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> I use USB sticks semi regularly What do you use it for, is it something dropbox or others cannot do?
by sumedh 8y ago
> I use USB sticks semi regularly
What do you use it for, is it something dropbox or others cannot do?
- mirimir 8y agoBandwidth is much greater.
- sumedh 8y agoYes but I am pretty sure there very few people who need so much bandwidth and you can always buy a usb c flash drive.
- mirimir 8y agoTrue, I guess. And I'm one of them. Sometimes I use numerous Linux, Windows or macOS VMs for testing stuff. At 5-10GB per VM, that's way too much for my system array. So I use LUKS-encrypted HDDs and SSDs via USB. With my pitiful uplink, cloud storage for hundreds of GB would be unworkable. And yes, I could use USB-C.
- likeclockwork 8y agoWhen did the sneakernet become a foreign concept to hackers?
- copperx 8y agoAround 1990.
- kalleboo 8y agoI had stopped using floppy disks completely by high school. The reliability of floppies of that era was so poor that despite only having 56K at home, I'd start an FTP upload of my documents to my free 20 MB dialup ISP space when I left for school and by the time I arrived they were all safely there.