BREAKING:

ELECTRONIC STORAGE MEDIA CAN FAIL UNEXPECTEDLY, AND MAY NOT LAST AS LONG AS THEIR MANUFACTURER’S PROJECTIONS CLAIM.

I remember hearing this exact reporting which was somehow simultaneously smug and alarmist concerning every single storage technology including double-density FDs, high-density FDs, the “new” hard drives, all the various controller formats, ZIP drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-RW drives etc etc etc ad nauseum.

No, you fucking retards. The shit isn’t going to be good enough for forever. It’s barely good enough for now. But it’s the best we can get.

Incidentally, that is exactly what your (probably imaginary) signifcant other thinks about you right this very minute.