[She raises a finger, making a point.] Not if you save everything to a cloud.

And so long as the hard drive isn't damaged too badly, you can still pull information from it. The same goes for a physical copy, though. Drop it into water, someone sets it on fire, wind blows it away...

[...Huh. Pidge's head tilts slightly to the side.] Nothing's permanent, I guess. At least a computer's easy to carry around.