So many things from the Modern UNIX tools repo!

My daily drivers are: lsd instead of ls - colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting, dust instead of du for better formatting, jq for viewing JSON, gtop instead of top just because it’s so pretty

(I’ve aliased most of these, but there are a few toolchains that have broken)

I agree with your sentiment, but the notion that information in the brain is comparable to binary bits on a scratched CD isn’t really accurate either. Even severely damaged brains have been shown to be able to recover both functions and memories, and it’s unclear exactly how things like individual memories are encoded – or whether encoding is even the right way of thinking about it at all.

That aside, even if some loss is irretrievable, I’d vastly prefer to be left with 80% of myself than 0% of myself.