Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it’s still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.

And because of that, it’s no wonder internet isn’t expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.

  • everett@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    I don’t doubt it exists, but I’m kind of curious about workflows that still involve burning optical media in 2024.

    • FindME@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orgEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I still see it in the courts, both criminal and civil. It seems to make more of an impact on judges and juries, because all the lawyers love whipping out the cd and sticking it in the ancient little laptop they plug into the tv on the cart like the teacher rolled out in the 80s and 90s.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        its still better in a sense. usb storage devices all have an internal “mini computer” that run their own code and have access to the USB bus of the connected computer, with the ability to even present themselves as a keyboard, a network adapter or a lot of other things. that’s not a good idea to plug in to the hospital computer after it was given to the patient, and it is also not the best idea to just plug these in at home.

        optical media on the other hand does not store code that is executed by the drive.

        the problem is that pendrives have a firmware, and too much capabilities, even when not accounting for errors in hardware and code that participates in making it work. some of them (maybe most?) is even writable with the right tools, and the computer’s user doesn’t even need to know that it’s happening.
        the most famous web browser that allows any website access to your USB devices with just 1 or 2 clicks makes this even worse.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Secure networks have their head in their ass about flash media. So, discs.

      Edit: For more technical reasons see what ReversalHatchery wrote further down