Many use just HDDs. The load delay is usually because they don’t want to spin up every disk just for one chunk of a file, so they collect jobs and schedule spin up and down times.
But there are dedicated services that indeed use tape.
Depending on what cloud tier you are using they might use tape then (e.g. IBM Cloud Object Storage Deep Archive).
It is marked as a breaking change in the release notes though.
I have done the same. I have shared my apps though - just not here. I went to the communities they are targeting. Of course I made clear that the apps were vibe coded and lo and behold everyone was fine with it. It’s just this community that is especially toxic about this topic.
I usually read my RSS feeds on my phone. That’s fine - I could do this by just subscribing to the sources directly. But every once in a while I want to look up something I read some years ago and I don’t quite remember what the article was called and where it was published. Filtering and searching on my desktop is much more convenient and I have my history saved there - even if the blog in question is offline in the meantime. In addition some RSS feeds only send a short text and a “read more” link. With FreshRSS I can configure a feed to automatically load the complete article from the website and in my reader it shows up as if the feed was a real full feed with pictures and everything. I can even compress the pictures to optimize loading as my main reader is my phone.
I have two WD Red 3TB with 109.858h and a Samsung SSD 830 256GB with 110.639h on my main workstation (which I built in 2011). That’s 12½ years and some extra hours uptime. They are all three fine and still in use.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me there is a misunderstanding of what Linkwarden is.
If you don’t trust the hosted service you can always self-host it.
If you don’t trust yourself…
That’s good to hear. The performance of the UI was always an issue for me.
We also did use bring for a long time and the only one coming near to it’s UX was KitchenOwl for me.