I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.

  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 days ago

    Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture… like in the film hackers

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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    23 days 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
    • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days 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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          21 days ago

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

          • Ziglin@lemmy.world
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            20 days 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.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

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

      I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
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      23 days 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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          22 days 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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      23 days 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.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    23 days 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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      22 days ago

      Yeeessssss…

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

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      22 days 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”
    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      22 days 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.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    23 days 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

    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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      23 days ago

      It is compared to their predecesssor.

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

  • _bcron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Fill a silicone cube with deepset epoxy, toss that bad boy in. Fill a 2" thick and 6’ tall PVC pipe with epoxy. Let it all dry then affix the epoxy rod to that cube and make a wizard’s staff

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
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    23 days 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.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
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      23 days 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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          22 days 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.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        23 days 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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          23 days 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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            23 days ago

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