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minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoUSBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30. If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it. Back in the day it was a terrible loss though
minus-squareviking@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.
minus-squarekey@lemmy.keychat.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.
minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoI had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious. So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source) And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of. About $3.20. Source So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.
USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks
They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.
If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it.
Back in the day it was a terrible loss though
I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.
I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.
I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.
So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)
And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of.
About $3.20.
Source
So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.