nhaneh:

I don’t miss the bulk and hassle of old physical media - being able to bring massive music libraries with you pretty much wherever you go pretty much effortlessly with no skips and minimal seek times is much superior to what we had before things like mp3 players became basically ubiquitous.

But I’ll admit I sometimes miss the kinetic feel of things like minidiscs or cassette tapes.

Like don’t get me wrong, SD cards and USB thumb drives not only house *vastly* more data than the 3.5" diskettes and tape datasettes of my childhood, but even most of the really cheap ones also tend to be significantly more reliable, especially compared to the 3.5" floppies which picked up sector faults the way magnets pick up metal fragments, but there was something satisfying about all the mechanical noises and action that was involved with some of those medias.