Go ahead. Make your educated case based on your research on how Putin is Stalin 2.0.

I'll wait.

Oh but it is in question. Just ask literally any lib in the fediverse. The Narrative tells us that all of that was just part of how Ukraine is democratic, unlike the totalitarian Russia. If it was a coup, then it was a coup that the wholesome Ukrainian people (none of them Nazis) all wanted. Only the tankies, having fallen for the Russian Disinformation and become Russian bots themselves believe that it was a actual "coup," so we always have to put it in scare quotes and snicker about how easily misled the authoritarian tankies are. Have you been living under a rock or something, tankie?

Edit: Seriously though, articles like this are taken by the liberals as more evidence that the coup didn't happen, you know, because the evil ~~Voldemort~~ Putler said it. That's literally what the scare quotes are about. The article is reinforcing the false idea that the coup is just Russian disinformation, relying on the fact that they've already made everyone believe that Putin is the villain antagonist of the story they've crafted. They're expecting everyone reading to roll their eyes at the "dictator" and say to themselves the same kind of foolish thing bobzer@lemmy.zip said below, casting doubt on the fact that the coup happened.

Have you been living under a rock or something, tankie?

I try to lol. I honestly can't imagine what libs actually think is the reason for the war.

How can you call yourself a socialist when you support a fascist dictator (Putin) running a failing hyper-capitalist petro-state (Russia) conducting an imperialist war of aggression in Ukraine?

Sounds like you're a liberal just wearing a tattered old Soviet hat. You're the same as Americans cheering on their imperialist adventures.

How can you call yourself socialist when you lick the NATO boot and repeat US state foreign policy?

Sounds like you're a scratched iberal. You're indistinguishable from a blue MAGA cheering on the us imperialist adventures

If I remember right, flash memory is basically based on static electricity and those cheap SD cards might self-wipe after a couple years being unplugged

but maybe not lol

Mostly just a small-ish info dump in the event it helps anyone. All flash and nand media can self-wipe if not used for a couple of years (though nand can last longer but may start to slow down to SATA and slower). Even if in an active PC, the parts that are only read but not written this can happen. Learned that from some episodes of "Security Now" podcast and personally saw it happen with a PC I was trying to fix for someone. On the show one of the hosts has a commercal program called "SpinRite" that was made to help with HDDs that have non-moter/actuator issues revive sectors.

Some testers using it found that it also helps with nand that has drastically slowed down from reading spots that never really get writes come back to normal speeds. In my case, I tried it on the PC I was working on and it really did help (the OS was already borked so it wasn't going to hurt trying it out) with it loading much faster. Obviously the cheaper the flash/nand the faster issues will happen.

I have seen some random motherboards offer basically a pre-erase on SSDs that are acting slow before you re-install the OS to make sure a more complete flipping of cells happens and not just a basic formatting that just zeros the first parts of data and leaves the other cells alone. In that case the data/OS isn't the focus and wouldn't need a special paid software (I am only aware of SpinRite just because of the podcast and bought it to support the host that makes it). I am not sure of any free/FOSS software that does the same full drive cell flips, but I imagine there are some (or will be as flash/nand is used more and more).

Main take away is that it is important to make sure to not just let flash drives/SD/nand drives sit without at least hooking up to a PC every now and then. My PS Vita fell victim to just sitting around dead for a few years along with the Vita card I had in it. Fortunately the ROM with the OS is still working and I was able to at least set it up again.

Someone a while back put a set of very cheap SSDs through a torture test, and after exhausting many of the write cycles, left them alone for months. When powered back on for reads, the drives were slow as the error correction hardware was working overtime to compensate for the loss of trapped charge over time, but mostly recovered their performance after a while.

That said, I have a similar anecdote where one of my very worn test bench SSDs kept complaining about the same bad sectors despite OS reinstalls until I just overwrote it with zeros using dd. Was fine for many months thereafter.

I've no idea either if SpinRite has some secret sauce that FOSS utilities have yet to replicate, but it sounds like a non-destructive read-write test with badblocks ought to do the same.

Also, my CF cards, SD cards, or USB drives from the early 2000s and early 2010s almost never give me trouble despite spending years unplugged. More recent flash memory is a different story though and I suspect the shrinking gate sizes and advent of TLC/QLC/PLC haven't helped. I'll usually splurge a little these days to get the industrial or high endurance MLC flavors and hopefully avoid the issue.

Serious question: Do I have to be a jew in order to use it?

(Because KZs and im German and stuff)

Once upon a time I owned a GameCube memory card, specifically so that I could have my own save progression when visiting my friend's house (who actually owned the GameCube and games). That may not really apply anymore?

On another note though, making the sd card read only means it will last significantly longer. Flash storage (like SD cards) have limited write cycles, so this preserves the games themselves while leaving the much smaller save files to be written somewhere else where they're easier to back up.