Toot by JamminJerryJamminJerry (mastodon.stickbear.me)

@FreakyFwoof I should be specific. What I mean by "external drive" is a portable drive that connects via USB, not one that's essentially a spinning disk inside a case with a power supply. Start learning to live with the portable drives now, because sooner rather than later you will end up with a computer with a small SD drive inside and your Dropbox ETC. will not fit on this drive so you'll need to store it somewhere else. And you need to get used to the friction this will add to your computing before you're forced to.

Toot by ink and yarnink and yarn (sunny.garden)

@theotherbrook You can be as grumpy as you like, because I'm sorry but new computers and this whole world where your storage is essentially an SD card soldered onto the motherboard and LLMs with a shiny new label are shoved down your throat at every turn because it can't just be "they're good at a few things but we should wait before we turn everything over to them" sucks.