It’s on the internet forever, but whatever the regular user needs is lost behind poor content indexing and incompetent search functions
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tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s the old adage? If it’s on the internet it is there forever? ^except ^when ^nintendo ^IP ^lawyers or ^dmca ^douchebags ^are ^involved
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Really with an SSD this makes extra sense. Not only would over writing the data immediately take some time but would also use up the limited write cycles faster.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even with spinning disks all that extra write traffic isn’t exactly great.
Plus scrubbing floppies takes forever