• Snot Flickerman
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    7 days ago

    Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

    A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

    • downpunxx
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      117 days ago

      all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media

    • @0x0@programming.dev
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      25 days ago

      Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

      Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

      A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

      What’s the point of having inaccessible data?

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      56 days ago

      No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

      Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

      In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.