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.
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.
Yeah, there’s always somebody that might learn something new by coming across it for the first time. :D
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’ve never tried it. Is it actually easy to do that with a fridge magnet? Like people say a magnet will destroy a modern HDD but in reality it would take a massively dangerous magnet to do that. Like not anything you could buy as a consumer.
Out of all possibility of people not understandibg this because magnet corrupt the disk, i actually didnt realise it was a magnet and thought it was sticked to a wall with some black sponge on top and was totallt condused what’s the joke
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I thought I was having a stroke lol, didn’t even see the other magnets at first
Which is exactly what you’d read out of the floppy disk
Totally dude!
I am old enough to understand this joke. Sigh.
Which of your joints pops the loudest?
always the knees
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).
“System disk erase, Restore do not”
Don’t dead, open inside
Do I miss the read/write speed? No. Do I miss the capacity? No.
…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.
I’ve seen a few projects that stuff a bunch of flash memory into a floppy for crazy storage capacity, which is pretty cool. Maintains that nostalgia and commands much more respect than one of those ridiculously tiny little USBs that’s easy to lose! :p
I miss those “giant” zip disks that lasted like 5 years as a storage media. They were between 3.5 floppies and burnable CD Roms.
I recently got into LPs. It’s slowly replacing the default home music source. It’s really satisfying to have solid physical media.
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)
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…
That’s probably integrated speakers. Those can have quite powerful magnets. If it has old spinny hard drives, those have magnets, too. Sometimes the lid also has a magnet if there is a hall effect sensor for detecting if it’s closed.
Usually it’s hard to find a magnet that’d be strong enough to make electronics inside a laptop malfunction without breaking the case open. Your regular fridge magnets are too weak for that kind of application, so are the ones usually found in glasses cases. And if you happen to be an owner of a chonky magnet, you probably already know the thing is dangerous.
this is art
I’d give it a 50 chance of still working. Those old ferrite magnets had relatively-weak spread-out fields. It obv would have affected the whole platter, but the drives/software were pretty good at dealing with weak signals. We had disks, we had magnets and some of us were youngish and bored. you had to be a little persistent to even fuck the disk up a little.
Now, you place a running AC box fan’s motor right up to the drive, i’ll corrupt the f out of the disk, i did that before.
weed at y sky & is a bad of is a
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.
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.
I believe it’s a practical joke and there isn’t actually anything important on that drive.
Are you akshually’ing my akshually post?
I think he was letting you know you r/whoosh ed
What is ‘r/’?
lemmy
Why, there is no r in lemmy
Plot twist: it’s a NORAD system recovery diskette.
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!
LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD
Monkey Island is such a treasure:
“You just don’t know when to quit, do you?!”
“Apparently neither did your barber.”
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.
You used to be able to get a whole-ass router that fit on 1.2MB in the late 90’s.
Novell SPX routers also ran from a single floppy
Before bios supported bootable cd’s you needed them to get the windows 95 install started.
That said, this was an obvious joke image :)
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The real question is where are the people in that picture now?
