Looks like the physical storage medium of a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Which is usually called a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, except with this one it’s a bit of a misnomer, since this iteration has a rigid case, unlike the older 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch versions. Or should have, it appears to be removed in OP’s case.
The disk itself is flexible, hence the floppy disk. In contrast a hard disk had rigid platters, hence hard. The outer casing has nothing to do with it.
You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. And that said, from a daily-use perspective, the 3½" type has a rigid case, i.e. not floppy. So the storage medium is floppy, while the whole object that the user is expected & supposed to interact with is not. That’s why I find “3½ inch floppy disk” to be a bit of a misnomer.
The 8" and 5¼" types have soft carriers, which is why I have no qualms calling those “floppy disks.”
Stop infecting other communities with this trash argument. Sync dev can do what he wants, sync dev should donate some money to Lemmy dev. If you don’t think he should then you shouldn’t donate to sync dev.
duckduckgo also served me up this absolutely deranged article, probably written by a language model, about a film called ‘Space Movie 1992’ starring Kevin Bacon about a crew of a space freighter that have to intervene in an alien war, that i am just about 100% certain has never existed. apparently it’s a hugely influential bit of cinema history though. the image at the top does appear to be from the blaxploitation film the OP is pointing everyone to though.
“A man, age X ate his Ramen with the “skin on” as stated in his post on the upcoming social media site known as Lemmy. This is what happened to his stomach.”
That’s what people with tribal knowledge like to say when they are really saying “I’m the only one who knows how this works, it 's hard to get rid of me.”
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