I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway. Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…

Currently rocking an internal blu ray drive and external floppy one (only because I couldn’t find an internal one), I can’t possibly imagine not having an optical drive on my computers. I still own a lot of disks including software and movies, I won’t just throw everything away because the tech is now deemed obsolete (which is debatable on top of that, currently have a better quality on blu ray than on streaming platforms, plus no ads and works offline) If only it were easier to install multi-disk software through wine/proton though…

You jest, but a byte isn’t always 8 bits (well, nowaday it kinda is, de facto, but it wasn’t always like that). An 8-bit byte is called an octet, I don’t see it used much in english, but apparently it is used nonetheless, after a quick check. Since octets are the standard byte size, I suppose we could call them “metric bytes”.