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The current Linux Mint Cinnamon .iso is 3.1GB in size. It would easily fit
on a microSD card. Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

It wouldn't have to be on the forehead, it could be somewhere more inconspicuous for those worried about appearances.

This way, if your house burned down or there was a catastrophic flood, tornado, etc... and you lost all your belongings, you would still have
Linux Mint.

I have a fully functional Mint image that is only 5.8GB. That could be
put on the microSD card too. I could then fill up the rest of a 2TB card
with important image, files, and music that I enjoy.

This way, as long as I was alive, I would always have a way to restore
Linux Mint and the customizations I have made and all my files and stuff.

Has anyone here ever tried something like this and what was the outcome?
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CtrlAltDel wrote:

The current Linux Mint Cinnamon .iso is 3.1GB in size. It would easily fit
on a microSD card. Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

It wouldn't have to be on the forehead, it could be somewhere more inconspicuous for those worried about appearances.

This way, if your house burned down or there was a catastrophic flood, tornado, etc... and you lost all your belongings, you would still have
Linux Mint.

I have a fully functional Mint image that is only 5.8GB. That could be
put on the microSD card too. I could then fill up the rest of a 2TB card with important image, files, and music that I enjoy.

This way, as long as I was alive, I would always have a way to restore
Linux Mint and the customizations I have made and all my files and stuff.

Has anyone here ever tried something like this and what was the outcome?

that's taking your devotion to LM to a whole new level, lol!-a :)
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 10:46:32 +1000, Axel wrote:

that's taking your devotion to LM to a whole new level, lol!-a :)

EfyCN+A The only problem would be the continual need to update. To insert the chip would only require a small incision but, to do it over and over again each time Mint was updated would get tedious.

I'm thinking of covering the metal contacts with a thin layer of wax of
some type to prevent them from corroding. Hopefully the wax would then
just peel off in one piece so it could easily be replaced.

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Le 06/08/2026 |a 01:06, CtrlAltDel a |-crit-a:

The current Linux Mint Cinnamon .iso is 3.1GB in size. It would easily fit
on a microSD card. Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

It wouldn't have to be on the forehead, it could be somewhere more inconspicuous for those worried about appearances.

This way, if your house burned down or there was a catastrophic flood, tornado, etc... and you lost all your belongings, you would still have
Linux Mint.

I have a fully functional Mint image that is only 5.8GB. That could be
put on the microSD card too. I could then fill up the rest of a 2TB card with important image, files, and music that I enjoy.

This way, as long as I was alive, I would always have a way to restore
Linux Mint and the customizations I have made and all my files and stuff.

Has anyone here ever tried something like this and what was the outcome?

we are testing Linux Nervous. Nervous have a update each day, because it
can to be connected with all computers of TOP 500. sometimes we have
some probl|?me with us servers or chinia servers...nevers with russian
servers because...it not existe ! i have Nervous 0608.
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Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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On Wed, 8/5/2026 7:06 PM, CtrlAltDel wrote:

The current Linux Mint Cinnamon .iso is 3.1GB in size. It would easily fit on a microSD card. Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

It wouldn't have to be on the forehead, it could be somewhere more inconspicuous for those worried about appearances.

This way, if your house burned down or there was a catastrophic flood, tornado, etc... and you lost all your belongings, you would still have
Linux Mint.

I have a fully functional Mint image that is only 5.8GB. That could be
put on the microSD card too. I could then fill up the rest of a 2TB card with important image, files, and music that I enjoy.

This way, as long as I was alive, I would always have a way to restore
Linux Mint and the customizations I have made and all my files and stuff.

Has anyone here ever tried something like this and what was the outcome?

Since you've decided your skull cavity would be
a fun place, here's an example.

For certain kinds of epilepsy, medication might not be enough
to control it (the person can be having several seizures per day
even on medication), so they put electronics near your brainy bits.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/deep-brain-stimulation/about/pac-20384562

I expect today, a list of all the implant types, would be quite lengthy.
And I've only heard of a fraction of them.

People have put NFC implants in their fingers, and that's
an example of an item that does not need its own power pack.

For power, some devices use an external inductive charger,
every couple days, to "fill them up again".

Working on wetware, and not making mistakes, takes
definite skills. You would not want to end up pictured
in some medical journal, of "a thing not to do" :-)
I'm sure Frankenstein's Monster wasn't happy about
all the photography.

Paul
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 02:28:46 -0400, Paul wrote:

Since you've decided your skull cavity would be a fun place, here's an example.

For certain kinds of epilepsy, medication might not be enough to control
it (the person can be having several seizures per day even on
medication), so they put electronics near your brainy bits.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/deep-brain-stimulation/

about/pac-20384562

I expect today, a list of all the implant types, would be quite lengthy.
And I've only heard of a fraction of them.

People have put NFC implants in their fingers, and that's an example of
an item that does not need its own power pack.

For power, some devices use an external inductive charger,
every couple days, to "fill them up again".

Working on wetware, and not making mistakes, takes definite skills. You
would not want to end up pictured in some medical journal, of "a thing
not to do" :-)
I'm sure Frankenstein's Monster wasn't happy about all the photography.

Thanks, Paul. You believing this is doable and may be a good idea is
certainly reassuring to me. I'll probably wait for Mint 23 to arrive
anyway and this will also give me more time to research this step I'm contemplating.

I've pretty much decided my forehead was probably a bad idea and am
thinking more of my neck now, since there is more meat to embed the chip
in there.

Don't worry about me going on a medical journey. I live in Alabama, in the United States, and there are only just a few hospitals in the entire
state. Alabamians don't believe in doctors and medical care and that type
of stuff too much; it's for sissies and the weak.



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Le 06/08/2026 |a 08:28, Paul a |-crit-a:

For certain kinds of epilepsy, medication might not be enough
to control it (the person can be having several seizures per day
even on medication), so they put electronics near your brainy bits.

Paul

sure ! when we read some vegetables here...
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 23:06:44 -0000 (UTC), CtrlAltDel wrote:

The current Linux Mint Cinnamon .iso is 3.1GB in size. It would easily fit on a microSD card. Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

It wouldn't have to be on the forehead, it could be somewhere more inconspicuous for those worried about appearances.

This way, if your house burned down or there was a catastrophic flood, tornado, etc... and you lost all your belongings, you would still have
Linux Mint.

I have a fully functional Mint image that is only 5.8GB. That could be
put on the microSD card too. I could then fill up the rest of a 2TB card with important image, files, and music that I enjoy.

This way, as long as I was alive, I would always have a way to restore
Linux Mint and the customizations I have made and all my files and stuff.

Has anyone here ever tried something like this and what was the outcome?

I tried swallowing a microSD with LM, but it just came out the natural
way.
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On Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:15:01 +0200, s|b wrote:

I tried swallowing a microSD with LM, but it just came out the natural
way.

The fecal matter and stomach acids probably ruined it too. My experiment
will have no such obstacles.

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CtrlAltDel wrote:

Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

That sounds partly whimsical and partly deranged.
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 14:02:03 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to maybe insert a
microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

That sounds partly whimsical and partly deranged.

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as long as
the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything destroying your back-ups, short of bodily injury to the area where one has
the chip installed.

Could I become financially independent with a disposable income from
making this work, even a billionaire? Sure. But money isn't the
motivation; the motivation is to improve the computing experience for everyone.

Eternal fame and adulation would be nice and I could likely achieve this
with this idea but, it's really not about just that.
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On Thu, 8/6/2026 5:02 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to
maybe insert a microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

That sounds partly whimsical and partly deranged.

Something in the form-factor of a wrist watch would
be more practical. You'd have to decide what other
circuits to include with it.

Paul
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Paul wrote:

Something in the form-factor of a wrist watch would
be more practical. You'd have to decide what other
circuits to include with it.

I recently met a fellow who had had bilateral cochlear implants after
in-ear hearing aids didn't get it anymore.

There were devices implanted under his skull (auditory nerve)
bilaterally, they communicated with devices attached to his external
scalp magnetically which external scalp devices were wired to a small
in-ear device.

Also, he was very happy that the 'apparatus' was also BT bluetooth
compatible so that using his phone was easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#/media/File:Blausen_0244_CochlearImplant_01.png
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 17:24:45 -0400, Paul wrote:

On Thu, 8/6/2026 5:02 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

Has anyone ever tried, or would it be possible, to maybe insert a
microSD card with the Mint .iso on it into your body?

That sounds partly whimsical and partly deranged.

Something in the form-factor of a wrist watch would be more practical.
You'd have to decide what other circuits to include with it.

Paul

External wrist watch adaptation? That would defeat the purpose of the
idea.

This is all pretty exciting. 30 years from now, people will be looking up this thread to see where it all began like people search for the post
where Torvalds first mentioned Linux in comp.os.minix.
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CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as long as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would be
feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as long
as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything
destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you from
accessing cloud storage.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get online
for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on the
Internet, ever.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you don't
have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many reasons
that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of storage options.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.
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CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would be
feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as long
as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything
destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you from
accessing cloud storage.

Just like any number of scenarios that could occur that rendered the
chip in your forehead unreadable. Same thing.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get online for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on the
Internet, ever.

This is very hard to imagine in this day and age. You must be thinking
about a serious apocalyptic or dystopian event. In that case I'm not
sure that "getting your photos back" would be very high on someone's
priority list. Survival or getting food might be more important then.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you don't
have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many reasons that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of storage options.

It isn't. But a chip on/in your body isn't either.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.
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On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 13:21:05 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would
be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as
long as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything
destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link
ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you
from accessing cloud storage.

Just like any number of scenarios that could occur that rendered the
chip in your forehead unreadable. Same thing.

There may be a few kinks to work out, but I'm sure I can solve them as
they do.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get
online for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on
the Internet, ever.

This is very hard to imagine in this day and age. You must be thinking
about a serious apocalyptic or dystopian event. In that case I'm not
sure that "getting your photos back" would be very high on someone's
priority list. Survival or getting food might be more important then.

Let's say the imps attack the infrastructure. An imp attack could shut everything down, but I will still have photos of grandma and grandpa and
the family pets and stuff. I mean, an imp could attack right now, while
I'm typing this response, before I even have time to hit the send button.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you don't
have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many
reasons that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of
storage options.

It isn't. But a chip on/in your body isn't either.

It's better than trusting others with your information. People you don't
even know can easily disappoint you when the chips are down. When the
chips are up, like now, everything is fine and seems rosy. Let the chips
be down though and see how many of these corporations care about your
data.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

Think of chip insertion into your body as your own personal cloud that you have total control over.

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 13:21:05 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would
be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as >>>> long as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything >>>> destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link
ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you
from accessing cloud storage.

Just like any number of scenarios that could occur that rendered the
chip in your forehead unreadable. Same thing.

There may be a few kinks to work out, but I'm sure I can solve them as
they do.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get
online for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on
the Internet, ever.

This is very hard to imagine in this day and age. You must be thinking about a serious apocalyptic or dystopian event. In that case I'm not
sure that "getting your photos back" would be very high on someone's priority list. Survival or getting food might be more important then.

Let's say the imps attack the infrastructure. An imp attack could shut everything down, but I will still have photos of grandma and grandpa and
the family pets and stuff. I mean, an imp could attack right now, while
I'm typing this response, before I even have time to hit the send button.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you don't
have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many
reasons that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of
storage options.

It isn't. But a chip on/in your body isn't either.

It's better than trusting others with your information. People you don't even know can easily disappoint you when the chips are down. When the
chips are up, like now, everything is fine and seems rosy. Let the chips
be down though and see how many of these corporations care about your
data.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

With good reason.

https://www.techdirt.com/2012/04/02/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-legitimate-files-he-uploaded-to-megaupload/

Sorry, couldn;t make it a hyperlink.

Regards, Alan

Think of chip insertion into your body as your own personal cloud that you have total control over.

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pinnerite wrote:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> wrote:

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

With good reason.

https://www.techdirt.com/2012/04/02/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-legitimate-files-he-uploaded-to-megaupload/

That's not even the worst of it. What happens if Microsofts algorithms
("now with AI!") suddenly decide there's something suspicious about the
stuff you have on OneDrive and decide to block your account? Say goodbye
to everything you have in the cloud. This happened to a user in Holland
a few years ago and there's probably many more worldwide. The user could
not get through to Microsoft, never had any reply to his e-mails, never
got any explanation whatsoever and the account remained totally
unaccessible. True story.

Now if I'm not mistaken, the EU is looking into this and is drafting a
law to prevent these scenarios from happening in the future. Or maybe
the law is already in place, I don't really know. I certainly hope so.

Sorry, couldn;t make it a hyperlink.

It turned into a hyperlink fine in Seamonkey, I could click it without
any problem.
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pinnerite wrote:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 13:21:05 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would >>>>>> be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it should, as >>>>>> long as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or anything >>>>>> destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link
ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you
from accessing cloud storage.

Just like any number of scenarios that could occur that rendered the
chip in your forehead unreadable. Same thing.

There may be a few kinks to work out, but I'm sure I can solve them as
they do.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get
online for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on
the Internet, ever.

This is very hard to imagine in this day and age. You must be thinking
about a serious apocalyptic or dystopian event. In that case I'm not
sure that "getting your photos back" would be very high on someone's
priority list. Survival or getting food might be more important then.

Let's say the imps attack the infrastructure. An imp attack could shut
everything down, but I will still have photos of grandma and grandpa and
the family pets and stuff. I mean, an imp could attack right now, while
I'm typing this response, before I even have time to hit the send button.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you don't >>>> have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many
reasons that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of
storage options.

It isn't. But a chip on/in your body isn't either.

It's better than trusting others with your information. People you don't
even know can easily disappoint you when the chips are down. When the
chips are up, like now, everything is fine and seems rosy. Let the chips
be down though and see how many of these corporations care about your
data.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

With good reason.

https://www.techdirt.com/2012/04/02/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-legitimate-files-he-uploaded-to-megaupload/

Sorry, couldn;t make it a hyperlink.

it's a hyperlink in my reader (Thunderbird). but afaik to make a
hyperlink just use arrows, put <-a infront of the link and-a > behind it.
but watch out for the Indians!

Regards, Alan

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Axel wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 13:21:05 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

CtrlAltDel wrote:

It's an attempt to find a true fail-safe backup solution that would >>>>>>> be feasible for anyone, not just me. If this works like it
should, as
long as the person doing this is okay, the backup is okay.

No more worries about catastrophic weather events or fire or
anything
destroying your back-ups,

Isn't that why they invented cloud solutions?

Any data that you don't have physical access to is the weakest link
ever dreamed up. Any number of scenarios could occur to prevent you
from accessing cloud storage.

Just like any number of scenarios that could occur that rendered the
chip in your forehead unreadable. Same thing.

There may be a few kinks to work out, but I'm sure I can solve them as
they do.

Just for discussion purposes, let's say you lose the ability to get
online for some reason or the other, maybe you can never get back on >>>>> the Internet, ever.

This is very hard to imagine in this day and age. You must be thinking >>>> about a serious apocalyptic or dystopian event. In that case I'm not
sure that "getting your photos back" would be very high on someone's
priority list. Survival or getting food might be more important then.

Let's say the imps attack the infrastructure. An imp attack could shut
everything down, but I will still have photos of grandma and grandpa
and
the family pets and stuff. I mean, an imp could attack right now, while
I'm typing this response, before I even have time to hit the send
button.

How are you going to get your precious family photos back if you
don't
have assistance from someone else? That is just one of many, many
reasons that cloud storage is not the ultimate end all/be all of
storage options.

It isn't. But a chip on/in your body isn't either.

It's better than trusting others with your information. People you
don't
even know can easily disappoint you when the chips are down. When the
chips are up, like now, everything is fine and seems rosy. Let the
chips
be down though and see how many of these corporations care about your
data.

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

With good reason.

https://www.techdirt.com/2012/04/02/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-legitimate-files-he-uploaded-to-megaupload/


Sorry, couldn;t make it a hyperlink.

it's a hyperlink in my reader (Thunderbird).

Ooops! my bad. Seamonkey

but afaik to make a hyperlink just use arrows, put <-a infront of the
link and-a > behind it. but watch out for the Indians!

Regards, Alan

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Monsieur wrote:

pinnerite wrote:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:07:40 -0000 (UTC)
CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> wrote:

Trusting anything that is valuable to you to Amazon or Microsoft or
Google, etc... is folly.

Agreed. I am very much anti-cloud myself.

With good reason.

https://www.techdirt.com/2012/04/02/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-legitimate-files-he-uploaded-to-megaupload/

That's not even the worst of it. What happens if Microsofts algorithms
("now with AI!") suddenly decide there's something suspicious about
the stuff you have on OneDrive and decide to block your account? Say
goodbye to everything you have in the cloud. This happened to a user
in Holland a few years ago and there's probably many more worldwide.
The user could not get through to Microsoft, never had any reply to
his e-mails, never got any explanation whatsoever and the account
remained totally unaccessible. True story.

Now if I'm not mistaken, the EU is looking into this and is drafting a
law to prevent these scenarios from happening in the future. Or maybe
the law is already in place, I don't really know. I certainly hope so.

I have all my files on mechanical Hard Drives, nothing in 'the cloud'

Sorry, couldn;t make it a hyperlink.

It turned into a hyperlink fine in Seamonkey, I could click it without
any problem.

same here
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:06:58 +1000, Axel wrote:

I have all my files on mechanical Hard Drives, nothing in 'the cloud'

But you're using those hard drives on a device that has access to the
Internet? Is the data encrypted?
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