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Very valid if you're running tape backups. Always need to test regularly to ensure you can actually access your backups, otherwise they're useless...

The Projekt@wearetheprojekt.bsky.social

Older LTO drives read only two generations back, so an LTO-5 drive from eBay reads LTO-3 and nothing older. For a homelab, a spare drive matters more than a spare box of tapes.

We haven't seen too many mice with ABXY buttons, but there's a first time for everything

WedgeStratos@wedgestratos.bsky.social

Perhaps it's not the weirdest accessory I own, but I am amused as hell by my FragFX Shark 360 controller, which is in fact a KBM-type controller for the Xbox 360. It's not a good mouse, nor is it a good Xbox controller, but it can be both, and that's cool to me.