{"id":44462,"date":"2017-03-22T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44462"},"modified":"2020-07-30T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:06:45","slug":"impending-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44462","title":{"rendered":"Impending misery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I unplugged, packed up and moved my PC, I didn\u2019t think much of it.\u00a0 I have two other laptops that I use that satiate standard needs that there was no real rush to getting my system back up and running in any timely fashion.\u00a0 So, for the better part of the last month, my PC had been sitting dormant, a black box surrounded by wound up cords and monitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

So naturally, the moment I needed to retrieve something important off of my PC, it would be at this moment that I\u2019d discover that the hard drive inside of it seems to have died.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve dealt with hard drive failures in the past, and it\u2019s never particularly pleasant, but the timing of this one combined with the fact that this wasn\u2019t a hand-me-down machine like several of those before this one, but one I purchased myself with hopes that I could ride it for a good bit, which I did, has made this particular hard drive failure a particularly hard pill to swallow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to mention that pretty much everything important to me, from photography, sensitive documents, websites, writing and all of my work samples and professional information were on it.\u00a0 Not just from the last six years that I\u2019ve had this PC, but from many more years before it, all transferred and preserved throughout my time of owning computers in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Naturally, I never backed up this machine at any point, because backing up computers takes time, effort, money or all of the above that I never really wanted to expend, because I don\u2019t think anyone ever really thinks about hard drive failure, until it happens to them, to which by then, it\u2019s often times too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

So basically, I\u2019m sitting on a non-functioning hard drive that contains nearly my life\u2019s professional body of work on it, not to mention an archive of over 15 years of photographs, among numerous other digital personal effects that would be absolutely devastating for me to lose.\u00a0 Needless to say, I am quite unhinged about this scenario, and am on the cusp of freaking out and\/or losing it, if it turns out that I have actually lost all or a substantial chunk of this information.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this regard, I hate everything.\u00a0 I hate that hardware are like automobiles, that they eventually break down from nothing but merely time alone, and that\u2019s the accepted norm of computer ownership.\u00a0 I hate that we\u2019re all so reliant on computers and things existing digitally.\u00a0 I hate that if I decided to go contrarian to this, and be anal retentive about backups and keeping physical copies, I\u2019d eventually grow resentful of a pile of backup hard drives and\/or physical matter eventually cluttering up my space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I just hate that this shit is happening to me right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

All I can really do now is hope that maybe my brother can help me find some magic way to keep the hard drive spinning long enough for me to pull my data.\u00a0 Failing that, then I\u2019ll be forced to stop being such a tightwad with the money I don\u2019t really have a lot of excess of and plunk down to hire a professional data recovery service, and in order to protect themselves from emotional irate customers like I might be, seldom guarantee 100% recovery of information.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just it, regardless of whichever route works, nothing is guaranteed, and ultimately any data that is recovered will ultimately just be moved from one detonated time bomb, to another ticking time bomb of a storage device, counting down to its own impending failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technology fucking sucks, man.\u00a0 It sucks more that I\u2019m so reliant on it, and that I\u2019m being put in such a terrible mood by the potential loss of digital property.\u00a0 Even if I manage to recover all or a good chunk of the contents of this hard drive, it\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to be eager to rush out and get more back-up drives or pay for a cloud-based back-up service; it\u2019s like why would I want to back my shit up at day 1, when I\u2019m inevitably going to accumulate more digital clutter that I\u2019m going to grow attached to and want to keep?<\/span><\/p>\n

I need to not let this upset me so much, but it\u2019s difficult.\u00a0 I\u2019ve admittedly been on edge throughout the last weeks, mostly on account of the uneasy transition I\u2019m going through after selling my house, growing dissatisfied with my career, wondering what I\u2019m going to do with my life, and issues within the family; still, still and still as far as the latter three are concerned.\u00a0 This is just one more inconvenience that isn\u2019t a definitive loss, but still requires time, effort and potentially a lot of money in order to rectify, and I simply don\u2019t want to bother, but will have to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I unplugged, packed up and moved my PC, I didn\u2019t think much of it.\u00a0 I have two other laptops that I use that satiate standard needs that there was no real rush to getting my system back up and running in any timely fashion.\u00a0 So, for the better part of the last month, my … Continue reading Impending misery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,105,25],"class_list":["post-44462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44464,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44462\/revisions\/44464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}