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  • Shikadi@wirebase.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldFirmware.
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    1 year ago

    I think you misunderstood what I was saying about SSDs. SSDs are not considered “Hard Drives” any more, colloquially a hard drive now specifically means platter disks, and therefore SSDs are not hard drives. I very much disagree with it, but that’s how language evolved. To me, they are hard drives, because they’re still hard storage media, but the general consensus is that all hard drives have disk platters.

    I’m not trying to prove that it was a bad name for 3 1/4" floppies, just that the name came from the casing, not the disk medium, and carried forward colloquially because they weren’t very different from their floppy predecessors


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    1 year ago

    You’re splitting hairs at this point. SSDs used to be a type of hard drive, but now people reserve the term hard drive for platter disks, even though the word came from hard vs. soft storage, which was meant to distinguish between removable and non removable storage.

    Zip discs aren’t called floppy despite the inside being the same as a floppy

    If you search online, it’s a debated topic, but if you were alive long enough ago there wasn’t always this debate. They were floppy because the thing in your hand was floppy, people only debated it when those were no longer commonplace. IBM didn’t even call the 3.5 one a floppy, everyone else did






  • Shikadi@wirebase.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldFirmware.
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    1 year ago

    I’m just telling you where the word comes from. It’s like floppy disks, the 3.5mm ones weren’t floppy but that’s still what we called them because they once were. Firmware used to be something you couldn’t easily change. It sits between the hardware and the software. What exactly would you call it if you think the term is bad?




  • Arch has been my go to for almost 10 years now, and it was one of my favorites for 5 years prior. These days I rarely have any issues from updating. I have to use Ubuntu for work and I dread every distribution upgrade. I got lucky and the last one worked on my work laptop, but usually something stupid breaks.

    I run arch on my laptop, my previous laptop, and my server. The install on my server is 7 years old now, and started life with an entirely different CPU brand. I won’t say I’ve never had to do any manual intervention, but the answer has been a Google search away pretty much every time.

    I use Arch BTW