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AnnaFrankfurter ,

Why would anyone bother making 1.4 MB diaks

LowtierComputer ,

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58008 ,
@58008@lemmy.world avatar

Coasters for a DnD night!

LowtierComputer ,

But this is a good answer!

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Pirate Windows 95

kat_angstrom ,
  1. Pick some friends that you like
  2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
  3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
  4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
  5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
superkret OP ,

this…is a great idea!
Especially since I have friends who will go to some effort to find out what’s on the disk out of curiosity.

kat_angstrom ,

Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad

Blizzard ,

Make sure to name the file inconspicuously but temptingly, relating to the old days, like Bill Gates confession.mp3 or DJ Mike Llama - Llama Whippin’ Intro.mp3

blackbirdbiryani ,

They make really good coasters, will recommend.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

Poor Mr. Astley, forever known as Mr. Roll

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

He had his run during the 80s. He’s enjoying a second wind with the Rick roll.

slacktoid ,
@slacktoid@lemmy.ml avatar

It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up

SzethFriendOfNimi ,

Make sure to use this version of the song

Floppy Disks - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

MrGerrit ,

Rick rollercoastered.

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

We use old floppies as coasters!

I have people all the time ask “these are so cute, where did you get them?”. RadioShack. 25 years ago.

AndrewZabar ,

I fuckin LOVE this!!! It’s absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!

I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.

kat_angstrom ,

Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out

AndrewZabar ,

Nah it’s awesome. Like you can then tell them “Hah you’ve been rickrolled” haha.

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

6.

lattrommi ,
@lattrommi@lemmy.ml avatar

just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named

autorun.inf

and add the following to it with a text editor:


<span style="color:#323232;">[autorun]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe
</span><span style="color:#323232;">icon=icon.ico
</span>

while i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there’s probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven’t used windows in years.

spacemanspiffy ,

Split up something like Puppy or Damn Small Linux across them all.

Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.

Boot Linux off of all the floppies.

SkaveRat ,

Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.

10 floppy drive raid, please. don’t want to lose that critical data

iamjackflack ,

Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo

i_stole_ur_taco ,

When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.

So I say put Windows 38 on them.

polysics ,

Cyberpunk chainmail breastplate

datelmd5sum ,

TDK’s revenue has been increasing steadily at least starting from 2010. When was the last time you bought a TDK product?

ayyy ,

You probably have one of their chips or components in your computer, phone, tv, charger brick, etc.

Melatonin ,

Mount nine of them on a square board so that they’re all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.

Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.

Tiltinyall ,

What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren’t that reflective.

Melatonin ,

I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.

Now I’m going to have to rethink my whole thing.

PolydoreSmith ,

You… don’t know what a floppy disk is, do you?

Melatonin ,

I do, I just don’t pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying.

My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy.

Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.

SpaceNoodle ,

Thank them for the retro-themed coaster set

superkret OP ,

“Omg, you 3D-printed a save icon!”

SpaceNoodle ,

I think we finally threw out the last of our diskettes about a decade ago - most were too corrupted to recover anything useful. I guess I could 3D print one now …

AndrewZabar ,

I actually bought some online about a year ago because I’m doing some retro stuff. I even got a usb floppy drive.

SpaceNoodle ,

I probably still have a USB floppy drive in the Bin of Peripherals. Haven’t really actively worked with floppies since 2012 though.

dustyData ,

Ok, this is a sidetrack but hear me out. Floppy disks would make awful coasters. A coaster has to be somewhat absorbent to avoid spilling condensation water on the table. This is why cork is the most popular material for coasters. The best coasters are a cloth top over a cork shape with a plastic rim and a felt bottom. This ensures total protection to the table and gives enough freedom to be creative with shapes, prints, colors and figures. The novelty printed plastic disks are the worst coasters possible, and floppy disks will only drip all over the table defeating the purpose of a coaster.

SpaceNoodle ,

Laser-cut wooden floppies

AndrewZabar ,

What a Buzz Killington.

dustyData ,

I know, I agree. It’s just, I’m tired of people using bad coasters then complaining when they stick to the bottom of their glass spilling condensation water all over their lap and shirt. This is the reason that happens. That said, I would totally love to have good floppy disk look alike coasters. But being given an actual one as a coaster won’t amuse me, it would make me groan.

BrazenSigilos ,

Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some ‘redacted’ papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you ‘forget’ them at each drop point.

tilefan ,

see how many of them it takes to hold a single 4K image

superkret OP ,

That’s just over 8MP.
You could easily store a 4K Image on a floppy in half-way decent quality, two with visible jpeg artifacts.

tilefan ,

okay so make it bigger

vortexal ,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.

Hello_there ,

Label in sharpie as "Bitcoin password" and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area.
Watch people try to pick up.

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

This is the right answer. You failed hard.

Landless2029 ,

Yeeessssss…

Cover the paper label with packing tape (cheap mans laminate).
Use quick set epoxy for a better bond.

circuscritic ,

This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.

dessalines ,

Alternatively, you could write

  • "Someone help me I’m trapped in here!"
  • “Nuclear attack scenarios”
  • “You put this disk here to save your life, do not ignore”
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