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I've heard there's some sort of ambient environmental effect that degrades optical discs. I can't remember what the effect is - oxidation? UV? It's whatever.
But as I recall it is part of the reason that tape devices are still used for serious backups.
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Disc rot - Wikipedia
Quote: Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together.
The major source of ultra-violet in most people's environment is the Sun, so whether the damage is caused by heat (warping the CD/DVD) or by ultra-violet is probably a moot point. I have some 20+ year old CDs, properly stored, that are still perfectly readable. I expect that my DVD reader will die before these CDs will.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thanx Dan, you answered my question. I sort of suspected such, but was not sure.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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WOO HOO finally I can do a backup of my entire home network on a single disk!!!!
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I did that in the late 1980s, when I got my first CD burner!
(My entire home network consisted of a single PC in those days, but that was the normal situation.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I wouldn't dare try these days 
My NAS on it's own would toast a couple of cases of media.
It holds about 12tb of storage, if which about 8 is used.
Then there's the server with about 50 ish 30th BUs running .....
Scares me just thinking about it.
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That should be enough to backup all my personal data, my photos in the cloud and my precious ('ahem') multi-arcade machine research data... 
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I still don't know how to boot this NXP evaluation board off of SD but I can now happily use the generous SDRAM, plus any of the SRAM banks I like for my program code and/or data. No more issues like earlier. I don't even need the SDRAM anymore because I separated everything out into the SRAM partitions. Organization! woo
I'm working on getting the LVGL benchmark to run 5 separate instances on 5 separate screens. It's not easy because it's C, and so everything is static, global, and hopelessly procedural. Porting that code to exist in multiple instances is a bit of a bear, particularly since I don't understand it yet.
Oh well. I'll figure it out. I contribute to LVGL, how hard can it be?
BUT BUT BUT
I was getting blazing framerates this time around. Last time I was happy to get 16-19. Now I'm getting 45. Sometimes a lot more. (sometimes less if I bog the CPU), but I haven't tried across all 5 displays. I imagine I'll lose plenty of frames because the CPU is going to be tied up, but if I can get the I/O to be async like before it should perform well enough for what we need.
I'm convinced that this mix had something to do with my successes.
clippy vs the black hole - [Atmospheric Drum and Bass Mix] - YouTube[^]
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modified 10-Mar-24 21:59pm.
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(please note, this is marked as RANT!!)
Been trying to help wife reset password for her ms account.
It's ridiculous! She is signed in on her laptop. She is signed in to her outlook account, but we can't change the password, because we don't know the old one.
So, we ask MS to send her a code to her back up email account -- which I cannot find listed in her account anywhere (and that's just another part of this horrendous story).
MS Expires Code Before You Can Get It
We can log into that backup email account and receive the code, but by the time the code gets there MS has expired the code and says we have to send a new one.
Also, I actually tested the backup email account by sending other email to and from it and it is not that the back up email account is getting stuff slow, it is actually that MS is sending the code slowly.
But, It Gets Worse
Well, they finally sent 5 codes all at once and we got them and luckily the last one worked.
We got into her account. So I went to reset her password, but you need to know the old one.
Ok, they have a "forgot password" option there too and they said they would send a code.
So I went through the form and said send the code, but then MS said, "Oh, you've received too many codes today so try again tomorrow." To which I say WTF?!!!!
Here's The Topper
Now I will make fun of even more of this terrible terrible process.
Check out this form (snapshot)[^] and really read what it says.
It has many errors and problematic things.
Note: I had to alter the real characters and email address so I wouldn't give anything away, but the rest of the form is exactly as MS provides it.
And that black vertical line is representing the flashing cursor that you see where you are supposed to type on the line.
All The Errors and Confusions of That Form
The form says (my emphasis),
"To verify that this is your email address, complete the hidden part and click "Send code" to receive your code."
Let's say the email address is :
rkHIDDENLETTERS@fake.com
What do you think you need to type on that line?
They say, "complete the hidden part" which to me means, type the "hidden part".
I think you're supposed to type:
HIDDENLETTERS
But that is not correct!!!
You have to type rkHIDDENLETTERS@fake.com
Makes no freaking sense at all.
And, Another Thing
There is no "Send code" button.
There is a "Get code" button. 
Oy!!!
Well, I had time to create this rant, because I'm waiting until "tomorrow" to see if they'll send me another code.
By The Way, When's Tomorrow?
"Does anyone really know what time it is?" (ala Chicago)
I wonder if "tomorrow" is 12:01am in my time zone or the server's time zone? Or is "tomorrow", 24 hours later? Is it 24 hours later than my last request which was considered too many requests?
Thank you, for feeling my pain, it helps me cope.
EDIT : NEW DISCOVERY
If I attempt to log into her account via microsoft.com it automatically sends a code to the backup email. I get the code instantly and can log into her microsoft account.
But, then if I try to reset the password. Then it says, "Wait 24 hours".
modified 10-Mar-24 19:43pm.
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When i got my new notebook in Dec the problem with "MS has expired the code" happened to me too.
When MS servers are busy this happens again and again.
You can only wait until all old emails arrived and try it some hours later - early in the morning best case.
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Thanks very much for reading my rant and letting me know that I'm not alone in this.
I really appreciate it. 
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There's few things I quickly lose patience with these days as password resets. Of course, I have countless friends/family who come to me when they need to do so, and I always ask them - what have you tried so far? And the answer is always, oh, I didn't even dare touch it.
Gee, thanks, in other words, you come to me potentially wasting my time doing something you probably should have been able to do yourself. If you can't figure it out, that's one thing, I'll be happy to help then, but if you can't even bother to try first...?
I have a relative, specifically, who somehow kept "losing" his Facebook password--repeatedly. At one point I just told him it's unrecoverable, you'll have to create a new account from scratch.
I think he was up to account #7 before he gave up Facebook. (So, a win, for himself and the rest of humanity?)
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dandy72 wrote: At one point I just told him it's unrecoverable, you'll have to create a new account from scratch.
My situation is getting worse.
I can sign into her account but the only way it works is that when I attempt to sign in it sends me a code to her backup mail. Next I put the code in and I'm signed into the account.
However, when I try to reset the password it says, "Oh, I've already sent you too many codes and you'll have to wait til tomorrow." Even though it is now another day and it only sent me one code today.
I'm thinking that is just a "put off" answer and it is never going to send me a code to reset the password. I just can't tell. It's absolutely crazy.
but once you give up, apathy kicks in and you don't care any more anyways. So I'm just waiting for apathy. 
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Commiserating 1 2 3. Beer is the answer! To every question π
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Beer... the cause of and the solution to all our problems.
-- Homer Simpson
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Gives me an excuse to order a pizza.
(I make my own beer, latest batch is stout).
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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