I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.
All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.
Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.
Does having all of my music and video on a server next to my bookshelf count? The hdd is physical too…
If you own it and aren’t licensing it through a service, then that’s the next best thing to physical.
I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
Indeed. The CD is just a box the digital media comes in.
Define “own”
Possess.
No matter how you acquired it…
Aye aye captain o7
If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.
All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.
Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.
Counts