I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.

  • alienghic@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.

    (I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        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@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

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

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

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

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          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.

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago
    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
    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

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

      I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.

    • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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:

      [autorun]
open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe
icon=icon.ico

      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.

        • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          I don’t think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference… A drive letter is a drive letter…

          • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            There are USB headers, PCI(-E) slots, SATA and some older ones. To get storage devices working on each one you will need a different driver.

            Windows disabled autorun for USB sticks before win10.

            Also if you list the devices on Linux they will show up as sd(a, b, c…) for SSDs, hd(a, b, c…) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2…) for NVMe drives. So yes the OS must be able to differentiate.

            Windows assigning letters is just weird IMO.

            Also to my knowledge the floppy would show up as disk A on Windows.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
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      10 months ago

      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.

        • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          10 months ago

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

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

    • ValiantDust@feddit.org
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      10 months ago

      Just carry one around with you and whenever something important happens or you are about to do something risky, pull it out, press it with your finger and loudly say “Save”.

      Edit: Bonus points for carrying a huge cardboard mouse pointer to click with.

      Edit 2: I really should read all the replies before starting to type.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

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

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yeeessssss…

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

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      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@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      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”
  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That’s what we used to do with them lol