When you grab something from somewhere else and do “what” with that thing you “downloaded?”
Like what are you doing with that file? ***ing it to your hard drive of some kind… what do you call that?
To **** a file you downloaded?
“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
Edit : Holy SHIT you guys seem to not like the logic I’m attempting to provide here or something.
I know generally folks here are very intelligent, but all of you do know the basics of how a computer works, right? When you start typing something out, it’s happening in your RAM, right? And then when you want to SAVE that work you’re doing, you DOWNLOAD that work from RAM to the re-writable disk media of some kind? Hard drive, SD card, whatever…
I personally LIKE the DISK ICON, but was just offering an answer to the request of “provide an alternative” and then backing it up with a logical explanation.
Arguably, you are downloading something temporary that you’re doing in the RAM into your system’s more permanently writable disk for longer-term storage, but I know what you’re saying.
To be clear, I personally like the disk icon, but the question presumes that you provide an alternative so that was what I did.
Really all I’m saying is - if you had to twist my arm and do away with the disk icon - considering the abstraction involved with what the action ultimately represents, the “download” icon (down arrow + underline) is a close enough approximation that users (both new and old) could mentally map the action well enough to understand the logic.
Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.
I do agree overall, but it is less so these days as most modern applications where you’re creating something auto-save - either “in the cloud” or in a file recovery area set by the application.
In a web browser, “saving” an image or video or whatever is the same as “downloading.”
If you’re working on a document in something like Adobe - since most of their software now auto-saves your documents to their cloud service, “saving” is really just you creating another copy and bringing it to a specific location on you internal storage media… like downloading it.
I do want to point out that I personally am fine with the disk icon being forever associated with “saving” since it went from being a skeuomorphic symbol for legacy users to an abstract one for newer users, but if you were to twist my arm - that’s my argument as to why the “download arrow w/ an underline” works as well…
…though Jesus Christ - it seems that comment above where I was attempting to make that point is very contentious.
Right.
When you grab something from somewhere else and do “what” with that thing you “downloaded?”
Like what are you doing with that file? ***ing it to your hard drive of some kind… what do you call that?
To **** a file you downloaded?
“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
Edit : Holy SHIT you guys seem to not like the logic I’m attempting to provide here or something.
I know generally folks here are very intelligent, but all of you do know the basics of how a computer works, right? When you start typing something out, it’s happening in your RAM, right? And then when you want to SAVE that work you’re doing, you DOWNLOAD that work from RAM to the re-writable disk media of some kind? Hard drive, SD card, whatever…
I personally LIKE the DISK ICON, but was just offering an answer to the request of “provide an alternative” and then backing it up with a logical explanation.
I’m not downloading when I save a file I edited locally on my computer.
Arguably, you are downloading something temporary that you’re doing in the RAM into your system’s more permanently writable disk for longer-term storage, but I know what you’re saying.
To be clear, I personally like the disk icon, but the question presumes that you provide an alternative so that was what I did.
Really all I’m saying is - if you had to twist my arm and do away with the disk icon - considering the abstraction involved with what the action ultimately represents, the “download” icon (down arrow + underline) is a close enough approximation that users (both new and old) could mentally map the action well enough to understand the logic.
But like, what if, you’re like … “downloading” the file … from memory … to disk? … man?
You take an online thing and make it local.
I understand how some younger folk might not see as stark a contrast in saving v downloading.
I’d say if you’re 30+, you prolly do.
Aaahhaha. I didn’t even read that bit before writing my first lines, and that only confirms my doubts.
Never seen these, eh?
What are we doing to the file? ****Ing it?
Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.
I do agree overall, but it is less so these days as most modern applications where you’re creating something auto-save - either “in the cloud” or in a file recovery area set by the application.
In a web browser, “saving” an image or video or whatever is the same as “downloading.”
If you’re working on a document in something like Adobe - since most of their software now auto-saves your documents to their cloud service, “saving” is really just you creating another copy and bringing it to a specific location on you internal storage media… like downloading it.
I do want to point out that I personally am fine with the disk icon being forever associated with “saving” since it went from being a skeuomorphic symbol for legacy users to an abstract one for newer users, but if you were to twist my arm - that’s my argument as to why the “download arrow w/ an underline” works as well…
…though Jesus Christ - it seems that comment above where I was attempting to make that point is very contentious.
If Windows gets their way you don’t!
You can curse on Lemmy.
You a bot?
Edit: Oh, I see it now.
Not a bot.
They aren’t censoring swearwords. 5they are blanking it out to make a point about the word save.
Thanks. Apparently everyone hates that comment I made.
Thanks for pointing out. I totally missed that.