*facesmash* & a meme.

[beccatoria]

...my external HD just died. The one that everything lived on. Yeah, yeah, I know, everyone says, back it up four times, etc., etc., but my harddrive ain't huge and I ain't rich enough for two large external HDs so now I've lost...pretty much everything including stuff I know for a fact I'll never get back cus it's been taken offline. Bye bye most of my epic vids collection. I just...seriously. I would like to catch a break at some point, you know? FML.

Therefore in a fit of self-pity I have signed up for the fanvid love meme. I feel a bit like a sheepish whore, but, um, here's my thread:

http://sdwolfpup.livejournal.com/525866.html?thread=12320810#t12320810

Comments

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

BOOOOOOOOOOO D:! if you can remember vids you want back I'll bet the internet can help you find them. I know you have like NO MONEY but take some comfort in the fact that when you have a little money you can get a shiny new humongous drive for cheap (it's like US$125 for 1TB now).

I'm not doing the love meme but I LOVE YOU MORE.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I KNOW ARGH! I will be able to get a fair number of the vids I want back from the internet, yes. Actually with time I will probably be able to reconstruct 85% of what I lost, but some of the vids are probably gone forever because they're so old at this point, I know for a fact that their owners have removed them from the internets, or their websites have lapsed into obsolesence. :(

As to the drive, I've already decided to take advantage of the fact it's almost Christmas to demand a new one cus, really, I can't function without the extra storage and you're right, they don't actually cost that much these days. But I opted for another 500GB portable because if I go for 1TB, not only is there a price jump significant enough that at the moment my NO MONEY EVEN FOR CHRISTMAS problem rears its head and also, you can only get those in 3.5" rather than 2.5" size last time I checked which means I don't think you can run them from the USB plug; they need an independent power source. I am, however, dead paranoid about all my stuff in case this one dies toooo. It's so tempting to shell out $10 a month for a 50 instead of 2GB Ubuntu Cloud Storage account (s'like dropbox but integrated with my Ubuntu setup; I <3 Ubuntu). But there's that doggone money problem again. Maybe in six months when I (HOPE I) will be more stable.

(Also a plus on the money side is the government decided Kev was sick enough to put him in the Official List of Sick People or whatever instead of the List of Sick People we Haven't Prodded and Been Mean To Yet, and thus he now gets an extra £25 a week from the government on top of what he was getting before. It's not huge or anything, but it's a significant boost to our situation. So, not everything about money sucks right now.)

I'm not doing the love meme but I LOVE YOU MORE.

I would never doubt it. <#