• Flying Squid
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    47 months ago

    I don’t disagree with you, but on the other hand, this will be a huge boon for people who do things like sail the high seas and wish to keep what they acquire long term. You’re not constantly rewriting in those cases. You’re just slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) filling up the drive. Eventually, it’s essentially read only.

    Considering how much I spent on 6 TB of regular hard drive storage for this reason a few years ago, I’d be all for affordable 8 TB SSDs.

    • JWBananas
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      57 months ago

      sail the high seas

      You don’t need solid state storage for Linux ISOs

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      I recently bought a 5TB hard drive. It’s funny how that sounds like a lot of space until you fill it up and find yourself eyeing another.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      I mean, you’re not wrong but I eventually bought all that shit I torrented in college on gog or steam when I got a job

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        There are plenty of games that you can’t buy on Gog or Steam even today (like any emulation ISO from console games), and sharing is caring for others that can not afford it.