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

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re moving to CD-ROM!

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  • Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re moving to ZIP Disks!

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• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  !nottheonion@lemmy.world

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• vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so what’s wrong with floppy disks?

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  • jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.

    USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware “virises”. On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also you can’t just write “HACK THE PLANET!” in marker on a tiny USB drive or microSD card…So that’s points against, right there.

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t that just CD with less storage?

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need several million of them and the rest of your lifetime to boot up the latest call of duty.

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay for real though… storage size? Terrible I agree.

  But I’ve been kinda obsessed lately with the form factor of diskettes. They’re:

  • Not super easy to lose (looking ~at~ for you, nanoSD)
  • They’re easily labeled
  • Easily stacked or filed away.
  • Most importantly: Make a nice satisfying “ka-chunk” when inserting into a drive.
  • Satisfyingly fly out of said drive when you push the eject button firmly.

  Nowadays, if we made a diskette that basically replaced the magnetic disc with flash memory, and the shutter protected the connectors, you could hypothetically store like 1TB in that space, it could likely be read super fast, and would obviously be way more reliable than the old “Oh no a speck of dust ruined my 2MB file” of old floppies.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they think people have drug problems. 🤣

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