I think I’m ok once I get them out. I just don’t even know what the hard drive looks like when I open it up. Yeah, I know, it’s easily googleable. So, that’s not the real problem. The problem is that I’m a lazy POS.
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My workstation (and it’s not really mine - work owns it) is a laptop and the only way that works for hours at a time for me is a separate keyboard and monitor.
I probably have 5 computer/laptops in the house (just for me), maybe 6, but that’s also because I don’t know what to do with old stuff. The oldest one might be 30 years old.
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A hard drive is like a record player except the record is a magnet
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I have a 2003 desktop in storage with a bunch of other stuff in the UK. I havent touched the storage for 11 years. I’m excited to dig it out eventually. Like a time capsule.
I had my stuff in storage for about 7 years. My last desktop was in there, mid 2000s vintage. I looked at trying to upgrade it but lol, I just built a new one, about 100x faster.
How many people at UP pay for storage? I’m not sure Devil or Rugby do. Depends what they mean by storage
I don’t have a storage unit any more. Most all my worldly stuff was in an 8x10 ft unit for a long time. I ended up paying more in rent than it was all worth and in the end I probably got rid of half of it. C’est la vie.
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Also depends on what you mean by pay for. I’m sure there is some storage cost baked into the price of an iphone.
Edit: I now see that we moved off of hard drives. LOL me.
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I got a Perixx Periboard-106 for work that I’m pretty happy with. As a Gen-X guy I’m a big fan of the retro 90’s layouts with clickey keys.
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Hot take. Self storage will bomb because millennials and younger DGAF about having stuff.
I hope so. I passed (or, more accurately, was too lazy to do due diligence) on a deal involving part ownership of a storage facility, and so far it seems like a real missed opportunity on my part.
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Or more people will keep things in storage while living in vans because they can’t afford houses.
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90’s was peak keyboard design. Everything these days just feels so cheap and flimsy.
Maybe if we were to continue on our current trajectory of free access to information but a lot of the things that we can watch and see and read do for free are almost certainly either going to cost a hell of a lot more than free in the future or wont be available at all.
If that happens, folks are going to long for whatever brought them happiness and that is going to circle around the 80-90s for people around our age.
In college, I heard the phrase “invest in your childhood, because when you get older, you’re going to want to re live it somehow and those with money are going to recreate it”.
We have stuff to GAF about having?
You can pry my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard from my cold dead hands.
My storage situation is a major life leak.
I moved to the Philippines from the UK for what was supposed to be 12 months. Work paid for storage for my stuff.
I left that job 2 years later, so have been paying for it myself for coming up to 10 years. Never been back.
Has some junk in there plus some priceless shit like photos and family stuff.
I’ve been back to the UK. But only for short trips and never had the time/energy to sort it out.
Planning a big europe trip sometime in next 12 months. Will finally sort it out. Throw the junk and ship anything worth keeping.
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where i live self storage seems to be the most thriving business around beyond chain dentists and large chain gas stations.
Storage units and payday loans share the same customers. They prey on financially vulnerable people. Storage units will do very well.