Pickles by Brian Crane for August 15, 2021

They’d be back-ward for sure.

Is the thing behind the laptop an external hard drive, power supply or something else?

as a “young people”, that is a good question

Sage shirt, yes. Sage advice, no.

Sage advice: Never use too much sage.

Sage question: “Are you going to Scarborough Fair?”

My brother beeps when he backs up.

Sage advice: use it to dispel evil spirits.

Actually, the third panel is good advice for life and for digital storage. Both too much time spent on past problems and backing up everything one does on pc can cause confusion, frustration, and might ultimately lead to a crash.

Enjoy your memories but enjoy today and look into the future!

I have 4 copies of my data backed up. That includes photos. One copy is in my safety deposit box. I hear stories of people who don’t do it and lose everything then cry about it. I saw this happen early on in school back in the days of floppies. People would put their assignments on them and not make a copy. Then would come the can opener sound of death, all gone!! It did sound like a can opener when the disk was trash.

It’s a toaster.

Earl just had to put his irrelevant two cents in…LOVE IT!

The lesson for foolish Old Pop’s is that it’s not if you are going to crash, but when you will crash. Applies to a lot more the computer drives.

Old Earl is absolutely right. Backing up is time-consuming and, as years go by, also almost useless. No computer reads my floppys anymore. And the disks? So many of them, and what’s in is mostly readable only up to Windows 98. Enough! I just “backup” (keep in a drawer) what I draw or print on PAPER.

I always thought when a disk is backed up, it runs in reverse.

@sirbadger

The device behind the monitor is a CIA transmitter. Move on, nothing to see here.

“Jesus saves.”

Same place. They never listen anyway.

“Pretty sure I hear mom calling you, dad…”

Yeah, but Earl, the sage advice of old farts like us only applies within the framework of things as they have been in the Past.

What most of us miss is that things have been changing all along and have introduced situations where that advice no longer makes any sense.

Without data, Earl, that’s where they’d be…

Sage, either a weed that’s useless to smoke, or a weed that’s made to wander.

I prefer continuous replication solutions.

Earl, you are not the only old fart without a clue.

I am a life member in the old farts club

When I visit my parents, I always feel like a HERO after I help ’em with their tech problems…..

Sounds like my hubby on reading comics, he goes forward not reverse.

Earl is trying to impart his wisdom to his only child. She sees it for what it is, and seems content. So what if he is basically in another universe?

Could be a bluetooth speaker or a hard drive.

There are two kinds of computer users. Those who back up and those who will at the next crash.

I wish I had 2TB of future to go forward to.

There’s an old comedy routine on this subject (Abbott and Costello used it, but maybe it predated them). This recreation isn’t an exact transcript, but it captures the spirit of it:

Abbott (passenger in car): “You have to back up to get out of this parking space.”

Costello (driver): “I gotta back up?”

Abbot: “Yes, go ahead.”

Costello puts the car in drive.

Abbot: “What are you doing?”

Costello: “I’m doing what you told me to.”

Abbot: “I told you to back up.”

Costello: “You want me to back up?”

Abbot: “That’s right, now go ahead.”

You can imagine that this confusion continues for a while.

Their eyes wouldn’t get so much excercise from rolling them at their parents