Post AVqHEnYo8dmisDb1TE by icedquinn@blob.cat
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 (DIR) Post #AVqA043fon841A3ov2 by nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
       2023-05-14T19:22:07Z
       
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       Here's some more scary things to think about.Most of the devices that have at least a blinking LED and were manufactured in the last 15-20 years are about to start breaking down. That's because most microcontrollers and FPGAs manufactured since 00s are using memory types that guaranteed to live only for 5-20 years.In the days long gone, mass-manufactured devices with digital logic tended to use mask ROMs or antifuse ROMs. That made the devices cheap, and the data stored to boot them could last almost forever.But erasable programmable ROMs, and later Flash, became cheaper and more popular. They have benefits of being (somewhat) re-programmable, unified, easy to use, and so on. The data retention for Flash-based devices (reprogrammable FPGAs and microcontrollers) is ±5 years. Those that use EPROM (pretending to be one-time programmable ROM) can last for 10-20 years.Alternatives exist, but rare.How do I sleep now?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVqA05DzTuyZdRtZdg by nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
       2023-05-14T19:23:36Z
       
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       Naturally, it means Switch cartridges won't last over 20 years.** Correction: they are rated for 20 years at 85C. So, they should last more, in theory
       
 (DIR) Post #AVqADiv7CoYWVtZRfk by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
       2023-05-20T08:17:22.776727Z
       
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       Copy the roms? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #AVqHEnYo8dmisDb1TE by icedquinn@blob.cat
       2023-05-20T09:36:02.270877Z
       
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       @nina_kali_nina probably start by not giving money to companies that use proprietary mediums for no good reasons, put anti-tampers in devices you supposedly own, and so on.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVqTFCXWSt3tnMxBbs by rees@breastmilk.club
       2023-05-20T08:30:53.445373Z
       
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       @Humpleupagus @nina_kali_nina there's a few games that haven't been uploaded that'll be lost, not that important tbh though. I'm still seething over the event horizon salt mines shit
       
 (DIR) Post #AVqTUKkkD6ytc0LzRg by Whitewall_Blasphemy@poa.st
       2023-05-20T11:53:19.496336Z
       
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       @Humpleupagus @nina_kali_nina imagine the lone repository of unspecified 1kb to 2+mb roms stored on a lone 1 TB HDD or SSD ...only to get grenaded by some knee-grow looter in the coming 3rd worlding years...