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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Lol, wooosh. A disc drive is an optical drive like a Blu-ray, DVD, or cd drive. Go ahead,show me the built in disc drive on a steam deck and not a USB connected one.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Maybe this is an age thing? Not a lot of hardware comes with an optical drive anymore.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I haven't bought a game on optical media since 2003, that being Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Likewise... I haven't bought a game on optical media since the Wii.

    Hm... I've never bought PC software on a disc...!?

    And yet I have all these old Windows & Office & game discs... Man, hoarding tech is a weird habit.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Wait, do you guys still use optical disc drives on pc? What year is it? 2000?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Man, I hear "disc drive" & I think "hard disc drive". I've connected optical drives when USB boot wasn't supported, but the last time I voluntarily used a disc drive was to test an M-Data disc burned to silicon. But yeah, none of these new devices have a HDD or optical (or floppy disk, for that matter).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Oh, I obviously interpreted that as meaning a hard disk drive (which SSDs are still commonly referred to as HDDs) since we were discussing modern PCs. Many years ago external physical file transfer mostly transitied away from using actual spinning disks to USB storage, and even that has been mostly supplanted by network connected storage for several years.