Tell me you are American, with out telling me you are American....
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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So... Its the same? Lmao
We're almost there...
That would be amazing! You could store the entire 450TB of ebooks in annas-archive on 4 of those disks!!!
I so wish we had some affordable, high-density storage technology that we could record and then forget it in the attic for 20 years.
M-Disc exists?
100GB max per disc isn't that high density, nor are they particularly affordable per GB.
That is just a hard drive with extra steps
I mean there's magnetic tape. It's not, like, usable. But it's also none too volatile if stored properly.
Yeah but I don't have a climate controlled storage for it
I mean, you can make a smallish one as long as you don't live anywhere that gets too hot or cold.
Whats the read write speed?
They don't want us (consumers) to own anything. The world will turn up and down before this gets released to consumers.
A big part of the problem is that most consumers don't want to own things either. Subscriptions are exactly what too many people want.
I think even that goes back around to business interests. We can't store that many physical copies in shrinking, expensive housing. Digital purchasable media is somehow just as expensive despite having tiny manufacturing and logistical costs, on top of being unreliable due to DRM.
Subscriptions so far seemed like a better value proposition but between splitting and vanishing libraries, increasing prices and the addition of ads, that's becoming more questionable. Even average people aren't so thrilled of having to subscribe to a dozen different services to watch, listen and play what they want.
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