#flash drives

While I strongly recommend keeping local backups of your files on your computer, external hard drives, flash drives, CD/DVD-RWs, etc, it's also a good idea to back up your files online! Here's a list of file storing sites where you can back stuff up for free. Spreading your files across different storage sites may make things more complicated but can also keep from ever having to pay for expanded storage space on any of them. Also, storing your files online creates an easy to share them with friends or publicly on the internet!

Site list is below!

https://app.mediafire.com/ File storage site I've been using since the 2000s! They give you up to 50 GB of free file storage space.

https://www.google.com/drive/ Google Drive allows you to use 15 GB of online storage for free. You can also save links to other people's google drive folders in your main directory, making them easier to find again later.

https://www.dropbox.com/home Drop box gives you 2 GB of free storage. Much smaller than some of the others, but every bit counts when you want to save money!

https://www.4s.io/ 4shared gives you 15 GB of free storage space!

https://mega.io/ MEGA will give you 20 GB of storage space free!

https://archive.org/ Internet Archive is a very good place for storing things such as writings, art, audio, software, videos., etc. All posts are public so this site is ideal for making backups of finished works that you want to show off/keep safe. They run off of donations so if you use their site for storage please consider throwing some cash their way!

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The Following Sites are places where you can archive your video game mods and maps!

https://www.moddb.com/ Mod.db is a nice community where you can archive and share your maps and mods, storage space is unlimited!

https://gamebanana.com/ Gamebanana is rather messy in my opinion, but is still another great place for archiving and sharing game mods/maps you have created!

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/ Steam Workshop mods can't just be freely downloaded from a web browser, so I consider it inferior to gamebanana and mod.db. Still, it can be another good place to archive mods and maps you made for games that have workshop support! It does tend to ease the installation process for mods, but people who got the game from another store may not be able to get your mods!

In North Korea, home of Trump’s object of affection Kim Jong-un, you can get the death penalty for bringing episodes of Squid Game into the country.

North Korea has sentenced to death a man who smuggled and sold copies of the Netflix series “Squid Game” after authorities caught seven high school students watching the Korean-language global hit show, sources in the country told RFA.

The smuggler is said to have brought a copy of Squid Game into North Korea back from China and sold USB flash drives containing the series. Sources said his sentence would be carried out by firing squad.

A student who bought a drive received a life sentence, while six others who watched the show have been sentenced to five years hard labor, and teachers and school administrators have been fired and face banishment to work in remote mines or themselves, the sources said.

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The arrest of the seven students marks the first time that the government is applying the newly passed law on the “Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture,” in a case involving minors, according to the source.

The law, promulgated last year, carries a maximum penalty of death for watching, keeping, or distributing media from capitalist countries, particularly from South Korea and the U.S.

If this doesn’t show how paranoid the communist monarchy of North Korea is, then nothing will.

The North Koreans could have propagandized Squid Game as “proof” of how terrible life is in the non-communist South. Instead they’re worried that viewers will view the series as a metaphor for brutality in the North.

There’s a sidelight which reminded me of unequal justice in the United States.

“But regardless of how strict the government’s crackdown seems to be, rumors are circulating that among the seven arrested students, one with rich parents was able to avoid punishment because they bribed the authorities with U.S. $3,000,” the second source said.

like I grew up in what I’m now affectionately calling “disc world” when the compact disc was groundbreaking tech, moving away from vhs and cassettes to everything having the same flat shiny storage device. I wasn’t old enough to need to use a floppy disc but I remember my dads stack in his office, and playing computer games by sticking the game disc into the external disc drive while the dial up blue line crept across the screen. I burned CDs to listen to my music in my car, cause I don’t like radio near me and there was no aux cord option (new cars did but even my parents didn’t have a car that new) hell I had one (1) whole textbook in high school that had a digital option and guess how we loaded it into the computer

and my sister is only 5 years younger and she doesn’t even remember the flash drive, there’s always been a cloud or online drive and I’m sitting here forgetting we no longer have shitty time warner saying What If You Can’t Connect To The Internet?? Where’s Your External Save Point??? what do you mean a base model phone has more than 8GB????