re: #439 darthstar

By the way, I miss the floppy and its shiny successor, the CD-ROM. Nobody even says ROM anymore. Most kids today probably don’t even know what an A: drive is. How fast is your CPU? How big is your hard drive? What do you mean you don’t have a hard drive? The computer I got my wife last year has a 20GB solid state drive in it. Yes, only 20. Why? Because dropbox, googledrive, box.com, etc. make local storage irrelevant. Thumb drives? Who needs ‘em?

One of these days a big solar flare is going to fry a few of our satellites and we’ll all be standing around with our dicks in our hands wondering how to boil water.

And as things such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and necessary internet connectivity continue to be pushed, it leaves areas like mine as computing deserts. (No WiFi, no cell service.)

A tablet computer or one which requires using “the cloud” to store your stuff is worthless here, just an expensive piece of plastic and wire.

I also much prefer keeping my stuff at home rather than some nebulous cloud.

It would be nice if some politicians somewhere, I don’t know, maybe Washington, were to push for affordable internet service for the whole country rather than just the parts they like.

Also, get off my lawn.