JUST IN - Internet Archive under DDoS attack for the last several hours...👀
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I always save web pages as PDFs
PSA for anyone that knows how to use docker or install programs. I use this and it is awesome (and free of course). It can learn documents that you tag so if for example you scan tax forms in and tag them as taxes or form-1040 or whatever, after scanning a few it can auto-tag the rest if you tell the tag to learn. I tag the year as well, so in 5 years I could search for taxes and 2023 and those docs would pop right up.
It also does ocr. so the other day I scanned in my insurance card, and also put the info in my password program. I didn't have to type everything in because it turned the pdf into as pdf with text I could cut/paste from. I'm working on getting my military medical records scanned in now. X-rays were tricky but I taped them to my computer monitor screen on a solid white background, took pictures, printed the pics as PDFs, and imported them into paperless. Even the faintest (read - oldest) x-rays were clear, and they are now tagged.
HIGHLY recommended. You could even scan in all the Q posts using those Q PDF archives and they become searchable on your own PC. No cloud. I installed it on my NAS inside of a docker container.
https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
Enjoy.
this is rad thanks so much!!! 🙏🏼
hell I'd even consider getting a filing cabinet and printing pages out so there's still a physical copy if the net/grid goes down.
I just buy a ton of 8gb flash drives off temu and store web pages in form of pdf on them as well as video archive stuff.
I wouldn't risk holding anything important on a cheap drive - you get what you pay for. I've lost ALOT of music+graphics+lyrics etc ive made because i had them stored on cheap thumb drives and they quit working
but also you absolutely shouldn't touch temu with a 10 foot pole. There's several personal lawsuits + class actions against them right now. They sell TF out of your information (that's why they're willing to lose money on products.) and people have even had their bank accounts drained and it was proven to tie back to Temu.
But yeah, I'd definitely go with amazon instead and make sure to do detailed research on which one youre getting - see if people have reviewed it and said it died on them. But - your best bet is buying one external HD vs. a pile of thumbs. a drive has better survival rates.
But, even that - if the grid went down, anything digital ceases to exist. It's worth printing at LEAST a folder (if not a box) worth of stuff that NEEDS preserved.