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Fun fact: there’s no such thing as delete in disk space. When you “delete” a file the space on the storage drive is marked as available so that other data can overwrite it, but the data is not actually gone yet. There is software to overwrite the marked space many times over if you want to truly make the data disappear.
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matata 2y ago

this is good to know.. sounds like it would make my phone 10x faster if it truly deletes data instead of keeping it to be replaced

but i wonder if im capable of doing that

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HoloKat 2y ago

I’m not sure what solutions exist for phones.

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nobody 2y ago

Negative. It would make deletes take longer, wear your SSD out twice as fast, and gain no performance when writing something again.

To the computer, (or phone in the case) there is no difference between random bits being overwritten, and a perfect flat space of 0’s. It overwrites them the same, and sees them the same. They’re both “blank” or “empty” because the file system says so.

Truly erasing the data only matters in court when they recover things you thought were gone. 🤣

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Dimi 2y ago

Fix yo zaps. “Incorrect payment details provided”

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nobody 2y ago

I’ve gotten other zaps this AM? Perhaps Alby having issues again.

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Dimi 2y ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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matata 2y ago

amazing thank you