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Physical Media Is Dead, Long Live Physical Media (hackaday.com)
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[–] Rooty 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Physical media is clunky and obsolete, you can store the contents of an entire 90s era video store on a cigarette pack sized device nowadays. The solution to streamer wars is to stop pussyfooting around and just pirate shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

*An SSD the size of a stick of gum

[–] amorpheus 2 points 1 day ago

I have insisted on physical media for my stuff since the dawn of MP3's - in the form of hard disk drives. That's the physical media MVP in my book.