Anantech was the high watermark in tech journalism and the only place I'd go to look at in-depth (sometimes beyond belief) reviews of Apple hardware test results not found anywhere else on the web. Page after page after page of detailed tests and results.
Hard to imagine that type of content being lucrative from a display-ad point of view if they used traditional ad networks, but the effort was absolutely appreciated and respected by readers.
A sad day but considering how the online ad market has tried to force publishers to focus on video content an understandable one for printed-word journalists. It's awful.
This is true, and I second your sadness. They always had those 1/2/3 pages more than competitors about architecture details at the start of every review.
But apparently right now it pays more to do a cheap video review on YouTube with fake benchmarks, you get the hundred thousands video views, sell the hardware and call it a day.
I bought one of these years ago when my 2015 Macbook Pro was still my primary computer, which I used until the M1 Max was released. However, the thing sat on a shelf unused. I still have DVDs and CD-ROMs in the house with what I consider to be important data/files, or movies you simply can't stream, but life always got in the way.
Last weekend, with the wife away on a trip, I pulled a DVD I'd been given last year after the death of a relative. It was filled with movie files an uncle had recorded when he'd visited during the birth of my first child 17 years ago. Since the SuperDrive is USB-A, I pulled out my old 2015 MBP (still a great machine) and popped in the disk. After a few moments I was looking at AVI clips that felt as if I had stepped through time. Seeing relatives now gone, other relatives so young - all of us were. And my daughter, just a couple days old looking like a sleeping grub worm in a blanket.
After that experience I moved everything to cloud storage and started looking for more discs. Makes me think I should get a Mac Mini and use the SuperDrive as an old-school video/audio media machine.
Yes, very true. Although if you go this route you’d better look at the specs closely. Amazon is filled with drives that run USB 2.0 speeds over a USB-C cable.
If the dvd/cds you burned have any important data, best to pull that off, because those discs degrade over time, and fairly quickly than you may expect. Get a good usb drive and put that in a firesafe.
Mechanical HDDs are far more shock sensitive. One good drop and the bits are physically damaged by the head hitting the platter.
If you move often perhaps USB SSDs are better. A little more rugged and accessible, with occasional power as the trade-off.
The cell powering is overstated. I just wouldn't expect to go a really long time on your only drive. Have many/play the odds. Reading the data occasionally to verify sums would suffice to recharge. So could appending to the archive!
Tape is great for density and shock sensitivity, but doesn't handle magnetism or moisture as well. Random access is awful, so recovering from this may be as well. This really shines in terms of density.
All this to say, I wouldn't store data I cared about in a hard to access or irregular place.
Not all the same place, but readily accessible such that restoring, maintenance, or establishing quorum is feasible. A safe deposit box sounds nice, is wildly impractical.
The houses of friends or family are just as effective, or misc. S3 providers. Many is best, in short. Not just one.
I've had flash drives go bad after months or even weeks so I'm dubious about your ten years claim. Probably depends on the type of flash chip, quality, etc but still overall worse than the alternatives.
I'll be riding my bike in a designated a bike lane (which is sometimes shared with pedestrians, dogs, etc.) with clearly marked speed limit signs of 15mph. That's plenty fast in general, but even more so in busy spots. And suddenly a near-silent e-bike will go flying past me (no "On your left," by the way) at speeds close to 30mph. Happens all of the time and is bafflingly reckless and arrogant.
The way folks ride class 3 e-bikes they really should be treated as mopeds: put them on the roads like other motorized vehicles and licensed and (hopefully) forced to obey the rules of the road. Just my opinion, but they seem to break the spirit of being in the bike lane. The touristy day-cruiser eBikes like Lime bikes are fine.
Legally, in many places they are mopeds. The problem is that there is no way to enforce the law because they look like e-bikes. It takes checking model numbers of bike or components. Throttle is relatively easy to notice.
I love this. Her little site really takes me back to the age of the internet I often miss.
Back in the 90s, fresh out of art school I knew I needed to create a portfolio website of some sort. I went to a Borders Books and got a book about 4 or 5 inches think about HTML and how to craft a site using a tool built into Netscape Navigator. Over the course of a week or so I created a site very similar in function to the one in the OP. The main difference was the content.
On my homepage I featured one of my drawings - a color pencil rendering of a very large/wide man in a jock strap looking at the viewer with a cunning smile. Yes, I was very mature. You had click on his belly to enter the site. This was where I learned to make an image map for the first time. When you clicked it he said, "Ooh, that tickles" and then you were in where the portfolio and navigation was presented.
It was all HTML 4, no javascript, no cookies or forms - all very basic stuff.
And that site got me my first real job in the design world (at an Adobe competitor called Micrografx, which later imploded). The rest is history! Thanks, Netscape.
Is this based in Texas? As in, was this named after Ladybird Johnson? Having lived in Texas almost half my life, and having thought of Mrs. Johnson every time the wildflowers bloom alongside the highways, I have to wonder...
