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No, it's just worn out by being exposed to the elements for a long time.

Thanks!

Tape is rated to a 30-year shelf life under ideal conditions.

Good luck when SSDs are less reliable when powered off than HDDs, and still pricier for huge capacities.

I was actually using an FD lens adapted to a Micro 4/3 camera at the time, a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 lens to be exact, and was new to running manual glass then, I just thought it was a cute shot.

Prior to getting my first ILC, an Olympus E-M5, which sadly has since died of a stuck shutter, I was using a cheap Cybershot (which I put back into service as a backup and I'm presently using it until I can get the sensor for the E-M5's replacement, a Panasonic GF2, cleaned).

And to be fair, that cheap Cybershot, an H300, really isn't that bad for what it is other than the fact that it's fully autofocus and it doesn't support shooting in raw formats and is limited to JPEGs only.

This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.

At least you can still use your older hardware, and at least Radeon cards as old as GCN1 are still actively supported outside of Windows.

Also, old games still exist and will continue to exist in some form into the foreseeable future, legitimately or not.

Like, if you're not into multiplayer games, the Mesa drivers last time I thought still work well, great even, on Polaris and Vega cards as well as even legacy GCN on the Linux side of things, you can still use your RX 580 or 590 with full support going that route, for example.

You got Fooyin as a viable, and even really good, open alternative to Foobar2k.

Element's still Electron-based for the desktop app, given Electron is Chromium and Google has the final say over Chromium, that doesn't make it trustworthy at least in my opinion and I'm sure others' opinions too.

You can always build a PC and not have to deal with that UEFI signing stuff as you're expected to provide your own OS still, that option hasn't been eliminated yet.

Also, AMD cards are more friendly to Linux users than Nvidia cards are, even with the existence of NVK for the latter; NVK only supports Turing and newer cards and Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta are too old for it, and since Nouveau is broken on Maxwell and newer by firmware signing, once those cards lose support in the proprietary drivers, unless NVK gets backported to them somehow, you'll be SOL in the near future for 900-series, 10-series, and the Titan V, while Kepler and older is still supported by Nouveau, meanwhile over at AMD, Mesa actively supports Radeon cards going back to GCN1.

Basically, if you still have an R9 Fury or an RX 580 sitting around, for example, those cards will still be actively supported by Mesa open drivers for the foreseeable future, meanwhile your GTX 980Ti or 1080Ti, at least currently, are fully at the mercy of Nvidia's closed drivers.

Carter was a pretty good person, at least post-Presidency, can't really speak on how he was in the White House though.

Reagan, otoh, was irredeemable all the way through, given while he was in the White House, that guy effectively destroyed the middle class, created the current disaster that is unaffordable post-secondary education, and created the current credit score system among other atrocities, not to mention that whole Contra business.

Yes, really, if it weren't for Reagan, there wouldn't be a massive and progressively-widening gap between the bottom and top of society, it would still be possible to get affordably educated, and people wouldn't be getting completely screwed by bad credit.

For a perfect foil of everything the US has stood for for at least the last four decades, look at most of the EU having universal healthcare, having an actually regulated education sector where for-profit grift schools like University of Phoenix or even the late ITT Tech or EDMC and its subsidiaries, wouldn't have ever been allowed to take root to begin with.

And so far LibreWolf and Icecat have both worked fine for me.