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important to note:

This is a long‐term commitment. You can remove yourself from the pool whenever you like, but due to misbehaving NTP clients and misguided configurers resolving a singular pool IP once and hardcoding it in a fleet of devices, it can take months, years, or forever for the traffic to stop. (I e‐mailed Dave Plonka about the 2003 Netgear–University of Wisconsin incident recently, and apparently they still see a bit of traffic from these routers.) For a long time after removing yourself from the NTP Pool, you will continue to get hammered on UDP 123 for years.

I’d say either CSV or JSON so you can still look for data easily

Plain text could still work but it would be hard to search for stuff. PDF sounds evil

Alien.top is supposed to be a mirroring thing I think, it’s legit but still being tested and implemented. You can probably find the thread explaining it.

It was supposed to allow Reddit users to post to Lemmy and vice versa, making it easier to transition over, but idk what’s happening here. It looks like all the content is being mirrored over, and I doubt all the users signed up

I guess its fitting that this is the community it’s happening for, but it would be nice to clarify nonetheless

edit: I dont get blocked when I try to access it. Could you try this link instead? It has explainers

https://portal.alien.top/

They’re called communities here, not subreddits which are specific to Reddit

Past that not sure tbh

Could it be simpler to transfer the important stuff off, reformat, and then transfer it back in? You don’t have to change the folder structure if you do it all in bulk

This doesn’t answer your question: Is pirating an option for you? You might be able to grab them more easily that way

My understanding is that original Xbox (and other consoles) need to be modded in order to run discs that aren’t original. If you’re going through the trouble, you could add a bigger hard drive and just load the games into there

Could you check if your local library has a media centre? That might be an easy option and they might support weirder file formats

We have some like this, but I’ve yet to try them: https://www.vpl.ca/facilities/digitize

Librarians are also good about archiving information, and they might be able to point you in the right direction.

Well Reddit admins can probably see it, and Reddit might shut it down at any point. It’s also not intended to be secure, so there’s a chance that some bug might leak data?