I read the comments properly. Laptops are modular where you can slap any old disc drive in them, I have one in my basement right now where I can do exactly that. If I couldn’t swap it easily without taking apart the laptop, I can easily open the laptop and attach it to the board as well, something that I can’t do with modern locked tight phones without specialized tools. Last resort would be using USB and an external drive. Tech literacy is dead when people are arguing against having a 3.5mm jack and don’t know that you can open a laptop with a screwdriver.
When was the last time you saw an even semi-modern laptop? There’s no space to jam disc-drives in them and you’d have to cut the body for the slot if there was no option to switch out part of it for something that had one. I frickin’ love modifying stuff and tinkering but that’s just not a reasonable expectation to have for everyone.
I am aware of how to open a laptop, I even have all the bits to do it, I’m just not living in the early 2000s and understand that my needs and how I use stuff are not the only valid ways.
Yes, tech literacy had a small window and now we’re all dumb again but I don’t think it’s why you think it is.
I read the comments properly. Laptops are modular where you can slap any old disc drive in them, I have one in my basement right now where I can do exactly that. If I couldn’t swap it easily without taking apart the laptop, I can easily open the laptop and attach it to the board as well, something that I can’t do with modern locked tight phones without specialized tools. Last resort would be using USB and an external drive. Tech literacy is dead when people are arguing against having a 3.5mm jack and don’t know that you can open a laptop with a screwdriver.
When was the last time you saw an even semi-modern laptop? There’s no space to jam disc-drives in them and you’d have to cut the body for the slot if there was no option to switch out part of it for something that had one. I frickin’ love modifying stuff and tinkering but that’s just not a reasonable expectation to have for everyone.
I am aware of how to open a laptop, I even have all the bits to do it, I’m just not living in the early 2000s and understand that my needs and how I use stuff are not the only valid ways.
Yes, tech literacy had a small window and now we’re all dumb again but I don’t think it’s why you think it is.