• tiramichu@lemm.ee
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    1 年前

    I use them for:

    • Music in my car
    • Moving files to my locked-down work PC
    • The (read only) OS drives for my Unraid NAS servers
    • Media for my parents to watch when they are away on vacation and can plug it into a hotel TV
    • General sneakernetting of large files

    They definitely don’t get as much use as before, but I’m still using them.

    Edit: please don’t downvote the person above me, they are only saying what is true for them :)

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      1 年前

      Also in a business context you need them to play displays on screens at conferences usually.

      And students I imagine will frequently use them to print documents at the library, or design students at the print shop

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        In my experience all of this has been done wirelessly for several years.

        The risk of malware means you aren’t allowed to plug in sticks. For business use you share a document or wirelessly connect to a display.

        In fact our local library didn’t USB sticks eight years ago when I was researching our family tree.

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          Depends. on a 3x3 booth setup with just a screen on a pole with no connectivity - you don’t want to run a cable to a laptop because you’re using the table for product demos

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            Don’t mean this rudely, struggling to find a way that doesn’t sound condescending because I know things can be different in different regions. Didn’t realise that still happened.

            • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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              I think it “just depends” - not trying to dox myself here but at cloud provider conference at Caesars forum, las vegas in summer of last year this was the setup we had.