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It is good to be prepared for worst.

If Poal.co had a long unexpected outage, meaning something could be wrong, what are emergency communication channels you suggest us use?

Current possibilities are:

What else do you suggest?

It is good to be prepared for worst. If Poal.co had a long unexpected outage, meaning something could be wrong, what are emergency communication channels you suggest us use? Current possibilities are: * https://phuks.co/s/PoalCo * https://voat .co/v/Poal (risk of downvote trolls) What else do you suggest?

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[–] [Sticky] • 7 pts

I would be happy to update you guys on phuks.co/s/PoalCo if that should happen.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Phuks is trash

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

it's pretty tame

[–] • 3 pts

phuks looks like a good fallback

[–] • 2 pts

Phuks is censorship happy. Use Voat if that isn't down as well.

[–] • 2 pts

Ok will do.

[–] • 2 pts

I mean it's just my suggestion, not a command.

[–] • 2 pts

You don't have a gab account :P ?

[–] • 1 pt

I do I just don't use it nearly as much as AOU uses gab.

[–] • 3 pts

gab would be better than Phuks imo.

[–] • 2 pts

@AOU uses gab?

I can annoy him on another platform?

[–] • 2 pts

also https://chat.poal.co (no email required)

Though poal has had two downtimes this year (one caused by previous cucked woke hosting and second from a payment issue), it's pretty stable.

[–] • 1 pt

Hopefully there will be no more downtime until 2022 at least.

[–] • 3 pts

Not sure what happened to voat but I cant be arsed with it anymore.

[–] • 3 pts

I wasn’t able to register at phuks

[–] • 4 pts

I think it has been disabled for awhile. It's a dead / dying place.

[–] • 1 pt

It was deactivated at the beginning of 2020, but enabled again last time I checked.

[–] • 3 pts

Voat's probably at higher risk of going down and not coming back up. Phuks is pretty censored the last time I was logged in there.

I'd prefer to go to a titty bar, but since I'm married, Hooters would be good enough.

[–] • 3 pts

But they are not very likely to be down simultaneously.

Phuks is just an emergency backuo channel.

Phuks has both friendly and sonewhat hostile members.

[–] • 2 pts

If Voat is being used...yes, it is likely they could both be down at the same time.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

8kun, ruqqus, & mewe are the only other sites I would recommend. Since my hard drive went IMF self-destruct mode last November, and took out all the login info, voat is no longer an option. With no password recovery, and their idiotic rule that one has to have a certain amount of hero cookies to post (or even to answer a post with a link), I'm not inclined to start over, so I'll just be a lurker there. Gab, minds, and all the other options censored my posts more than once, and got my FU response. A new one (I don't recall the name of) requires an app, and I don't do that crap, so it's out. Never figured out how to work 4chan. Yeah, not many options.

[–] • 0 pt

How old was the HDD when it failed? And how often had it been used?

[–] • 1 pt

Unknown. I buy all my PCs** used** from eBay, from one particular seller that has the OS pre-installed and pre-activated, so I never have to agree to the TOS, or interact with M$ directly. Yeah, I know M$ is going to get some personal info just by using the OS, but that can be limited. Every PC I have bought from him lasted 3-4 years, so now I know doing a bare-metal/clone copy of the hard drive is essential. I have several new/blank WD 1TB hard drives waiting in my parts-bank, so hopefully I can at least double the usual 3-4 years lifespan. Not sure how many times one can copy a hard drive....if it is like DVDs, not many before it degrades.

[–] • 0 pt

like DVDs

Do you mean DVD-RW?

HDDs have no write cycle limit like DVD-RW/flash storage. One sector can be written to indefinitely. The HDD lifespan is just limited by mechanical parts.

In addition, optical media degradation is predictable (en.EverybodyWiki.com).

We still have many intact HDDs from the 2000s. But beyond 4 years of age, the risk of failure increases.

[–] • 1 pt

Anyone know how to reach level 2 on poal?

[–] • 2 pts

What is special about Level 2 particularly?

(The list of users who downvoted a post or comment is visible starting at level 6. But you can always participate.)

[–] • 1 pt

Starting level 2 you can create 2 subs, then you need to level up to create another one (level 2 = 2 subs, level 3 = 3 subs....up to 30)

[–] • 1 pt

Ah, yes. I almost forgot.

I was already above 40 points when I created my first Poal subverse, therefore I didn't notice the restriction.

[–] • 2 pts

You can post interesting stuff and comment on relevant topics.

[–] • 1 pt

Create a network with local people and go outside.

[–] • 2 pts

I wonder how long a user called Redditisstillrubbishsuckmyballs would last on Reddit.

You lasted a month here!

[–] • 0 pt

Did I? Pretty sure it was years.

[–] • 1 pt

But you are only registered for a month.

[+] [deleted] • 0 pt