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@NanoRaptor The micro sd to standard sd card adapters should have always been printed like that ;)
@billgoats I do have one! UV inkjet printer joy.

@NanoRaptor @billgoats those should just be a commercial item, together with microSD cards as well (I know there are stickers, I need to print some)

really wished for a wrigley gum MemoryStick back in the day

the MemoryStick is still my favourite human friendly form factor, thin, but easy to hold and not likely to be lost

@helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

I'm sad we never got a truly ubiquitous portable storage format to replace floppy disks.

CD-RW?s and DVD[+-]RW?s (and DVD-RAMs) kinda-sorta did for a while, but they were never as flexible as floppies, zips, or flash drives.

Then flash drives reigned supreme, but using them was always a little awkward, like:

10 ATTEMPT INSERT 20 FLIP DEVICE 30 GOTO 10

...and there never was a standard form factor, nor was there ever the sense of having a "drive" that you plugged into, but just a spare USB port.

I never had an actual memory stick, nor loved the SONY proprietariness and vendor lock-in, but the form factor was quite nice.

I [o]pined on that subject [here] ;)

I miss the days of ubiquitous portable data storage

@rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats I don’t trust µSD cards with data. From experience.

Especially when you have to use one of the converters.

CF cards are nice(r).

@mirabilos @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

What about regular SD?

That was kind of the perfect size.

[MicroSD is just kinda nuts, though] 🤣

R.L. Dane 🍵 (@[email protected])

STOP USING MICRO SD - Data Storage wasn't supposed to be swallowable - What is even the point of having a disk you could hide under a loose fingernail? - With the approximate surface area of, I don't know, a molecule, how in the world is heat supposed to be dissipated?? - Flash media supports incredible storage densities, but that doesn't mean you have to create a storage format that takes up the same volume of a drop of water! - Regular SD was the PERFECT size!! THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS!!!! cc: @amin

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@rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats I think these only exist for up to a GiB or two, and are very rare. If you order one, you generally get a µSD in a (bad) converter instead.

@mirabilos @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

There are some full SD cards aimed at photographers that are available still. There's a premium, though.

@rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats they’d also likely suffer with normal filesystem use