54. Failure is the interesting option

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Today, it’s a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down.Playlist:00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past00:07 DJ Daemon: It’s been a tough week, so today it’s more music and nothing serious planned. But the topic is “Stupid mistakes”. Mostly mine.00:28 Ilmarque – Circus of Kismet04:14 DJ Daemon: The story of the bad DCopy.05:09 Beek and Virt of Tequila – Fruitbat09:29 DJ Daemon: The story of the useless backup.10:21 Arachno and Seablue – In memory12:23 DJ Daemon: The story of “Violence does it”. How a hard drive power connector fits upside down.13:15 Moby – Fury-Tube15:45 DJ Daemon: Who framed Roger Rabbit? The story of not understanding copy protections.16:42 Dustbin of Charlie.Brown.records – Flying Around A Rainbow21:01 DJ Daemon: Burning down the chip: the story of the reset button that killed…22:01 Falah – Dark comedy sad af24:33 DJ Daemon: The missing three – the story of a mistreated C6425:34 Allister Brimble – Overdrive29:25 DJ Daemon: Loose screws and heads, the story of Daisy the destroyer of diskdrives.30:19 Sphenx – Ocean of Dark37:00 DJ Daemon: A shock to the system: how not repair stuff.37:53 Buzzer of Zenon – The White Thing41:04 DJ Daemon: Last story: No!!! It’s DON’T!!!!41:52 Rapture – Aurora Borealis47:19 DJ Daemon: A bit of the future..48:06 Yannis Brown – Magic carpet journey50:20 DJ Daemon: Outro51:06 Adkd – Saved – Calm remix53:44 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker53:53 Joloosx – Roll-out55:47 DJ Daemon: leading you into the good night.56:18 Lesnik of Altair – Horizon59:46 ericade.radio – An echo from a digital past59:52 Funktion of Paranoids – Deepness Production notes: An episode made by me on the fly, as I didn't have time to write a script but still wanted to talk about some topic. Stupid mistakes and failures make for amusing storytelling.Colophone:"Failure is the only option" is a trope defined in the TV-tropes directory. It's a storytelling trope that dictates that the only option open to the heroes must lead to failure. The joke is that I'm mixing it with the old saying "IF you fail, at least you learn something interesting". Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021