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I’d say the part where the gp specifically said ssd invalidates your point in this particular situtation because a person worried about their budget wouldn’

by dgfitz 4y ago

I’d say the part where the gp specifically said ssd invalidates your point __in this particular situtation__ because a person worried about their budget wouldn’t splurge on an ssd. I also, after a cursory search, have found that the cheapest hard drives are around $25 USD. While $20 isn’t nothing, it also isn’t budget-breaking.

BoorishBears 4y ago
... what? You think someone stretching their money for an SSD somehow indicates that they're not worried about their budget? Here's a hint: if they had the budget and availability they'd just get a bigger SSD and not write that comment. - Obviously, due to some aspect of their circumstance, be it availability, cost, download speeds, etc. the size of the toolkit is problematic. I mean there's no intrinsic size for a development toolkit, but I don't know anyone who'd say 60GBs of data is a small development toolkit when as others have pointed out, there are older versions of the same Windows toolchains that still complete the same function and manage to take a fraction of the space...
- dgfitz 4y ago
  What I’m saying is the delta between a very cheap hdd and an ssd is 20 bucks. This whole assuming everyone is destitute is getting rather tiring.
  - BoorishBears 4y ago
    It's strange that I'm repeatedly explaining you don't even have to be destitute for it to be a problem, but your mind can only latch onto "at the store I have access to with almost everything one could ever want in stock, the price delta is 'only' $20" But yeah, seriously woe is you having to momentarily imagine some people are poor or have trouble getting access to tech. I'm from Ghana so I guess it's not as onerous to imagine people don't live the exact same life I do in the US.