Ultimately Email is old technology, all the web frontends just get in the way more or less.

I use an email host that has roadmapped switching their frontend to one I don’t really like, so figured I’d get ahead of the curve and switch to a client that was open source and compatible with the typical standards — so I could learn it and never have to deal with another client again.

Ended up using Thunderbird, even for my old inboxes at the typical web companies

One client, all my emails in one spot, don’t have to deal with stupid UX changes being forced on users.

Not a fan of this model broadly. It discourages diverse membership and promotes cliques.

I thought LG was still manufacturing burners?

Saying that though, the price of those is like $200+ now apparently, which is crazy since I have two I originally got for about $80.

My issue with tape is ultimately the cost of drives, most of the time you’re just as well of buying an actual library device.

Plus managing the tape contents seems difficult.

If HDD prices ever go back down I’ll probably have to just make a NAS storage appliance.

Few manufacturers of burnable BD media these days. Sony left the market uh, I think last year.

Verbatim has said they’ll continue making them, as far as I can tell they’re the only company doing BDXLs — some are doing single layer.

For WORM backup media Blu-Ray is basically what we’ve got, and it’s concerning basically only one company is making it. Pioneer also left the player market so the quality of reading/writing devices is also getting questionable.