Even if you’re at home and do have a CD player it’s just not practical. Sure, if you only listen to a handful of CDs that’s workable.

But my current music collection would require 1400+ CDs … and good luck finding a specific song in that pile, even if you do know the exact album it’s on. It’s so much better to just have a searchable library.

You can still keep the CDs around for archive purposes, but to me CDs are no longer a viable option for actual media playback.

Which slot? Where?

The one shaped like the thing …

Format a drive? What’s that?

Depending on your setup it will even promt you do do this, all you have to do is click a couple of dialogs. Or lookup like a 5 step guide on the internet.

Your assuming a tech literacy that simply doesnt exisit in the general populace.

I think I’m making a very reasonable assumption about tech literacy here … yours might just be below the general populace.

Even if you don’t use a USB one, you basically just put the thing in the slot and start up the machine, maybe it needs some formatting. It’s not brain surgery. Again, it still easily beats dealing with unmanageable number of CDs.

Everyone old enough knows how to handle a CD.

Actually, more and more people are too young to know how to handle CDs these days.

Common sense.

But I didn’t say it … he did.

It does prevent that vast majority of murders.

And how come we survived the times before Law if murder was so rampant?

By carefully stepping over all the murdered people lying around.

I don’t consider HDDs physical media per se.

Ok. But I can touch mine … they seem very physical.

No one is handing down hard drives or selling them at yard sales

Because it’s easier to just copy the data to someone else’s drive, no need to physically hand it over. Also you can still keep the CDs after copying them to another medium.

Because its information overload

That seems more like a personal problem than a technical one.

It has no resale value. And if that HDD dies or you die and your family doesn’t know how to use it or how to decrypt it, its useless.

Have you looked at HDD prices recently? You can definitely resell them. The ones I bought 3 years ago now cost double the price! And all data should be backup anyway so you don’t lose anything on a disc failure. And the last point can be addressed by either just not encrypting your drive or leave the proper instructions behind.

All in all those are minor inconveniences compared to dealing with thousand of CDs.

Me neither, but I very much agree with his statement in this case.

The law against murder is the number one thing preventing murder

- Louis C.K

So yeah, we definitely need a police force to exist.

A decent music library would require thousands of CDs, it would be a huge hassle. Why deal with that when you can just copy all of that to one hard drive?

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Except for babies.

Firefox.