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Reminder that Chireiden is the bootleg SDM. Reminder that SA is a shitty bootleg of EoSD. Reminder that SAfags are just reskinned EoSDfags but somehow even more cancerous.

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>They are cheap but not exactly the best we have
What other options, then? Flash storage and optical disks are equally impermanent.

>Yes, and a meteor could hit you in the head tomorrow morning
That's very different. That's one astronomically small chance. I'm talking about a large number of astronomically small chances. I'll give you an example similar to what I said: would it be likely for me to get run over in my lifetime if there's a 0.0005% chance I get run over every time I cross the street and I crossed the street 100 000 times in my life? Computing the chance of this gives me a whopping 40% chance of getting run over. Even if the chances were low, I have a 40% chance of getting run over once, and getting run over once is enough to damage someone.

Going back to file transfer, even if the chance of a unit of transfer being corrupted is very small, if you have enough of them occurring over a given transfer, there's a significant chance that they might occur. In the case of file types like executables, there are plenty of places where the corruption could occur that would lead to a catastrophic failure. What's worse, you only need it to happen ONCE.

The goalposts have not been moved. You raised quite boldly that "digital files don't degrade" and I've challenged that assertion by showing you that they do. If you're going to call the price people are willing to pay for this comic "stupid", you better have a better justification than this.