Comment on RIP obsolete tech

• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Indeed, but I actually like this system: There are no breachable servers between the doctor and the patient, at least a few years ago everyone had a CD drive at home (I know that’s changing), and handing out a disk is way cheaper than a flash drive.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah the CD being cheaper than the USB drive is a great argument for this use case. Unfortunately you can then make the argument that it’s even cheaper to just upload the data to some website. Which then requires you to register, and then sells all your data, and then your private shit eventually ends up on the dark web when they get breached because they cheaped out on IT costs.

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    • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Redundant, privacy compliant storage is expensive. And then you have to deal with customer people that can’t figure things out, and then there’s the barrage of bots trying to break in. Optical media is dirt cheap and most people know what to do with it.

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