Today, I noticed that my glasses case sticks to my work laptop like a magnet.
I played around with it for a few seconds, then the thought struck me, that it might be my glasses case that’s magnetic, and I might be fucking up the electronics or the HDD or something by holding it close to my laptop. Pulled away real quick then. 😅I did try with my keys later, and well, turns out that it’s my work laptop that’s magnetic, so I guess, I wasn’t fucking anything up after all…
Honey i found that disk you were desperatly looking for.
It just occurred to me that younger developers may not see the whole joke here…
For those unaware, a magnet would corrupt/destroy the contents on the floppy disk.
Ive never used a flippy disk but i did get the joke. Its silly and straight forward enough that im tempted to make one for my house lmao
A lot of older data storage was very magnet sensitive, so it wasnt too hard to figure out
For the younger generation it might be a philosophical experience, because that is, The Icon of Saving!
First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.
Why do i always gets so extreamly nostalgic every time something from the 80s and 90s are posted… I guess everyone is like that, stuff from their childhood remains loved.
I think also because it was a fresh field, nobody knew IT so it was exciting. It was like a small interest, similar to collecting stamps or something.
I use my old floppys as coasters!
I was informed everything was stored on the cloud. Why would we need these things called “floppy disks” (which don’t like floppy at all)?
/s just in case
Younger people are not stupid, a technician that’s able to write software knows what a floppy disk is. I also know how a phonograph cylinder works and they went out of time a little longer ago.
I never suggested they were stupid. Just that they may not know the details. So I explained it.
If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn’t know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.
*triggering intensifies
I am old enough to understand this joke. Sigh.
Which of your joints pops the loudest?
always the knees
My right one in particular sucks.
My whole body just sounds like Chester Thompson x Phil Collins as I walk around
My ankles. I think it’s because I play drums.
“System disk erase, Restore do not”
Don’t dead, open inside
It’s that you, Yoda?
Restore, or do not restore. There is no backup
What kind of system are you backing up on a single 1.44 mb disk? I guess “restore” just had the restore utilities.
You could boot an old pc from floppy like what later would be called a live CD. Though you were constantly switching disks. Like if you ever played Monkey Island on 5.25” floppies.
When the OS is DOS you can easily fit the entire thing on a floppy.
Mac OS system 6 too, I think.
Oh, there’s a- Monkey in my pocket! And he’s stealing all my change! His stare is blank and glassy I suspect he’s deraaaaaanged!
I believe it’s a practical joke and there isn’t actually anything important on that drive.
Not anymore!
Are you akshually’ing my akshually post?
I think he was letting you know you r/whoosh ed
What is ‘r/’?
lemmy
Older PCs couldn’t always boot from CD. In those cases, you needed a boot disk. It had just enough OS to get the cd drive working and allow for a full install. They also allowed for basic repair or maintenance tasks e.g. resizing the windows partition.
Veterans kept a couple about at home. Nothing like the catch 22. “I need a boot disk to fix my PC/I need my PC to make a boot disk.”
A lot of terraform and docker compose files could fit on a floppy still.
Actually, that might be a fun thing to play with. It might not have data. But you could back up a good amount of config and deployment information and have a system to restore data to.
The real question is where are the people in that picture now?
We ed at y, sky and is a bad of is a. A it above d :(
Which is exactly what you’d read out of the floppy disk
I thought I was having a stroke lol, didn’t even see the other magnets at first
Totally dude!
Is this a magnet you can buy? That would be a cool little gift
Finding the magnet is easy, but finding the save icon could be tricky.
Just 3D print a save icon (thingiverse).
Imagine, if you will, the person who is wise to the effect on a floppy disk, but uses a CD instead (Or DVD). They use it a few times but then it too stops working. Why?
Answer:
Repeated clamping between the fridge and the magnet scratches or destroys enough of the metal layer, which is on the label side, to the point that the disc becomes unreadable.
There’s also that leaving a disc out in daylight for long enough can destroy its readability, especially if it’s a user-written (burned) disc.
I feel old now. I can almost hear the noise of the drive trying to chew on this one.
Anyway, have some on-theme music video: BAD SECTOR by unfa (youtube.com)
this is art
