My understanding is that he is not the person who deleted the data, the agent did it by entering the pin. That’s an interesting wrinkle. Is that materially different than entering the wrong pin 10 times which often also wipes the device?

Old slow gas and steam engines where you can hear every click and pop. https://youtu.be/eChBqGajIyo

“Blocks con traffic” - what’s that?

3 separate backups

2 different media types

1 off-site

Gardening and cooking. Plant some veggies or herbs used in your favorite recipes. Start a sourdough starter. Then when they ripen, use them to cook with. Feed that back into planning the garden for next year. Low cost, small chunks of time spread out over months, high personal reward.

It was a d100

And we’re starting with the New York Times, right?

I’ve heard good things about this one. It’s on my list to make.

https://homebrewtalk.com/threads/joes-ancient-orange-mead.49106/

How soon is now?

I planted a bunch of seeds that are now outgrowing their little pots. They look great but I have to figure out where to plant them. I may have 8 ghost pepper plants. Oops.

It usually (or used to) goes the other way. I would expect the same parts to be worth about half after 3 years.

The Atari 2600 was priced at $189.95 in 1977, which is equivalent to at least $1010 today. I think the current pricing is in line with history, although the chip and memory shortage certainly won’t help. I’ve always gotten more enjoyment from PC gaming, anyway.