Satire no?
Yeah. This shit comes around once or twice a year. It’s something to make the younger generations feel special and distanced from their predecessors.
Yeah. This shit comes around once or twice a year. It’s something to make the younger generations feel special and distanced from their predecessors.
No. Millenials barely remember floppies. From that point down younger generations have no fucking idea what they are
What are you on about Millenials barely remembering floppies? We grew up using them until at least highschool, even if other writable media existed before then.
And most millenials are 20 years outta high school
Real “anybody younger than me is a millennial” vibe going on here
“That point down” = sucessive generations. Don’t be arsey.
Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.
Imagine we were dead
I wonder if you can
What the fuck is VR? Is that like brain diving?
In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50
Nice try Satan, but my start up is building ads into car start ups. You can’t switch gears until the ad is done.
My startup is building ads into ad startups. You can’t ad before you finish an ad.
No pls, i have a shareholder that needs a new boat
Maybe it’s time to change the save icon into a USB drive.
Is it really so bad if it’s just a legacy icon?
If your discord server is inundated with people who have no idea which one of these damn buttons save, yeah. I saw the same thing happen on a PHPBB in 2010. To many, that icon means nothing.
icons are basically ideograms. floppy disks might be the etymology of the save icon, but kids will learn it means “save” the same way Chinese kids learn that 人 means “person” (a simplified rendering of the original Bone Oracle glyph, which depicted a person from the side)
as another example, you used the word “inundated” which comes from the Latin unda meaning “wave,” as in waves overcoming a building. but you learned to use that word without needing the history lesson behind it.
Sure, except when they don’t. Like what happened with that dev on that board in 2010.
How do play, pause, or stop icons mean anything? They were around for decades before me and I just learned that was how those actions were communicated.
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Likely in the way that the previous commenter described. They’re not wrong, it just wasn’t a question of how. It was more that sometimes the transmission of information fails.
These days I’m starting to see more and more of an arrow pointing down towards a hard drive, a file folder, or an outbox bin. I feel like that’s a suitable replacement.
to me that means “download” rather than “save.” if I’m using an online editor, “save” might not download anything.
Yeeees. This.
Not unless you’re ready to change “hung up” to “tapped end.”
Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren’t having kids, there is no youth.
lolll
I saw plenty of couples in Japan with several kids when I visited tourist sites. Of course, there could be a bit of a survivor bias there…
That’s a fictitious character.
Actual vending machines are never in this state.Higher probabilities are:
and
God damnit, I payed four dollars for that can of sugar.
You think it’s bad that the save icons have floppy disks?
A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for “database” (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it’s running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system
I thought that represented money
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Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
Maybe it’s a super disk LS-240. They were up 240 MB.
Could be a zipdisk! Those where up to what 750megs?
I had one of those beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Probably still have it somewhere among the dust.
I had my best porn on one of those as a youth (because it meant nothing visible on my computer unless I wanted it to be) and then the drive died one day. RIP hours of downloading, plus all my games and music on my more legit disks.
I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999… it sucked)
I remember the smell of a new pack of discs.
Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.
Error: Buffer Underrun
Frisbee time!!! Wheeee!
This is the reason I haven’t thought too hard on bluray discs… $5 to $11 per disc…
Does it click?
Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.
Congrats, you win! 🥳
[I/O] instead?
Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
Curious about the vehicle recycling exemption
Skeptic, clicked, confirmed. Holly shit! Japan is using floppies in 21st century
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
When you use old tech like that, sometimes it becomes a security feature.
Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
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Remember the cinnamon challenge? It was just like a handful of weirdos doing it and in international news, they said it was average Americans because of our underfunded education system.
have brains
Shoot, that’s an understatement. The Japanese people I’ve read online and met in person tended to be a whole lot more educated than the average Joe. Their education system seems pretty solid.
Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?
No doubt they’re somewhere, but I’ve never come across those people online or in person.
Theres something about this sentiment that slightly scares my very soul.
Maybe it needs to be a 5.25" floppy
Why not clay tablets?
