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Not only because third world issues, but because I like adrenaline, I don't have any backup strategy but an old external HDD where I haven't copied stuff since 2018.
When I could afford a new PC and tried to rsync my data from my old crappy laptop, much of it was lost.
That being said, I had a backup strategy back in the day that was burning CDs. I used to have a second HDD (a IDE one) but they were so freaking bad all of them went bad after a year or so, so I have like 3 or 4 of them stored without any chance to recover their data.
After having recently restored some stuff from an aging external hdd, i'm seriously considering getting a few dvdr discs and burning the important things every now and then.
I know they don't last forever either, but - just as a random example that has definitely never happened to me hahaha - you can drop them from a height of 3 feet and still get files off them!