[kawsper]

The most irritating thing about the credit-card sized ones, are how they aren’t attached if you move around.

I like to be mobile, so I put some velcro ultra-mate on the back of my laptop, and also on my disk, then the disk can be attached and plugged in while I move around.

I also got a 90-degree USB-C cable for a more direct cable route.

[ssl-3]

Is this what we get when we stop making laptops with upgradeable internal storage?

[ZeroConcerns]

I just upgraded the internal storage of my Lenovo T14 (AMD, Gen6) to 4TB, and that took all of 5 minutes. And that laptop was definitely made in 2025, although I agree that consumer sentiment overwhelmingly favors models that are less convenient in that respect.

[zamadatix]

I still utilize large external drives on my laptop with upgradeable storage, so we get it either way.

[jack_tripper]

Not really an issue outside the Apple ecosystem and a few fringe tablet hybrids like from Microsoft. Vast majority of laptops sold today have standard SSDs you can upgrade.

[blfr]

What do you do with all that storage?

Here's the root partition (well, lvm) on a laptop I have been using for over three years now

    » df -hT ~
    Filesystem                Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ext4  869G  298G  527G  37% /

I do have an external drive for backups and another for drone footage but this is it. Everything else is either fast enough in the cloud or just here.

[kawsper]

I record video in raw, so it’s mainly dealing with video files during editing.

I want to see if I can move to prores in my import step, but I haven’t found a good workflow that allows for that.

[nextaccountic]

Rust compilation artifacts.

[saltcured]

This reminded me of my professor's laptop with a Ricochet wireless modem attached in much the same way back in the early/mid 1990s. That was an early wireless ISP prevalent in the SF Bay Area.