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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.

The space saved from being thin made it bad for looking up and finding a specific disk within a stack, tho, as it couldn't fit an end label

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[–] teft@piefed.social 88 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

"didn't take too much space"

Someone never installed an operating system from floppies. Win98 was 38 floppies. Heaven help you if you didn't notice you only have 37 disks until halfway through the install.

A media format with 1.44mb per disk is not conducive to space saving even back in the day.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (10 children)
[–] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Or you could try KolibriOS or MenuetOS, both have images that allow you to install the OS from a single 1.44MB floppy

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