SD Cards
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D2 is looking to replace her laptop (as I posted in another thread). She'll need a hub since the MacBook Air only has 2 USB-C ports, one of which is used for power (duh).
Looking at Amazon, I see that many USB hubs have slots for an SD card.
I don't remember the last time I used an SD card. I use USB sticks. What are the advantages of an SD card, other than physical size?
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Compatibility, ease, and speed of data transfer.
For people with a discrete digital camera or camcorder that is not an iOS device, chances are that camera/camcorder uses SD card for storage. It’s usually faster and more convenient to let the Mac read directly from the SD card than to read indirectly through some USB cable connected to the camera/camcorder.
You can also use SD card to transfer massive amounts of data between a computer and an Android smartphone or tablet faster than using a USB cable.
A photographer can just carry extra SD cards to a shoot and just swap SD cards rather than worry about his camera getting “full,” then just deal with the SD cards later, no need to connect the camera to the computer.
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And about the time you get everything on SD cards, storage media will change again.
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The general direction is to push the typical consumers to use cloud storage. Once you are on cloud storage, you stop worrying about changing or keeping up with physical storage media standards. For example, for people who take home videos:
Betamax/VHS, Hi-8/8mm, miniDV, flash/SD card, “cloud”
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The general direction is to push the typical consumers to use cloud storage. Once you are on cloud storage, you stop worrying about changing or keeping up with physical storage media standards. For example, for people who take home videos:
Betamax/VHS, Hi-8/8mm, miniDV, flash/SD card, “cloud”
Ahd then you no longer own your own stuff.
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I don’t have a hub for my MacBook Air.
I think of SD as temporary storage, Used for cameras and my son’s Nintendo switch mini
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@Jolly Yes, the definition of ownership becomes murkier once you are detached from physical possession. Same problem with the money you put in the bank. It comes down to faith in the system, that the cloud companies will keep honoring your “ownership” of “your” data, that the banks will keep honoring your “ownership” of “your” money.
Legislatively the states have many good laws to keep the bank honoring your ownership of your money. The legal framework for data ownership still need a lot of work.
In the meantime, the mantra for folks who have the technical proficiency to understand the issue is to keep local copies and backup, backup, backup.
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@Jolly Yes, the definition of ownership becomes murkier once you are detached from physical possession. Same problem with the money you put in the bank. It comes down to faith in the system, that the cloud companies will keep honoring your “ownership” of “your” data, that the banks will keep honoring your “ownership” of “your” money.
Legislatively the states have many good laws to keep the bank honoring your ownership of your money. The legal framework for data ownership still need a lot of work.
In the meantime, the mantra for folks who have the technical proficiency to understand the issue is to keep local copies and backup, backup, backup.
I have no faith in much of the cloud. The cloud has already proven itself to be a malevolent host and no respecter of ownership.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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The general direction is to push the typical consumers to use cloud storage. Once you are on cloud storage, you stop worrying about changing or keeping up with physical storage media standards. For example, for people who take home videos:
Betamax/VHS, Hi-8/8mm, miniDV, flash/SD card, “cloud”
Ahd then you no longer own your own stuff.
You never really owned that content when you realized you had to continue to re buy it in a useable format. Record, reel to real, 8 track, cassette, CD... now I can access all of it and more much cheaper on Spotify.
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I have no faith in much of the cloud. The cloud has already proven itself to be a malevolent host and no respecter of ownership.
No problem, man, you do you. There are still folks who keep their money in cookie jars and under their mattresses rather than put it in the bank. These acts ain’t hurting nobody else.
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I heard that when Microsoft introduced a Chinese version of Windows, within a very short time it had been hacked and was then available for "free" in China.
Once everything is in the cloud, the Chinese and others will not be able to get stuff for "free" by hacking, and millions will be forced to pay for software located only in the cloud.I think that the above is true, but not totally sure. Makes some sense, though.
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I have no faith in much of the cloud. The cloud has already proven itself to be a malevolent host and no respecter of ownership.
No problem, man, you do you. There are still folks who keep their money in cookie jars and under their mattresses rather than put it in the bank. These acts ain’t hurting nobody else.
Ax, old buddy. You put your money in a. . . bank??
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I heard that when Microsoft introduced a Chinese version of Windows, within a very short time it had been hacked and was then available for "free" in China.
Once everything is in the cloud, the Chinese and others will not be able to get stuff for "free" by hacking, and millions will be forced to pay for software located only in the cloud.I think that the above is true, but not totally sure. Makes some sense, though.
And just this week, didn't the Chines gack the sugar out of a Microsoft product?
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I have no faith in much of the cloud. The cloud has already proven itself to be a malevolent host and no respecter of ownership.
No problem, man, you do you. There are still folks who keep their money in cookie jars and under their mattresses rather than put it in the bank. These acts ain’t hurting nobody else.
Telk you what I can do...If the cloud goes away tomorrow and takes the banks with it, I can still keep my family warm, safe and fed.
Can you do the same?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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My first experience with SD cards is using them in my drones.
For me, it's just baffling how so much video can be stored on such a tiny thing. An amazing step in technology, before everything goes into the cloud (or "in" the cloud).I'm appropriately paranoid of dropping the card on a windy day, and seeing it scurry away bouncing across the parking lot in the breeze while I try to trap it with my cane while screaming for help while stumbling half bent-over and maintaining my chase for 20 yards or more while little kids point and laugh and then entire families are pointing and laughing and I finally fall over completely exhausted and throw my cane the last few yards in a feeble attempt to get lucky, little bastards still laughing along with their asshole parents.
Guess how I know this stuff. (No, Ax, I don't really mean you should take the time to take your best guess, but I guess you can if you want, free speech and all that nonsense)
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Telk you what I can do...If the cloud goes away tomorrow and takes the banks with it, I can still keep my family warm, safe and fed.
Can you do the same?
Sure. It reads like you also put your money in the banks, which is fine.
Notice we haven't even get into what it means to "own" stocks and bonds yet. Let me know when you discuss the meaning of "ownership" when it comes to stocks and bonds.
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Telk you what I can do...If the cloud goes away tomorrow and takes the banks with it, I can still keep my family warm, safe and fed.
Can you do the same?
Sure. It reads like you also put your money in the banks, which is fine.
Notice we haven't even get into what it means to "own" stocks and bonds yet. Let me know when you discuss the meaning of "ownership" when it comes to stocks and bonds.
Yeah, yeah...You want to go into the nobody owns actual paper shares argument. The stocks can go away, I can still feed my family. And no, all my money is not in the bank.
Again, if the cloud goes away tomorrow, can you keep your family warm, fed and safe?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
Warning: I post things that interest me. Read and comment at your own discretion.
