Independence Day in Cuba is observed each year on October 10th. This commemorates the start of Cuba's (ongoing) struggle for liberation, first from Spain, then from the United States.
The reactionary entity known as the United States of America observes Cuban Independence Day on May 20th, commemorating the date of the Platt Amendment, wherein the US affirmed its right to complete control of Cuba as an "independent" vassal of the US. It is fitting, therefore, that this neocolonial nonsense is marked each year by the denial of Cuba's independence even to declare their own Independence Day.
When reached for comment, the United States of America stated, "The annexation of Cuba is completely different from China's outrageous intrusion on Hong Kong sovereignty for reasons involving eagles and hamburgers and miles per hour and... look, it's complicated, ok, so just take our word for it?"
Today Cuba is an independent country, but unlike many countries around the world, it must fight every day to maintain its independence, against an unrelenting campaign to overtake or destroy it, including embargoes, brazen assassination attempts, external propaganda and attempts to sow dissent, sanctions, and more.
¡Viva la revolución!
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Any data hoarders know how to perform any sort of HDD maintenance on harddrives on video game consoles like the PS3/4, Wii U (external HDD expansion), etc.?
On PC I just plug the drives in run a quick S.M.A.R.T. scan with Crystaldiskinfo and then chkdsk operation to refresh the magnetism once a year or so and to make sure nothing seizes. Not sure how to do that with consoles.
I admire your commitment to archival!
For a console, you can open it up, take out the drive, plug the drive into a computer, and do the same thing.
You just need to be really careful that you don't accidentally format the drive or something.
Yeah. It's a good idea to take apart the consoles and blow any dust out anyways. Might as well do that while I'm taking the HDDs out. I was wondering if the HDDs being formatted to whatever special format the consoles use would hinder doing this.
I don't think they actually use a proprietary format. Just exFAT or FAT32 or something, most likely.