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[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Only one of those is the global symbol for saving one's work, though. πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ Poor CDs.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That corner cutout is grossly exagerrated. In the actual floppy disk (which is also not floppy anymore) the cutout is tiny.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's grossly exaggerated because it was designed when we had UX designers

It has to look okay all the way down to 8x8 pixels

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Justice for the 5.25" floppy disk! It had an actual hole inside, which would fit your finger! You could see it's a disk and not a weird shaped square box, and you could hear it's rotating.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, if you're saying it should have been designed based off 5.25" I'm down :)

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

back in the ol' 8bit commodore days, we had one of these gadgets so we could flip 'em over and use the other side

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

good ol capitalism, it’s cheaper to just make all discs double sided and market some as single sided and the others as double for more price …

[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

the disk is still floppy, it just has a hard outer shell for protection.

Only in the west. In China they use an SD card.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we hang them up like wind chimes around the veggie garden. they spook some of the would-be freeloading diners.

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it's a Nickelback album

That might be too effective. πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«πŸ€’

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Unless they’re exFAT.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

You’re getting a red book for unsportsmanlike conduct.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wha-

Floppies are thinner than CDs.

They're just not nudists.

[–] grendel84@tiny.tilde.website 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have altered the context of the joke, pray I do not alter it further.

[–] grendel84@tiny.tilde.website 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@sp3ctr4l
I'm sorry, I'm bad about humor going over my head πŸ˜…

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

force chokes you, but only a little bit