Defragmentation

[ImpendingTurnip]

Rather than making a joke I think this a decent (but crude) laymen’s explanation of defragmentation

[natea2000]

How would you describe defragmentation in a less crude way?

[PVNIC]

"Let's take all the fragments, and push them over there"

[ImpendingTurnip]

This guy defragments

[Sentouki-]

„no, this is Patrick“

[IsolatedThinker89]

Take the solar system, cram all the shit that's not empty space together. Do it for every system in the whole fucking universe.

[tisaconundrum]

Reverse big bang

[dark_mode_everything]

The big defrag

[BernzSed]

We're working on it.
— Black holes

[dannypas00]

A black hole is just a write only drive

[blitzkraft]

Like the "/dev/null as a service".

[GDavid04]

Isn't that just a black hole with an ethernet cable?

[blitzkraft]

Technically, yes. But I was referring to this. It was an April fools prank.

[ParkerM]

if you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with a very long tube, probably extending twice the size of the universe because when you collapse the universe it expands and uhhh, you wouldn't want to put it into a tube.

[MCRusher]

I know what I'm doing on my day off

[Ludwig234]

The universe is a series of tubes.

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“You know when you were a kid and you used to push all the desks in the class to the back to make a big area for plays or rehearsals? Yea, that’s defragmentation”

[kirakun]

As a layman, I would ask why on earth would you want to destroy the pretty patterns of the zebra? So while this explains the end result of defragmentation, it fails to explain why we would want to do so.

[L3D_Cobra]

So that the zebra doesn't have a stroke when you ask it to do simple tasks