Floppys were the ultimate in security because if you looked at them wrong they become corrupted.
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Stop sticking them to your fridge with a magnet
Stapling 5¼" disks to reports was another whoopsie.
If the staple is near the corner it's perfectly fine, the disc itself is round in a square sleeve. So the corners have nothing in them
One person downvoted... "Don't you DARE put a staple through a floppy disk!" Lmao
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Or using a binder clip on 3.5" disks. Lost count how many times I saw that shit.
I always thought that was legend.
But that's how mom shows off my rust codebase! :(
But the slide is so fun to fiddle with! Click clack click clack, why doesn't Commander Keen run anymore!?!
TBH I fidgeted with those slides a lot and don't recall fucking my shit up.
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Back when shit made sense. OneDrive, eat your heart out
What kind of sense is there in storing your floppies with the shutter at the top?
It was the way of The Ancestors.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written!
the seals weren't that good so storing them facing down for long periods of time made them prone to data leaks.
What? You want to stair at some indistinguishable grey rectangle instead of this cool mechanical flap?
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Service accounts and RBAC has taken you for an absolute fool!
Service accounts? You mean service principals and managed identities
A year’s supply of save icons.
Mate, don’t give them ideas. The enshittifiers literally will implement “save tokens” into an app as soon as it occurs to them.
For some reason I have never seen one of those where the spare key was not attached to the primary key 🤔
That's because all of the other instances had the keys get lost and the owners had to break them open and buy new diskette cases.
You mean to tell me if you lost the keys you could just break them open? I threw away countless locked cases full of diskettes.
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If you've ever installed Microsoft office from floppy disks, you don't what those times back.
I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They'd come in Floppy-sized segments; I'd go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that's only if the warez site didn't disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I'd try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.
Those were the days.
CRC ERROR. CHECK ARCHIVE AND TRY AGAIN.
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The only thing i want back from floppy disks is the form factor
We've already got the technology to remake them as SSDs too. SATA drives are small and light enough, and eSATA is removable, possibly hot swappable. We've been able to eject optical discs with software for decades. A physically small drive inside a floppy shaped caddy wouldn't take much work, and could be much faster than flash memory based drives.
I don't know enough about nvme drives, but they could be even better again :)
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In the 90s, that would have been a single copy of photoshop.
Its funny cause you could pinch the back and lift the lid off of its hinges
Like bike locks. Very easy to circumvent, but just enough of a hurdle to deter most casual crimes of opportunity.
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Locks are not made for criminals, locks are made for occasionals after all, 99% of locks are very easy to break in and the 1% is a nightmare even for the owner
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Fine, I'll do it:
Why the hell are the floppies in the bin with the label-side down? Nobody used these with the shutter-side up. How're you going to read the missing label when they're upside down?
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At the same time these were in vogue, you also could require a key to start the PC itself.
Who else can smell this picture?
Still more secure than Flock's shit.
Also I had one of those... The plastic... The color...
What kind of psychopath stored their floppies upside down like this?
UpperEndian format, clearly.
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Spent some time imaging a bunch of floppies from my late father last summer, and I noticed that on every single 3.5" floppy box, the keys were the same. The locks had same bitting.
...also just noticed that the single 5.25" floppy box (of Commodore 64 floppies) I have at hand that even has a lock is currently unlocked. And the key is at my parents' place. ...have to check if the key is the same as the rest when I visit the next time.
When I was in high school we could buy floppy disks from the vending machine
That's so cool
Checkmate hackers.
gotta leave the key in the tower too so i could pretend to start it and drive it as a kid using my dads computer.
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And you could open it with a spoon.
Safe and secure. Just like our digital lives today!
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