[muppetman]

Are we supposed to feel sorry for this person, or chuckle at them? This is like storing all your data on a floppy disk you never back up and then accidentally dropping it in the toilet.

[duskdozer]

As much as I want to dunk because it's an AI user, I do think it's really frustrating and bad design when actions don't clearly indicate they will make permanent deletions. I've been bitten by similar things before because the effects weren't obvious to me, in part because when I design things I automatically think to give a warning before doing things that may be unintuitive. Even if I do have backups, it's usually a big annoyance for me to restore, and I'd rather never need to.

[perching_aix]

I have a hard time chuckling at data loss. Espcially given that exporting and backing up your data from online services has an even smaller tradition than taking backups of one's local data, which is sadly rare in itself on the individual level.

[kranner]

What's the expression? Kein Backup, kein Mitleid.

Not that I've ever had the heart to say it to a friend who has shown up with a computer that won't boot and data they must recover. Sometimes it's the same friend a second time.

[voidUpdate]

I think even a toileted floppy would be fine if you dried it off, surely? You can't exactly flush it unless you have one of those tiny floppies