Those were pretty cool. My dad had a single one in a hard plastic case, I want to say it was like 100 MB or something? I loved how chunky and solid it was.
I do feel like it'd be cool to have a storage medium that at least feels like that again. Like sliding a big hot-swappable SATA SSD into a slot and getting a satisfying "kaCHUNK" and a little busy light.
For one, I'm just happy to see a hardware stat that isn't rapidly and constantly enlarging for no other reason than being incrementally released to pressure constant sales.
I mean it's a small thing, but neat! I did wonder why cache sizes tended to stay small even between generations.
Something I was able to do with my old OnePlus 3 phone, was use it as a Linux USB. It was a pretty neat trick!
It was really convenient to just snag a work laptop and boot it into Puppy Linux (which lives entirely in RAM) to browse around and such without my job looking too closely and being creepy about it.
Disclaimer
IT departments are various kinds of chill, scrutinizing, lazy, or pathologically psycho, YMMV greatly. Try at your own risk. Lol
Right along with...
Substancefreedeez...
Substance Free Deez NUTZ !!!
But seriously I'm still pissed about that one. Screw Adobe. So much.
I'd argue art is a communication medium. You can communicate minimally, or you can communicate with vast detail, both require skill.
Art museums are full of work that says nothing, but passed a few gatekeepers with clout keys or shock value.
Skilled rendering with nothing to say is as unimpressive as deep ideas communicated by random spatter. The viewer isn't getting anything from it, no matter how trendy their turtleneck is.
I take a bit of issue with this idea that "the amount of skill involved doesn't matter", because that's the exact logic used to say artists shouldn't be able to afford a living, or could be replaced by algorithms.
(And yet we easily spot and mock visually exciting Ai renderings for how soulless and empty they are.)
Yes, we've seen impressive high-skill ultra-real pencil renderings that, in the end could sadly be replaced by a photograph, because there was no interpretation involved.
And we've seen awards presented for sticking bananas on walls as a "critique of modern society."
Art is a skill. It's a hard skill, because it's not a solitary pursuit solely anchored in visual perfection. If nobody can understand or appreciate your point, it falls apart.
"This is how the world ends: Not with a bang, but with frivelously cast ironic votes because lols."
How I bet that call went:
"Agent Krasnov speaking, may I take your order?"
I almost wonder if they intentionally screw that sort of thing up so they're not "ripping off" real soldiers' customs.
... But I'm being way too optimistic I think LOL.
There's so much like this in media where I'm like "You could have just asked? Like so many people could have happily walked you through making this authentic!!"
Not gonna lie I wouldn't be surprised if there's an Eastern European knockoff version where that's the exact plot. Lol
THIS. And the trope is always about some ultra popular game that the entire world is obsessed with, too.
I mean yeah it might even be like that if knowing the game was the only method of discovery but, pah! Hardcore fans? They do RAM dumps and decompiles and all kinds of wacky analysis to find obscure stuff, and then they post it in the "trivia" section on a wiki and the thing hasn't even been out a year! Lol
No paper jams ever unless it is funny or plot relevant.
"PC load letter!? Agh!"
"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta..."
Wow. Completely nailed it, unfortunately.
Do you also start to get weary of how they're always dead-on when it comes to pessimistic predictions? :(