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jeena ,
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Great job!

Although, using floppy disks has the advantage that everyone has to make sure their file sizes are small enough to fit on them. Which makes for much easier handling for those who don't use floppy disks.

Lemming421 ,
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Unzipping archive. Please insert disk 34/2365

Boozilla ,
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File read error on disk .

kamenlady ,
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Installing Photoshop with disks was a chore, or rather a cumbersome task.

cm0002 ,

Although, using floppy disks has the advantage that everyone has to make sure their file sizes are small enough to fit on them. Which makes for much easier handling for those who don’t use floppy disks.

What? How is that at all relevant in today’s age?

eRac ,

The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.

A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.

I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.

cm0002 ,

Ok yea, but it’s 6MB, it’s inconsequential with today’s storage densities and a modern system can handle it with ease

itsathursday ,

This is how the world ends

SexualPolytope ,

I had a student send me the screenshot of a pdf for his homework submission. So, yeah. I guess that’s how it ends.

itsathursday ,

How much battery life did their phone have?

SexualPolytope ,

No idea. It was a laptop screenshot.

ogmios ,
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“It’s not that big of a deal” repeated enough times, is exactly how our society got to this state in the first place.

kamenlady ,
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A month ago i had a customer rating about not being able to upload the new Header image ( 250 MB ), while the error message clearly states: max 5 MB file size allowed. I didn’t even know where to start.

SexualPolytope ,

Not when you have 1000s of files. It adds up.

NaibofTabr ,

or… you end up with more smaller files to keep track of in order to carry the same information that could’ve been in one large file

intensely_human ,

The best big data solution is those big boxes with 100 floppy disks. Just make sure you get one with the labels included. Not making that mistake again.

borth ,

How does small file sizes in floppy disks make it easier handling for those won’t use floppy disks? Genuinely curious.

SexualPolytope ,

I think it’s because it’ll promote smaller sizes in general, which is almost always better to handle. (If it can be done without significantly losing quality.)

randon31415 ,

Think if Twitter for government documents. If the pure text can’t fit in a floppy, nobody’s got the time to read it.

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