My Olight Collection

[DoctorMemory]

... remains secret.

 

[Monocrom]

No offense, we prefer pics.

 

[DoctorMemory]

No offense, we prefer pics.

Thanks

 

[sween1911]

LOL I gotta say, I still have an old school M30 Triton as my car light. Loaded with three CR123's and always at hand.

 

[PaladinNO]

As impressive as a 1000+ Olight flashlight collection is on paper, it's hard to appreciate something at that scale without pictures.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

No offense, we prefer pics.

Oh, the irony.

 

[Monocrom]

I posted some pics. over the years.
Last year my computer died a horrific death. Almost to the day.
Still not sure what really happened. Everything was lost!
MIT graduate and Freelance computer programmer called in.
Not cheap. Did some Voodoo. Fixed and recovered everything....
Except my pics. saved on my comp. Those were completely lost!
Only thing that was sacrificed so I'd have my computer working properly again.
Overall, small price to pay. And the huge frickin' bill from the Freelancer. Worth it.

 

[PaladinNO]

I posted some pics. over the years.
Last year my computer died a horrific death. Almost to the day.
Still not sure what really happened. Everything was lost!

And in this market, a dead computer would be the worst! Storage and RAM is like up 400 % since November 2025.

I am glad I went crazy with the storage in my home server a few years ago, but I deeply regret not getting the RAM kits I had picked out while I could even get them. It was still 2025 - I hadn't scheduled a new build until 2026...and surely the prices would stay steady for another 6-7 months. That decision turned out to be a [strong censorship] thanks to the damn AI nonsense!

Now I'm just praying my current one lasts me a few more years. I don't need a new one, but this time I planned on building a dedicated gaming machine, and delegating my current rig to work and only retro gaming, selling the RTX 3080 and getting like a used RTX 2070. I've had a RX 7900 XTX (Asrock TaiChi OC White) sitting in the box since July last year - and there is NO WAY I am touching my rig now, to replace the GPU. Not risking anything now!

Top tip for a backup solution though: get an external HDD, and only connect it when you're using it. Then make a manual backup every 3 months or whatever suits your needs. Those are still "cheap enough" (if any kind of decent storage can be called cheap these days) and a decent solution. I can recommend getting a Western Digital MyBook. I've had 3 of them, and all 3 still works, only upgraded the size as I have needed more space / obtained more files I want to keep an external backup of.

 

[Monocrom]

Thankfully, I'm just Old-fashioned enough to keep NOTHING on my computer.
No banking records. No addresses. No phone numbers. Nothing of real value.
Everything of value on paper. I don't trust computers. Never did! Still applies today.
Still, obviously I wish that complete shut-down out of nowhere hadn't happened.
Best guess, some jerk had a hidden virus tucked away behind a page I opened.
It might have been on a website featuring Artistic Nudes. (Nothing wrong with that.)
Some folks have nothing better to do with their sad lives than make computer viruses.

 

[alpg88]

A secret is not always hiding what you have, it often hides the absence.