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still feed them SD cards and USB sticks, i guess we went from full meals to snacks
But they don’t go INSIDE, it’s not even like licking a lollipop!
But they don’t go INSIDE
Just the tip.
Technically you’re inserting the prolapsed female bits into the… nevermind.
… and that, children, is why computers are seahorses, actually.
… SD cards go fully inside.
Maybe if you’ve got a small SD card…
microSD, MAGNUM
They do not. They stick out so you can pull them or push them out.
There are different kinds of ports.
Some of them, card goes in beyond the flush line, some of them, they don’t.
Some of them have a spring, push in to eject mechanism, some don’t.
At least in my experience, the vast majority of sd slots fully take the card inside them, and you have to use a bit of fingernail to get the spring eject to work.
Right, but they still aren’t ENCLOSED like the other ones.
When a floppy goes in, you can’t touch it, and a dust cover comes down to… well prevent dust from coming in. You couldn’t see it, or touch it until you ejected it.
They are wholefully different situations, unless you’re a pedant who can’t quite understand nuance can make a massive difference. Especially when debating something as INSIDE, like a mouth.
Oh, well if you meant ENCLOSED, you maybe should have said that originally.
Also, no need to ask if I’m a pedant; we are multiple comments deep into a discussion about the form factors and designs for a specific type of hardware memory… it should be obvious that the entire discussion is pedantry.
Speaking of pedantry: “wholefully” is not a word, presumably you mean “wholly”.
more pedantry ensues
Anyway: enclosed and inside are not the same thing.
‘Wholly enclosed in/by’ is a more specific subcategory of ‘inside’, with additional conditions.
I can be completely inside a room, and the door to that room can be open, or closed, likewise with any common household item and a drawer or cabinet.
I can stick my thumb inside someone’s mouth, yet my thumb is not wholly enclosed by someone’s mouth unless they bite down very, very hard.
Its not that I don’t understand nuance, its that you’re bad at conveying said nuance with specificity, as you have to explain what you actually mean after having initially said something more vague… or just different.
I was already more specific with my contextual definition of ‘inside’, as being ‘beyond the flush line’ of the port… because your initial definition of ‘not inside’ was ‘some of the thing is sticking out’…
…which would be analagous to standing in a doorframe, with say most of my body in one room, but my arm reaching out into another room.
Now you’ve decided that to be inside of something actually means to be inside, as well as enclosed by a door, despite earlier giving a different meaning.
Oh, well if you meant ENCLOSED, you maybe should have said that originally.
Uhh… the original conversation topic was about that… I shouldn’t have to specify… if it needs to be specified, that means you missed the topic originally, so your aren’t being pedantic… you’re just a moron or you thought you could be smart by being pedantic, while Ignoring the entire topic title….
Being pedantic only works if you are A correct, and B don’t miss the obvious.
You did neither.
Just because you assume something can close without a door doesn’t make it inside. Using your example, parking a trailer with it sticking out, would make it not inside the garage anymore, because inside implies COMPLETELY. So without lips, it’s not a mouth, and can’t be inside. If you understood this, my comment wouldn’t need to specify this… since this is obvious once you understand the nuance of something being actually inside. Like the CD and VHS’ from the topic……………… and I added floppies because they’re identical, I called out SDs…. Since they are different from those 3…… why? The door making them actually inside! Do you need this explained still……?
You can’t be a pedant of you don’t actually understand the topic, you’re attempting to be smart, while being an idiot. The picture even specifies eating like a mouth! Does that not include enclosing inside with a door (lips).
Someone apparently doesn’t know what inside means….
within the boundaries or confines.
So if an arm is sticking out, it’s no longer by definition inside. It would be in it, but not inside of.
You aren’t a very good pedant, not even an okay one.
ALL SDs have a portion of their body sticking out so you can press it to release, or pull out. You’re incorrectly referring to these as completely inside. Which they aren’t, you missed e mark, and are doubling down on something you attributed the wrong definition too.
No sd card goes completely inside, if it did, you would need a mechanical release to eject it. And at that point there would likely be a dust cover to protect the moving parts from dust.
Something won’t ever go inside of something else without some sort of cover to protect said space. This applies to everything, so it’s hilarious a self described “pedant” missed this detail.
We found that smaller, more frequent meals were better for health and longevity.
I definitely do not miss VCR’s “eating” the tape.
Or cassettes. If you know the trick to rewind them, it is probably time to schedule a colonoscopy
Brandishing pencil
Don’t rush me. I’ve still got a few years.
The forbidden tagliatelle
As a toddler I apparently ruined a VHS player becsuse I fed it milk and cookies.
A lot of VCRs choked to death on sandwiches.
You wouldn’t download food, would you?
I mean, I might (does DoorDash count?)
Not having to dedicate a corner of my house to a physical warehouse for media is genuinely really nice.
I have an old vinyl collection and my toddler son is constantly trying to pull these 50 year old records off the walls to play with them. No idea how my parents dealt with me digging through their VHS catalog at every opportunity.
To each their own, but I miss not having that tactile browsing experience.
Growing up, my mum kept an actual catalogue of what was on each one of our home-recorded VHS tapes as well as their timestamps!
But back to OPs original point - it is strange how we have just normalised not obtaining our own copies of media as they’re provided to us. All the more reason to fully support pirating any materials you can (legally) access.
I miss not having that tactile browsing experience.
It’s easy to forget the space these things consumed, the way they degraded over time, and the expense of building a collection.
$15-30 a tape ($30-60 in modern dollars) relative to modern digital piracy that let’s me assemble a collection worth $1000s within a matter of hours for free.
Nevermind the difficulty of getting transitions (subs or dubs) from foreign releases. The Internet revolutionized fan edits and international releases, giving me access to everything from the Russian neo-noirs Night Watch / Day Watch to the Japanese anime Full Metal Alchemist years before they would have been available in the States in the 80s/90s.
There’s half a dozen short stories I read in high school with crazy premises that I’m always being reminded of
