I’m not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it’s probably more than the number of persons I can fit.
Automation has truly ruined online shopping. These days you can order from a respectable brandname on a big company website and find out later the seller is actually nanchangshishengyuedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi and they sent you a completely different product than advertised.
I remember back in 2013 I built a PC for my wife, and in 2014 one for myself. At that point, buying something online still felt a bit odd. It was reserved for specialty items, shipping would often take at least 2 weeks, or even 6 weeks depending on where it was coming from. I was no stranger to purchasing online, but brick-and-mortar stores with real stock still existed and could get me what I purchased much more quickly.
I remember being so impressed with Newegg’s website. It made it so easy to build a computer and make sure everything was compatible. It was really easy to compare different options. The filter system was intuitive and comprehensive. I remember thinking “wow this is a perfect shopping experience. The future has arrived”.
I went to build my next PC in 2019, and dear Satan was it so much worse. I had heard about Newegg getting bought out by a larger company in 2016, and it showed. They opened it up to 3rd party sellers. The filters got clogged with garbage and don’t seem to work properly anymore. The sort function became a joke. The UI got rearranged to be less intuitive. I think they purposefylly wanted to make a worse shopping experience to make people frustrated, to get them to give up on looking for deals and pay a bit extra just to be done with it. I ended up having to go to a 3rd party website (PCPartPicker) to figure out what I needed and where to get it. And some of those parts I had to order on eBay (some even from Newegg’s eBay account which is just… Why are we doing this?), some on Amazon or Best Buy. And it’s only gotten worse since.
This same experience has happened everywhere. Just this morning my wife was checking out Culture Hustle to see if they have any interesting new paints and commented on how much worse the website was now than when we last used it a few years ago.
This may make me sound like an old curmudgeon yelling at clouds, but I think the Internet peaked a while ago. There are arguments over exactly when, but sometime between 2008-2016. I remember in 2012 in talking to my fellow students about how Google search results were getting worse.
Yeah, I remember a long time ago thinking Linkedin was useful and had some good articles. Now its gross.
It’s weird how Amazon kind of pushed every online store into becoming eBay (without the bidding… Do people still use eBay for auctions?)
The bidding is actually the main reason I never once used eBay but do use regular online store like Amazon.
Every electronic I own is basically from an eBay auction. It’s a great place to buy from, their buyer protection is borderline too good… not such a great place to sell on. Although, what are you going to do, go to their other big competitors?..
So you use the actual auctions, and not just “buy it now”?
I remember back in the day when all they had were auctions, it was novel and cool. Then they added “buy it now” and the site slowly turned into Amazon.
95% of the time I do the auctions. Only do buyitnow if no other options, which isn’t super common. I have got Ipads for 30-50 that still have a good battery even after using them for a couple years. A $50 laptop that does anything you would normally want a laptop to do. 8 kindles for $45 of which I sold 4 of them to my aunt for $45 to sell at a flea market and I kept and gave away the other four. 3 gallons of Legos for like $10… the list just keeps going.
My wife ordered a bunch of clothes off Amazon for the kids, they came out of the package still in their vacuum packed Chinese shipping bag.
The only saving grace is If they don’t fit they’re easily returnable. We probably could have ordered them from Alibaba for pennies on the dollar, But waited 6 weeks and assumed all the risk of a nearly impossible return.
Surprised nobody has linked this one yet:
Did it ever actually get made? I remember this.
Coming out any minute now: https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/
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640 kilochickens ought to be enough for anybody.
Only if you eat fewer than 20 chickens per day.
I would hope no individual eats 20 chickens a day. Like damn that’s a lot of chicken.
I wouldn’t put it beyond some people to only use a single part (say only the wings) and throw away the rest.
1 chickens, please!
Do you have enough hard drive for it?
Sadly, yes.
I’ll take 2 1 chickens plz.
Yeah, you definitely don’t want to get one that only holds 1 chicken. The extra money is worth it to hold 1 chickens.
How many chickens can the 0 TB drive store, I wonder?
No no, that’s 0 Tuberculosis.
Which language has a word/abbreviation that can translate as either chicken or something to do with data storage?
Maybe after a bunch of translations you could get there
I don’t understand your question. You don’t use chickens as a measurement of file size?
Next you’ll tell me you don’t describe a gigachicken as a person!
Only if plucked.
Plato in shambles
There’s a huge difference between chicken^4 vs chickens^4. Approximately (✓chick/4)π
Yo, give me the hard drive that fits another bard drive. I’ll load a hard drive onto the hard drive in my hard drive so I can load a hard drive on it.
Jo dawg
I heard you like hard drives …
It’s for the Chicken PDF, silly!
Hmm, that loads a blank page for me and searching online for “chicken PDF” returns a lot of unrelated stuff.
Still, I’ve heard a PDF can be the size of Britain or something like that. It makes sense that you could only fit a single one (or perhaps single ones) on your drive.
This is clearly more than one chicken.
My knowledge of grammar is insufficient to determine whether it is more than one chickens.
Sizes:
- 8
- XL
- Dennis
- Small
- 0
- O
- XXM
- Panamax
- 500GiB
Strangely (to me), most of the comments I’ve seen have been focused on the chickens, which are pretty funny; however, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone comment on the “1 person,” which - to me - is more concerning. Though if “Dennis” is a person (rather than a menace), perhaps that mitigates my concerns.
I was actually citing Homestar Runner with Dennis.
“Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. Ye see a FLASK. Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.”
Also, Extra Extra Medium.
One chicken is equal to 1,024 Bacockobytes of data (more commonly known as simply a ‘bacock’)
Mine say 256 ertuherrrrs. Wut dat?
Sounds like you need to reformat and install KFC Linux - Kernel Saunders Edition.
I’m gonna upgrade to the 0 TB hard drive pretty soon so everything stops using up so much storage
Sigh. How many times do I have to keep telling people… 0TB ≠ 0 TiB. One is a marketing gimmick that makes it look like you’re getting more capacity than is actually available. You think you’re getting 0TB when you’re actually only getting 0TiB.
It can be ∞ TB if you inverse it by instead uploading to cloud 😏🤏🏻
are you saying all I need to do is reverse the polarity?
I absolutely despise how online retailers have always allowed sellers to use the most nonsensical classifications for certain item categories, to the point most categories’ filters are fucking useless
“User experience? Lol fuck that, browse endlessly you fucking peon!”
Everyone has their own way of doing things. In order to integrate them, you have to create your own way of doing things. Later, other people have to integrate your new schema with their own. It’s just the nature of working with many different companies
Okay, but what company measures hard drives in chickens?
Impossible to say how the screenshot came about. At some point, the semantics of someone’s data was misinterpreted. Something was called a hard drive when it isn’t, something was treated as a capacity when it isn’t
Just as a matter of interest, at the time of the screenshot I opened one of the “chickens” results and combed the page but failed to find and instance of the word (singular or otherwise). Today and yesterday, several people have asked me for the “chickens” results, which are sadly fewer now; however, one still exists within the constraints of the filters I applied. I still can find no instance of the word on the product page.
I’m sure the word “chicken” appears somewhere in the metadata, but it’s still a failure of the system and the UX.
“Hm… 1 chicken or 1 chickens… 🤔”
Hold up. There are six 1 chickens? I gotta see what a 1 chickens capacity drive looks like.
1 Chicken is measured by the cut size. The smallest currently is measured in bites. Here is a 3lb partition…
Do they come in terabites?
Cubes?! Well I’ll be darn, we got solid-state chicken now.
I think a cube is equivalent to a byte
No, a cube is clearly slang for a qubit or quantum bit so we are dealing with storage for a quantum computer.
Wut.
Guaranteed source of iodine? Mmmm
strictly speaking, if you mix salt in some oil, you have an essential oil.
Now chicken has ribs? Did they grow up in 3 mile Island?
The filters are different today and only one result shows up, but apparently this is a 1 chickens drive: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Universal-500G-USB3-0-External-Hard-Disc-HDD-State-Drive-Notebook-Desktop-for-Flash-Deals-Women-Men-New-Blue/9815853058
If you’re curious enough to reproduce the results yourself, obviously it’s Walmart (I’m not proud, but they’re the only store within an hour of my small town that carries essentially any electronics at all). I got the results searching for “20tb external drive” (not carried, it turns out) and trying to filter by capacity and in-store, but I imagine you could perform a less specific search and perhaps get even more amusing filters.
Everytime an item gets a search optimized name, an angel gets its One Size Fits All Wing Wings Bird Men Women White Feathers All Ages New.
The six 1 chickens are for RAID
Redundant Avians In Drive?
