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Back in the 90s, that feeling when Netscape or Windows used to crash. First, a feeling of utter sadness, having lost whatever work was open (imagine writing a W
by Fnoord 5y ago
Back in the 90s, that feeling when Netscape or Windows used to crash. First, a feeling of utter sadness, having lost whatever work was open (imagine writing a Word document for school and hours lost, that's when you learn to save regularly). Then the feeling of relief: ah, at least I gotta start over. But it keeps gnawing. What did I miss? Back then, there was no term for it (or it wasn't popularized), now there is: FOMO.
With regards to your quote, writing down helps the brain memorizing. It turns out typing it out doesn't help as much. In that sense, a notes app isn't akin to writing a note, the former isn't handwriting and the latter isn't digitized with all the advantages (and disadvantages!) attached. Its why I bought a reMarkable 2 for my mother (before they went all cloudy). She writes down a lot. It became a mess of notes, pure chaos. A digital notebook is the best of both worlds.
- silon42 5y agoI have the same feeling now... Firefox doesn't crash anymore, even with 1000+ (unloaded) tabs... but I will often found that the page (or a youtube video) is now gone/removed after months or even years. I suspect it still loses data and maybe corrupts profile if there is a disk full.
- jolmg 5y ago> I suspect it still loses data It deletes history entries once they're too old, and it also only keeps the last timestamp of when a URL was visited, so you can't know how often you visit a URL. https://superuser.com/questions/1054833/does-mozilla-firefox-automatically-delete-old-history-entries https://superuser.com/questions/1054833/does-mozilla-firefox...
- klodolph 5y agoBack in the 1990s, on old Macs, when Netscape crashed, it crashed with a "type 11" error which brought down the whole system. (I remember Word had autosave... I don't know when it first appeared, though.)
- analog31 5y agoWorse, a single mac could take down all the Macs on the network. At one point I reproducibly traced it to a font.
- BeefWellington 5y agoThere was an old adventure game mantra that I find has served me well professionally: "Save Early, Save Often."
- Fnoord 5y agoSure, that was a lesson I learned from such (though some software did/does not allow to save). Even auto saved 'lagged' behind back then. Even 5 minutes can be a big difference if you made changes but can't memorize all of them. Nowadays, even fast software such as Sublime Text autosaves somewhere in homedir.