hd hdd

I still have the dvd drive that came in my first "my own" rather than the family's PC when I was 13. I don't use discs enough to upgrade but it saved my life when I had to reinstall windows 7 for reasons since it was the only way to get data onto the computer other than physically removing a hard drive that was recognised by the OS without drivers. DVDs are good. I like them a lot.

Films and tv shows on dvd.

I could do blu-ray now, i guess, but i've yet to see shelves full of them in charity shops, where i can get dvds for cheap. Also i have no idea if they'll play in vlc without any fuss.

what sort of discs are you using regularly in your pc in 2023?

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing

I saw people on twitter discussing whether they'd get the physical release of gta vi or not, as if the game's actually gonna be on the disc lol

Anyway I should have mentioned my two drives are from around the same time period. So although I briefly mention how bad stuff has become, the topic is really the quality of a product they put their name on vs that of one they were too embarrassed to put their name on

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing. Like there's something of a resurgence of records and cassettes and you can't get a decent one of either of those, they just stopped making them. So yeah probably happening with disks too, at least ones for computers

no environmentalization? i am dying

you may joke, but you'll just be peeling back the layers to reveal more horror

incredible amounts of dysfunction. i am enamored.

as much as i love this writeup, u have gotta give that company some credit for demolishing itself. this is fantastic

Oh I was making a joke pretending not to understand the problem, since that doesn't make a difference for what the problem actually was.

It was actually a google doc, but essentially the same problems had they used excel. Like merging cells across rows so I can't reorder the rows without getting blank cells.

In fact being on google docs made it worse, because they kept changing the list while i was trying to keep track of things on it

the end users are people who have no choice but to use this shit

I wonder if there are any end users or if this thing just kind of exists?

Seriously, its 2023, use a damn google doc!!

when the testing began, they opted not to use the issue tracker, but instead had an excel spreadsheet.

THIS IS USUALLY JUST A JOKE PEOPLE MAKE jesus lol

Oh, come on. It will only heat up the water part of your guts. What do you have to fear. How much of your guts are water anyway?

no it's worse, that shit will cook your guts, and all we can do is take the word of penny-pinching appliance manufacturers that the shielding they chose is sufficient

also when i was like 12 i watched a ton of tv programmes where they blow stuff up, and it turns out microwave ovens will do that to themselves if you decide to heat the wrong thing

its not the same type of radiation!!!!!

Yeah it did - I slept marvelously - though I'm surprised that I told you about that lady who wanted to cyber with me. lmao. I don't regret spilling the beans but I'm not that open usually. I had no idea she was attracted to me so it was a big adjustment.

sounds like it went well!

Yeah, but, like, I don't know what KonMari is except that it's about throwing things away and there was some racism brouahaha on social media back in the day and everyone had to take a strong stance on keeping the household neat and tidy.

it's basically KonMari but for people in your social media feeds

Why I wrote this: social media is a big part of contemporary lives yet I don't really see much in the way how to use it well as an individual, save for fear mongering and counter mongering. I remember /u/devtesla posting an article once on Rihanna's social media use which seemed pretty cool and aspirational and which was pretty much about embracing less.

i think it was like a decade and a half ago, like i remember philips had this big campaign advertising their bias lit tvs to the point that all the fake tvs at ikea had lights installed behind them.

TIL that bias lighting has a name and has actual benefits!!

Also I do indeed feel this satisfaction, thank you for sharing~