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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by superkret@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[-] centipede_powder@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 15 points 2 months ago

Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It'll be super quick and gloriously noisy.

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[-] jerakor@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago

Unwrap them and open it and then put them all back so they look used. Write on the box in sharpie "Backups 1/127". Delete the critical production system at your work. When someone asks where the backups are, hand them these.

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[-] tilefan@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel

[-] xelar@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Gift them as cup coasters.

[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Insert them into your urethra!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Insert them into John McAfee's urethra!

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[-] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago
[-] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

DO IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.

[-] mocha_lotsofmilk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf

[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Anus... Right into the anus...

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Butt stuff.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 points 2 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

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 11 points 2 months ago

It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun

[-] Baaron87@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Find a way to convert them into triangle shaped disks

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Ew. Hexagons are the bestagons

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[-] kindenough@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago

Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago

crunchy but old snack

[-] TechAnon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!

[-] TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Sue the maker for false advertising. 1.44MB is clearly not High Density.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

It is compared to their predecesssor.

The 720kb "double density" diskette used for example, in Commodore Amiga computers.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Be wild! Copy that floppy!

[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Boof them. Don't think about it, just boof em.

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Glue two on top of your flip flops. You now unlocked the floppy flip flops

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