Comment on Some are too young to understand

• aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But, my dearest Drag, you miss the point! There will be generations of humans that have no experience of spinning rust, of whirring platters, or of the dreaded tick- tick- tick- of a crashed head and lost data. What will they do?

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably invent new kinds of sex we can’t even imagine

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How are hard drives “spinning rust”? Are solid state drives “stationary sand”?

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Magnetic recording materials have historically been metal oxides, I have no clue if that remains true for modern hard drive platters. I guess you could argue that SSDs are stationary sand, but you could make the same argumant for the majority of semiconductors so I don’t think it sufficiently specifies SSDs.

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