• letsgo@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

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      I don’t know about HDDs but for SSDs they hit a very low price last September 2023, and the companies decided to cut production so the prices go up again. It worked, today SSD drives are more expensive than last year. I bet they did something similar to the HDD, but it’s only hypothetical.

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    18 days ago

    finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌

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    18 days ago

    ‘Chineese startup nobody has heard of.’

    …am… I racist for immediately thinking scam? Like… they shoved a couple thumb drives in a fancy case level of scam?

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      18 days ago

      At this point, yeah, a bit. But it is a common racism to have right now, and the first step on the path to getting rid of it is knowing you have it.

      Plus, the headline is really leading in that direction too, the article itself makes it pretty clear that it is a real, reputable product. Their wording in the headline is technically correct, they specifically call it a company “you’ve likely never encountered” rather than “noone has heard of”, the company has already been at the forefront before and announced that they would be again in 2025, this is fulfilling that promise.

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      18 days ago

      I would say it’s bad because the only reason low quality products exist from China is because there is a company ordering them, typically American. All of our expensive tech comes from there any you haven’t heard of most of those companies

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      startup nobody has heard of

      There, now that sentence isn’t racist because that sounds like a scam without any additional details.

      But it is a startup you’ve probably never encountered, which is saying more about them not being known outside of their home country which is a bit different.

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      18 days ago

      No no its just sad reality that china is build on scam. Its a core value in their society, sadly

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        18 days ago

        Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it “a core value in their society” is a bit racist.

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          No. It really is. Since the cultural Revolution, china has lost its manners. Gutter Oil, tofu drag, taking a whole “all you can eat” for yourself and ruining it with paper and spices for others, demanding money from a newly wed couple (originally it is that you give a few a red envelope with money. People close to you) eventhough you dont have anything to do with them, fake meat, glue instead of milk, fake tofu (its stirofome if you are lucky) and i can count more. Shooting birds with a slingshot, when in japan, carving spiritual shrines and cutting down/damaging/shaking off the cherry blossom trees

          Its so so sad.

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      No because Chinese isn’t a race its a nationality. If you used one of the races there like Han The predominate race there. than yes it would be racist. The Han are in fact often refereed to has the real Chinese. But china is made up of many races not just the one.

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        Okay bud Chinese 99.999999999% of the time refers to Han. If you ask a Chinese person they will say 中国人, Chinese. Yes Han is the proper nomenclature but no Chinese person would make this argument.

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          I guess that would depend on whether you think of the country or a race when you think china. I think of the country and not the race. bud.

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          I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.

          (but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

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    18 days ago

    Regardless of where it’s made hopefully it brings down the price of drives for the rest of us.

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    18 days ago

    can I put this thing in a laptop or is it made for a bigger computer like a desktop?