I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      When I die and my laptop gets put into a box and shoved in a dusty corner forgotten for generations I want my descendant to be able to open it in the year 3000 and see all the tabs I had open when I died.

      • WagesOf
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        122 years ago

        “wow, that’s a lot of tabs” - aliens at the under water blue fairy

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Honestly the time you can put your laptop to sleep is the least interesting part, but it’s hard the explain the other benefits to regular users

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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        22 years ago

        I kind of assumed there must be some other motive at play here, sounds like it was something a tech writer was just fumbling.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Such retention times are often probabilistic (ie. some percentage of bits have retained their proper value) and an “up to” value, which is negatively influenced by such things as the storage temperature and background radiation.

      In practice, it might be that the only useful retention time is only a small digit number of years.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Speak for yourself, fellow human. When I go into deep sleep mode, sometimes I forget to set auto wake routine and wake up years later.