Baffling. Its also becoming the norm to not even have a PC.
For real though, you think it’s hard fighting through bullshit application processes WITH A COMPUTER.
Now imagine doing it without a computer. From the library. Or trying to do it from a hotel business center. Or from your unreliable old phone.
That’s reality for so many people. I meet them every day. How do you even reliably pull a resume together, much less send hundreds of bullshit applications?
Oh that’s a nightmare.
There are no more first world countries. The USA itself is now a second world country, and has alienated all its allies.
You need just one EMP, and alle electronics are fried,
Thats not how it works. Once the emp field is gone things return to operation. They dont just fry like in Small Soldiers.
I have two hard drives. One to work and one back home.
I’ll tell you what’s hard, watching this show! Bwaah, haw haw haw!
I love Statler and Waldorf!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t keep important shit only on my phone.
But you probably wouldn’t ask for help factory resetting. I’m talking about non tech-savvy people who only have a phone
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.
8x 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 19 or so drives, and that’s not counting my work computer, or my partner’s computer.
Edit: fuck. Forgot I have a SATADOM in the server as well.
Edit Edit: also 2x 2TB USB HDDs for Lightroom backups.
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.
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 download steam games when i have multiple hundreds installed all the time!
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.
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.
the drives may die at any time from old age, better backup them soon if you can afford it.
Any naked pics of your mom?
Dad wasn’t like that, mostly old military records and research on shit he went through during the Vietnam era, where he signed up for Navy Reserves to avoid the draft.
Project 112/SHAD
I live in a 1st world country and i dont have a PC. Ive always just used my work laptop and a Playstation for the TV.
…that being said i am saving up to get a PC lol
And you’re on Lemmy!! You must be a rare bird
Still, you have a work laptop
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 a part of the PC master race ive been hearing so much about
You chose terrible time to get a new PC. Good luck, hope you manage.
Haha yeah ive noticed. I dont wanna sell my stocks or anything so its straight up saving pocket money like when i was a kid lol
Actual spinning disks, i have 7 in active service. SSD’s I have another 9 at a minimum . If we are talking ones that probably still work but are not in service, we are talking at least 25 HDD’s and 5-10 SSD’s . You could add at least 10 flash drives on there.
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.
If you got laid off how would you even apply for another job? Write up a resume on your phone? Sounds like a nightmare.
If I got laid off, how I type my resume would be the least of my worries.
… no I think that’s actually the first of your worries. You need to find a new job, which means you need to work on your resume immediately. This is something you should start thinking about now because we’re basically in a recession.
That’s insane to me.
I hate “computing” on tablets or phones, ick. Guess i’m an old fogey.
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 built-in storage (impressive, I know)
CCTV recorder: 1 x 500GB SSD
Portable drives: 2 x 1TB HDD, 1 x 3TB HDD, 1 x 4TB 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?
A lifetime subscription to OneDrive!
Nooooo!
Meanwhile, I just picked up 40tb of new drives to add to the ~30tb I currently have, between 3 desktops and 2 laptops.
Ah, the common lemming arrives!
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.
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.
I have 2, I suppose. One in my laptop, and one in my dead windows 10 desktop.
