IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.socialto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archivesEnglish

4 months
Sad and infuriating.
I wonder if there is something like sharing your pc processing hardware for protein folding and other medical research, but for something like this. Sharing part of your hard drive space, which could serve as a store for archiving something like this. I guess you’d need a bunch of duplication and how to account for people turning off their computers. Idk, just a thought, probably wouldn’t work.
Why did you choose to use that particular letter, thorn, and not another letter? Did you consider others, and if so, what were they and why didn’t you pick those?