If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, “Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!”
Hey I have plenty of floppies still around, and my beard is not grey.
I shave.
Back in my day we extruded our own polyester film, coated it with our own rust and cut them into discs free hand! All that for 170K of storage!
Maybe it needs to be a 5.25" floppy
Why not clay tablets?
What in the flying fuck is wrong with Jerboa for Lemmy? I can’t scroll up past this image now…
Yeah, I’ve been having trouble with my feeds not refreshing once I’ve scrolled down to the “bottom” of what has initially loaded. Been driving me bonkers. Shame, because I rather like Jerboa, but I’m probably going to start scouting for alternatives or sacrifice convenience and stick to a desktop browser.
I find myself happy enough with Jerboa. I don’t often experience bugs, but when I do, I make a point to report it to their dev team. They do listen and make a point to iron out the bugs, eventually…
That happens from time to time. I haven’t been able to find out why, or I’d report it. Leaving and reopening the thread fixes it.
No, that didn’t fix it. After more comments accumulated, the glitch just shifted to a different image comment. Glitch still exists, and I’ve reported and updated my findings with the Jerboa developers community.
Edit: If you care to follow, here’s my post to the Jerboa community…
You running latest version? It’s working good for me on this image.
Running version 0.0.84, so pretty recent if not the latest.
I went back to check again after more comments accumulated, and now that image isn’t causing the glitch, but another image is.
I dunno what’s up, but I messaged the Jerboa community with my findings. 🤷
Scroll through all the comments, then try scrolling back up to the top, see what if anything happens. It’s buggy here…
Ok, yeah I’m seeing the issue now, I can scroll down, but ‘infinite’ scroll back up so to speak, where is just throwing what I’m viewing back down a handful of posts etc. Hopefully an easy enough fix for them.
Someone else looked into Jerboa bug reports and found a bug ticket for this very issue as far back as Jerboa 0.0.77
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/1711
The tricky part with weird bugs like this is stumbling into a post that somehow triggers the bug. I have no clue what’s causing it, but I made sure to pass the info to the developer community.
Oh wow right, Ah well, see how they go, nice work getting the info to them!
Didn’t floppy disks actually exist?
Nah
That’s what Big Floppy want you to believe.
Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
Theres something about this sentiment that slightly scares my very soul.
Remember the cinnamon challenge? It was just like a handful of weirdos doing it and in international news, they said it was average Americans because of our underfunded education system.
have brains
Shoot, that’s an understatement. The Japanese people I’ve read online and met in person tended to be a whole lot more educated than the average Joe. Their education system seems pretty solid.
Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?
No doubt they’re somewhere, but I’ve never come across those people online or in person.
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Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
When you use old tech like that, sometimes it becomes a security feature.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
Curious about the vehicle recycling exemption
Skeptic, clicked, confirmed. Holly shit! Japan is using floppies in 21st century
It’s why would I enjoy watching a Japanese versions of cyberpunk dystopias. They still have VCRs, crt TVs, and fax machines well into the 22nd century
Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
I worked with an engineering software that was developed by a Christian team, they put a cross as the Save Icon. Cuz Jesus Saves. It was a good Dad joke so I had to let it slide.
Dad joke, lil joke, ghost joke 😎 The Holy Trinity of jokes.
If young people anywhere would see floppies, I’m guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They’re notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.
I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.
Two that come to mind: Deutsche Bahn still transfers the seat reservation database to the trains using diskettes. And San Francisco Muni uses 5.25 Floppies for their light rail trains.
Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
Maybe it’s a super disk LS-240. They were up 240 MB.
Could be a zipdisk! Those where up to what 750megs?
I had one of those beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Probably still have it somewhere among the dust.
I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999… it sucked)
Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.
Error: Buffer Underrun
Frisbee time!!! Wheeee!
This is the reason I haven’t thought too hard on bluray discs… $5 to $11 per disc…
Have you actually had an issue with buffer underruns with blurays though? I’d figure reliability should be way up, considering we now have multi-core CPUs, plus writers probably support variable speed writing that slows the write if the buffer is running out of data, plus error correction/recovery options for if it happens anyways. I’d guess vibrations, low quality discs, and loss of power would be more likely to cause a write failure than a buffer underrun these days, but maybe I have too much faith in those involved.
Maybe you’re right. I’ve never tried burning blurays. The cost and error possibility just leaned me into using hard drives for storage. They last longer, are less likely to damage, and far cheaper. Even a used drive still has a few hundred thousand writes left, usually.
I remember the smell of a new pack of discs.
Does it click?
Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.
Congrats, you win! 🥳
I had my best porn on one of those as a youth (because it meant nothing visible on my computer unless I wanted it to be) and then the drive died one day. RIP hours of downloading, plus all my games and music on my more legit disks.
I’m 20 btw.
They are fun to use, they sound neat, and they dont give me data overload of a 1 tb hard drive filling up and wondering where all the space went. Sure, all you can use it for is a few text docs or 10 low res pictures, but its at least physical and a lot harder to wreck than a cd.
Lol
These are just what I had handy LMAO I’m also 30+ and still remember dialup so maybe it’s not that impactful either way 😂
skshhhhhhhSKHHHHHHHH gnah gnah eeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE
Lol this. Spot on
Why do individually-sealed diskettes like Kraft Singles feel so wrong?
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I remember when floppies were floppy, kid.
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Oh come on, this is funny. Don’t downvote humor you old farts. I’m old enough to remember when we got internet. I was 14 and had to beg mom to let us use the free AOL trial.
Once that month was up, we were hooked faster than if we had visited a Chinese opium den in the 1800s.
Edit: wow I sure fucked up that first draft. I was 14, not 24.
They’re still floppy on the inside.
Come back when you have some punch cards. ;)
Me likey. The floppy drive clicks symphony tho 😬
When skeuomorphic isn’t anymore.
The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time.
What is that supposed to represent???
Wait for it… 😏
“Drumroll please…”
Did it ever make sense?
Yes, early 90s hard drives really sounded like a drumroll.
I wonder what other artefacts like that we have.
I’m sure some streamers use “Tune in”, which refers to radio dialing.
“Dashboard” means a whole lot of things, but originally meant a board on a carriage that prevents mud from being “dashed” up to the passengers by horses (I think).
Uh…“meal” is literally a kind of grain that most people probably don’t eat regularly at all, let alone 3x a day.
“Hanging up” the phone, as well as the icon for phon4 calls being a latter 20th century corded handset shape.
A <- ox
B <- house
C <- some kind of weapon we don’t even have a name anymore
D <- fish
And so on. This set has been running around for half of the world for thousands of years and yet nobody thinks it’s a problem.
Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
Yeah, it seems like Japan of all places should be where people should still have the most familiarity with them
Yeah but kids don’t have to file with the gov, their parents do.
[I/O] instead?
