Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

• arcosenautic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never met someone that didn’t hate their rewritable CDs. After a few months of reading/writing they would go bad.

  I agree, some floppies are particularly bad as well, but most I’ve handled worked okay

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• jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, to write to a CD, you need to use specialized software, not just a simple copy.

  Plus what about copying to replaced a files already on the CD ? I believe you need to clear it first then rewrite everything back. CD are about as inconvenient as a media can get.

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