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		201984 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming... It's not doing nothing. It's caching frequently accessed files on my filesystem, which generally speeds everything up especially with HDDs. Why should someone instead waste that on a needlessly bloated music player?

bslaq 3 months ago [–]

…HDDs?

201984 3 months ago | [–]

Hard disk drive

bslaq 3 months ago | | [–]

I don’t think it’s possible to find computers selling today with one of those.

kiddico 3 months ago | | | [–]

If you open one of those bad boys up you'll find you can swap out and even add parts.

201984 3 months ago | | | [–]

Regardless, RAM for disk cache is still useful on SSDs and my point still stands.

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