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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: This post has nothing to do with video games
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:00:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 02:14 this Wednesday (GMT):
>
>
><Ramble>
>
> // I'm going off topic here. I know, a radical departure for my 
> // posts, right? Still, I felt a warning was warranted. This post 
> // has nothing to do with video games (it does, however, fall 
> // within the 'comp.sys.ibm.pc' part of the newsgroup, so maybe 
> // that earns me some forgiveness?)
>
>
> Today, I just received my 1TB micro-SD card in the mail. I ordered it
> online and it arrived in a box. Not a big box but... well, if you've
> ever seen the size of a micro-SD card, you know how ridiculous that a
> box was involved at all. But that ridiculous shipping is not really
> what I want to talk about.
>
> It's the fact that I know own a storage device capable of holding more
> data than I EVER owned in the first twenty years of owning
> computers... and it's smaller than my finger nail.
>
> I mean, holy shit.
>
> I literally had to pull out an old hard-drive and put the micro-SD
> Card on top of it, just as a comparison. It was a compulsion I
> couldn't resist. That heavy, massive 3.5" chunk of aluminium and
> spinning rust, the oldest drive in my collection, held 1/50th of what
> this new fleck of plastic --barely even visible against its bulk--
> could contain. In the year 2000, I could have copied the contents of
> every floppy, every CD-ROM and every hard-drive I owned onto that card
> and had room to spare.
>
> And I bought this miracle of technology not only for what was,
> essentially, pocket change (okay, a little bit more than that, but
> given its capacity, it's still next to nothing in cost), but on a
> whim. I don't NEED a 1TB micro-SD card. I don't even really need a
> 128GB micro-SD card. But I wanted one, they were available, and so...
> now I own one. Because the damn things are commodity items. They're
> ORDINARY.
>
> There's a lot of shit I hate about this timeline, but the tech... the
> tech is extraordinary. Sure, it's often terrifying thinking about how
> it will be used, but damn it if the capability of our science isn't
> surpassing the dreams of even the most far-reaching SF author.
> Sometimes, surrounded as we are by all these miracles, we forget that.
>
> God, I love living in the future.
>
>
></Ramble>


The hardware is really impressive, yeah, but the software guys use it as
an excuse to be lazy :( Like, with all the +250GB games out there, high
ram usage (especially on windows), etc, it does feel outweighed
sometimes. But I do agree that the stuff we've done is quite extremely
cool.
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