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  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What’s the difference compared to printing it on paper? It’s a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.

    What are the rules, here? What’s your personal definition of physical that I don’t know about?

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      6 months ago

      The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner

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        6 months ago

        So there’s an addition of charge? Physical addition/change!

        I just feel like you’re nitpicking this in absurdum. That’s my honest take. ✋