This loss of knowledge of how to even do basic things is accelerated in tech

Just try to find someone today who knows how to deal with the layers of tech to get something off an optical SCSI WORM drive formatted as Macintosh HFS with invisible resource forks and Type/Creator codes

Nothing about this type of setup was esoteric or unsupported in the 90s, but today finding a technician to support it is like looking someone who can read ancient hieroglyphs.

The ATF was urgently looking for someone to read data off CP/M formatted diskettes some while back. Imagine a huge agency like that desperate for help opening a safe from 30 years ago as a comparison to how hard it is to work with technology after short periods of time.

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bigfatkitten 15 hours ago | parent [-]

We already see companies now who are dissatisfied with their cloud spend, but with no way out because they have absolutely no idea how to operate their own infrastructure anymore.

	▲	leakycap 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A car dealership hired me to help them change systems. Their 20+ year existing vendor suggested screenshots when asked how they could access/export their data. Anyway, we Did better than Printshots but only had that option because the data was all on-premise. If export options even exist from cloud providers, the incredibly slow speed and poor reliability of download/restores doesn't help.