Lmao it's par for the course for open directories, plenty of them in the past I've accessed with just bare IP addresses XD

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I find actual classic country to just be boring, but not boring with a beat enough for work music like Classical music.

The modern country stuff I loathe for just like you said, being Republicunt siren songs lol

Sadness :(

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Fr, I feel like it's gotten really bad like for every original movie there's like 8 shitty remakes, reboots or "live adaptations" sad lol

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When it comes to old drives, you may very well only get one good read out of it before its gone for good. (Or at least solidly in a very pricey data recovery service territory)

If you have the means to do so, consider a data recovery service first and foremost if you can't afford it or don't want to proceed on

So the first thing you want to do is make a byte-by-byte raw image of the drive(s) with a tool like this https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

BUT you will need a destination drive that's at least the same size as your source. So if your old drive is 500GB you'll need a destination that has 500GB free or more. Id personally go a tad bigger because ya never know and remember this might be the last time you get a good read

Second it sounds like you did plug it into android and it tried adding in it's default folders, but 1) it probably picked up the 500MB or so tiny boot partition windows makes 2) it only adds folders, it doesn't wipe partitions.

So in both your data is probably fine BUT

It does sound like your drive isnt particularly healthy, so until you're ready to make that image keep it offline and disconnected

Once you have the image, you do all your work from there and keep your source drive safe until you're 100% you don't need it anymore

Because things, unfortunately, cost money to run. Digital crowdsourcing isn't magic, it requires adequate infrastructure to run and facilitate said crowdsourcing data.

Static maps are easy, load em up on a server and people just download one way. Sure it might get a little slow when busy but eh.

Live things however require constant near-real-time communication to be useful. And that requires servers and bandwidth and other infrastructure.

And that's not even going into how the premium fee goes back into further development and refinement of other features and maintenance.

And before you say "Well, federation!" I say well look at the Threadiverse, each is comprised of individual instances that's true. But each instance, has a bill they have to pay to keep running.

Tbf, that's dirt cheap and getting used to "free" products like Google Maps with live traffic is kinda how we got in this mess on the first place LMAO

I don't think having a paywall in of itself is bad, so long as it's a good affordable and reasonable price and isnt going to some giant corpo

It looks like the same drive, but more unhinged

Maybe the next Phoronix article is going to be even eviler 😅

It's more of associating your basic pleasure emotions like happiness that's the problem "I'll be happy when X" rather than something more healthy like "I want to do X because I want to better myself/It will solve Y problem/it's a personal achievement of mine"