Baffling. Its also becoming the norm to not even have a PC.
I don’t know when it happened, but at some point I started giving off the vibe of “you should give this guy your old/unused tech.” I’m not complaining.
There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive
Submitted 2 days ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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digger@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have that vibe, I recently had to move… now I am complaining a little. It never seems like that much until you have to pack it all.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For real though, you think it’s hard fighting through bullshit application processes WITH A COMPUTER.
Now imagining doing it without a computer. From the library. Or trying to do it from a hotel business center. Or from your unreliable phone.
That’s reality for so many people. I meet them every day.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oh that’s a nightmare.
morto@piefed.social 1 day ago
The amount of people not caring anymore for their data is impressive. Sometimes, someone asks me to help factory resetting their phone and I ask about their data and they just tell me that it’s fine if they lose, because they have nothing of importance. I try not to make a weird expression, but I always fail the composure check.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
marketing really did a number on peoples brains with “cloud”
cloud meaning, the billionaires hard drives. that’s where their data is. but they have no idea.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Interesting. I don’t even know how many hard drives I have, but if I had to guess, at least 15 of them still work, and my 3 top hard drives add up to 10TB and are all effectively brand new.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Exactly ha. I have like over 15… But my one gamer friend just has his desktop with a 1 tb ssd in it. I’m always confused when he has to install games when i have multiple hundreds installed all the time!
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh I do have even more than that even that probably still work, but the extra ones I didn’t count came from my late father and they’re encrypted. Those drives are in the 80GB to 320GB size range, so no immediate reuse to me, I keep them around for whatever files I can extract off of them whenever I get around to it.
Damndest thing, last year, 11 years after my father passed away, I was actually able to guess his encryption password, because well I knew my daddy ya know, so I have already extracted some of those encrypted files. Mostly personal files of his though, no fun games or anything, but information I’d like to keep regardless.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I also have a desktop with a 1tb ssd in it. I’ve also got a backup harddrive plugged into one of the USB ports, though.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
5 HDD, 2 SSD
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I have most of the hard drives from my previous computers. One of these days I’ll get an enclosure for them and see what still works.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Do it sooner than later if there’s anything you want to save. I’ve got a dozen old HDDs and recently picked up an enclosure. Only tried a half dozen drives so far, but 2 of them were dead. The drives were probably about 10 years old and haven’t been used in 6-8 years or so.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There are no more first world countries. The USA itself is now a second world country, and has alienated all its allies.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I live in a 1st world country and i dont have a PC. Ive always just used my work laptop and my PS5 on the TV.
…that being said i am saving up to get a PC lol
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And you’re on Lemmy!! You must be a rare bird
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah true lol but its also locked so hard that i cant even install basic SEO tools without blowing the CEO, so hopefully soon I will be apart of the PC masterrace ive been hearing so much about
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh jeez.
Um…
2TB nvme for my desktop.
256GB nvme “test drive” that formerly contained my Linux Mint environment.
128GB SATA SSD for my old Windows 10 data.
512GB drive in my rescued HP Elite x2.
Couple of “scrap” 1 TB HDDs that are donating parts to a drive revival project that has probably failed at this point.
Another 1 TB in a rescued Lenovo laptop that I’m refurbing to give away.
16x 2TB SSDs in a supermicro server I’m playing around with, 2x 1TB nvme in there as well.
Oh, another drive of unknown size in another laptop 2-in-1 that may get refurbed and given away.
Maybe 27 or so drives, and that’s not counting my work computer, or my partner’s computer.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 day ago
Meanwhile, I just picked up 40tb of new drives to add to the ~30tb I currently have, between 3 desktops and 2 laptops.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah, the common lemming arrives!
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Let’s see…
Workstation PC: 9 x 2TB SSD, 3 x 10TB HDD, 3 x 256GB NVME
Gaming PC: 1 x 2TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD
Laptop: 16GB NVME (impressive, I know)
CCTV recorder: 1 x 500GB SSD
Portable drives: 2 x 1TB HDD, 2 x 3TB HDD
Lying around not installed in anything right now: 2 x 1TB HDD
Plus a bunch of older, smaller, insignificant drives lying around or in ancient laptops that will probably never be used again. Could easily scrounge up a dozen or so tiny, obsolete drives if I needed them for some reason.
So … what do I win?
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have three drives and I would have two more if it wasn’t for the AI slop bullshit making them cost thrice as much.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
oh i’m quite enraged at this. my hdd i bought NOT EVEN A YEAR AGO is now MORE THAN DOUBLE the price for the exact same unit. But this is what They want, so you can own nothing. They’ll never come down in price again.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I have 2, I suppose. One in my laptop, and one in my dead windows 10 desktop.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t owned a computer in well over a decade. Between my phone and various other gizmos, I rarely need one. And when I have to do my taxes, I use my computer at work.
Sure, there’s are some PC games I’d like to try, but none of them are worth the upfront cost of a PC.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s insane to me.
I hate “computing” on tablets or phones, ick. Guess i’m an old fogey.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
If you got laid off how would you even apply for another job?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I got laid off, how I type my resume would be the least of my worries.
atropa@piefed.social 1 day ago
You need just one EMP, and alle electronics are fried,
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thats not how it works. Once the emp field is gone things return to operation. They dont just fry like in Small Soldiers.
atropa@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Good luck with that ,radio tubes will survive ,electronics won’t .
atropa@piefed.social 1 day ago
Name a first world country ,murica isn’t one
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Off the top of my head… Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, Monaco, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Ireland, northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, San Marino, Czechia, Greece. Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand.
I’m leaving out Africa and South America because I’m not too familiar with what countries are and aren’t considered 1st world.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How many are recommended?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Besides those drives installed inside other devices, I have like 2 portable ssds and 1 portable hdd totalling like 4 TB
bunch of micro sd cards…
I treat it as an effective 1 TB of storage tho… I mean, I use the multiple storage device as redundancy. I’m not gonna actually treat this as I have 4TBs…
Cloud storage is used as offsite backup.
I have a shitty budget laptop and a steam deck and nintendo switch 2… I haven’t even have the energy to play anything for months… mostly just binge watch anime and stuff…
I don’t have a desktop… I don’t like the idea of a device that’s contrained to only be used in one place… how do you even pack it if you wanna move?
That said I don’t really have a place I feel “home” yet… so my mind thinks more like a “nomad”
I like using phone more often… cuz you have it with you everywhere, so I treat my phone as my “Main” device… If I type a document, I always copy it to be on my phone at all times…
Hard to move stuff like a desktop pc or a bookshelf of books, dvds, game cartidges… so I kinda favor digital versions of stuff more than physical…
I don’t bother keeping “backups” of every media I watched, feels like it would cost too much for storage… when you factor in like replacements when drives eventually die… and the headache of having to manage all that… so I only keep irreplacible files like photos, documents,or my writings. And maybe like a .zim wikipedia file or a bunch of ebooks since those doesn’t take much space.
Does everyone on Lemmy have like an entire serverroom or something? Lmfao
(USA btw)
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
People on here talk about their 100 TB NAS setups, and that seems like the lemmy norm, lol!!
Myself have like 20 TB. Still not enough.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Actual spinning disks, i have 7in active service. SSD’s I have another 9 at a minimum .
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My laptop has 2 hard drives… it just goes up from there.
s@piefed.world 1 day ago
I have two hard drives. One to work and one back home.
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wuffah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll tell you what’s hard, watching this show! Bwaah, haw haw haw!
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love Statler and Waldorf!