't fall into a cultural black hole once streaming services stop carrying them due to tax write-offs or lack of interest. thanks

@hikari optical disks rot so maybe not them

@bob @hikari
Good point
I feel that a Read-only version of SD cards would work perfectly

@AlanyG21 @bob flash memory is probably worse than optical media for long-term storage. decades ago, mask ROMs were a thing, but as it is, Switch carts will probably stop working within our lifetimes

@hikari @AlanyG21 mask rom is still a thing

@bob @hikari @AlanyG21 weren't switch cartridges using it, too?

@bob @hikari @AlanyG21 ah no they're using a type of flash memory it seems

@hikari @bob @AlanyG21 personally I'm still unconvinced this will come down to "not flash" vs "flash" as opposed to "flash or not flash" vs "flash that was fucked up"

@hikari @bob @AlanyG21 'cause like, there are other aging effects in semiconductors too, right? it's not limited to flash, you have to do studies for electromigration too, and at least you can easily dump flash and replace it with something else if you care as an archivist

having to find NOS CPUs is so much worse

@whitequark @bob @AlanyG21 yeah that's fair. for switch carts there's multiple grades of flash, at least two, with lower production runs getting the worse kind apparently

@hikari @whitequark @bob @AlanyG21 the dsi is notorious for having such low flash endurance that they started failing years ago

@hikari @whitequark @bob @AlanyG21 the homebrew community recommends not running anything official or unofficial from the internal storage whenever possible

@hikari @whitequark @bob @AlanyG21 can we not engrave crystals with data for extended storage? We’re gonna need a lot of crystal fast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

@hikari @whitequark @bob @AlanyG21 or nanostructured glass since I didn’t read that far 😅