https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/1vcetnw/parallel_lives_on_the_rooftops_of_hong_kong/
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Interesting!
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trash-cli with an alias to rm is what Iām using.
I generally try and have photos on the SD card for as little time as possible. I import them and usually try and run a backup immediately after I check them into git annex.
What are you doing for import? Can you script it so it includes as backup?
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Thanks, I will give it a try 
Yeah, I am using a script that changes the file name with the date from the exif, to avoid conflicts between cameras. I need to re-think it though, and run the backup as soon as everything is imported. Clear oversight but I guess thatās how one learnsā¦
I do the same, my script uses exiftool, and there is an option to add a number to the filename if there is a conflict, so I use this. I also just append the original filename at then end.
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I import my photos right after every shoot, but I leave photos on the SD card until itās getting close to full. That way, the card is usually an extra backup. Plus, Iām not beating on the same locations on the card over and over.
Rapid Photo Downloader can optionally record a backup while importing. Iāve been meaning to try it, but havenāt got around to that yet.
Surely the card firmware has wear leveling?
Beats me! Never thought of that, but it makes sense.
I donāt actually know either, but I sure hope they do! Surely someone will come along and give us some definitive information
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I assume Delkin inherited this from Lexar, but they indicate that they do have wear leveling: How Do Wear Leveling SD Cards Work? | Delkin Devices
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Interesting read.
Native Americans also used similar systems for managing their land and extracting resources from it before it got destroyed and overrun by colonialists mostly looking for gold. Apparently at its peak there were 3-4 billion american chestnut trees which eventually got destroyed by the blight. Just imagine the amount of food that was extracted from those trees anually with near zero work input by the people who lived there. Apparently 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a good book on this topic, Iāve added into my read list.
In Europe it seems like these systems, and the commons, mostly ended due to feudalism. Villages no longer had rights to their commons, lands got split up and instead of a village taking care of the common land, it was individual families or small groups, so no collective decisions were made on its maintenance, etc.
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I donāt know how relevant this is but Iāve seen SD cards meant specifically for applications like dashcams where they are under constant write cycles. Meant to last longer. Does this imply that ānormalā ones maybe donāt? Or is that a totally different aspect of the techā¦
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Youād hope that if they advertise the card as having more write enduance, that it is true. 
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For dashcams, I would be more concerned about the heat. Imagine hours of direct sunlight on the device, the card inside would be slowly roasting.
At 256gb card would contain at least roughly 12h of video (4k, front+rear, compressed), so the typical 10k write cycles of plain vanilla SD cards would last for about 13 years. I guess it would die first from causes other than wear.
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If youāre interested in history/art history thereās a cool daily game, in the style of NYT daily games, in which you need to place an artifact geographically and temporally.
I already do Wordle and Pips daily, but this is my new favorite of the 3.
Hereās my result for today:
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https://youtube.com/shorts/npmRqT3dyEg?si=2tsmqJXWrRtFmDp1
This is legit crazy.
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Hungary was expecting to face an electicity shortage because the countryās one and only nuclear power plant could only run below capacity due to the shortage of water in the Danube (required for cooling). There was a lot of talk in the press about this, envisioning power cuts, etc.
Then it turned out that the market mechanisms of the continental electric grid is handling it just fine. Prices rise a bit, so it becomes worthwhile to turn on supplementary power plants in, say, the Czech Republic or Germany. And apparently this is a market mechanism, the actual countries have no say in who they export to or import from. Nothing to negotiate on a political level. It just works. I am very impressed.
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