7 votes

My backup routine (and why I keep it simple)

4 comments

  1. [4]
    PopeRigby
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    Kind of late posting this but I thought it was interesting.

    Kind of late posting this but I thought it was interesting.

    1 vote
    1. [3]
      Algernon_Asimov
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      How is it late? Is there a deadline for talking about back-ups? :)

      How is it late? Is there a deadline for talking about back-ups? :)

      2 votes
      1. [2]
        PopeRigby
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        I mean the video is a week old. I usually see people post stuff right when it pops up, so I thought it might look weird for me to have posted this now.

        I mean the video is a week old. I usually see people post stuff right when it pops up, so I thought it might look weird for me to have posted this now.

        2 votes
        1. Algernon_Asimov
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          News needs to be timely. There's no point posting an article about a cyclone that's about to hit Mozambique... when people have already been cleaning up the damage for a week. ;) But talking about...

          News needs to be timely. There's no point posting an article about a cyclone that's about to hit Mozambique... when people have already been cleaning up the damage for a week. ;)

          But talking about back-ups can happen any time. If you find a video that's 3 months old which talks about something interesting, it's fine to post. Some of the stuff that turns up in ~humanities is years old! Relevant content can still be relevant a week or a month or a year later.

          Tildes isn't about rushing to post content as fast as possible, it's about finding the best content regardless of when it was published.

          5 votes