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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2143<br />
| date = April 29, 2019<br />
| title = Disk Usage<br />
| image = disk_usage.png<br />
| titletext = Menu -> Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all files currently in use, Optimize menu options, Download cloud, Optimize cloud , Upload unused space to cloud]<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a monstrosity of a powerpoint presentation. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
Computers save their data on memory; traditionally this was known as the hard disk drive, though it is increasingly common that it is not a literal disc and may be made of flash memory (this is traditional in computers such as smartphones). Users can ask the system for a breakdown of the usage of their hard disk, which is usually displayed as a pie chart such as this comic. As with everything else in Randall's computers in the comics, his hard disk usage is... strange.<br />
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"Photos" and "Documents" are both common things to see in a disc usage report. Randall has marked a distinction between "photos" and "good photos". The ratio between these two suggests that there is an alarming number of "bad" photos on the computer.<br />
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The fact that almost a tenth of the storage is taken up by a single powerpoint presentation made five years ago means that it is either a ridiculously long, or ridiculously detailed presentation in order to use so much storage.<br />
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"System" is another common thing to see in the graph. This contains files the user is not using but the computer needs to run, such as the operating system. Randall has put quotation marks around the word to highlight how nebulous the term actually is and how he has no idea what the system files actually are.<br />
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One more possible explanation is that folder names like "Other", "Cache", "System" refer to storing porn while trying to hide this fact by using unsuspicious folder names. Hence the quotes.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[This comic shows a pie chart with 10 slices, each with a label and a line pointing to these ten different sized slices. There is a caption above the chart:]<br />
:Disk Space Usage Report<br />
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:[The labels on each slice is given in clockwise order starting from the top middle. The percentages are estimated from the image and are noted in the square brackets before the transcript:]<br />
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:[8%]: Why are there two full backups of my phone from 2015 deep in a settings folder?<br />
:[23%]: "Other"<br />
:[9%]: "Cache"<br />
:[2%]: Unused<br />
:[21%]: "System"<br />
:[9%]: A single five-year-old PowerPoint presentation<br />
:[6%]: Everything you've streamed since 2017<br />
:[3%]: Documents<br />
:[1%] Good Photos<br />
:[18%] Photos<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Computers]]<br />
[[Category:Pie charts]]</div>Sutasu