Ugh. MS-DOS 2.0-5.0 inclusive didn’t have a defrag tool. It was introduced with dos 6. While it could be helpful, the fact that we went more than a decade without a defrag tool as part of DOS reinforces just how optional it was/is.
The benefit of defragging was that it would be marginally faster to read a file that was stored contiguously instead of in pieces. There was the side benefit as well that it was easier to recover data that wasn’t fragmented.
I’m not aware of any legitimate ‘Problems’ caused by simple fragmentation itself. That tech guy was not just wrong in his behaviour, but also in his technical knowledge. What an ass.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plansEnglish
2·2 days agoI recently went about setting up an account with an email provider that purely provides mail. Very happy with them so far, the only thing they don’t do that I do use with my free legacy gapps is Google Drive.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)English
1·5 days agoAnd they don’t even store original quality
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone got any informative YouTube channels that DON’T use AI slop?
1·2 months agoI noticed an increase in the variety of onscreen talent and more animatics, but I haven’t noticed a decrease in the production value
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone got any informative YouTube channels that DON’T use AI slop?
3·2 months agoI’m a big fan of the b1m.
https://youtu.be/EruSZNI4th4 <- tunnel under the Faroe islands & world’s only undersea roundabout
Of course, the men’s room is just always covered in urine. Old men and young kids miss, even people with aim splash back out of the toilet enough to get it on the walls/floor/under the urinals.
I don’t know what happened to them, but it used to be where I live that the bathroom would have floor-to-belly-height urinals and the entire bathroom floor would be gently sloped towards them, and the walls would be tiled to the same height.
This meant that cleanup could be done by blasting everything with industrial detergent/disinfectant and literally power washing it all into the urinal drains. Now in New construction I only see the wall mounted urinals, and a floor drain in the middle to meet code requirements, but often the cleaners don’t know that they have to put water into that drain to prevent it evaporating out and letting sewer gasses flow into the room (ew.)Overall a downgrade for both staff and visitors.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?
14·3 months agoI think that mergers like this only ever benefit those who are responsible for taking the money out of the companies beforehand.
I believe that there has never been a merger of two near equally terrible companies that has ever benefited the consumers or the general public. It is almost always geared to getting a small number of investors paid.

I’m guessing dummy.bin is a zerofile?