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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[–] centipede_powder@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

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

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

Gift them as cup coasters.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Insert them into your urethra!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Insert them into John McAfee's urethra!

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 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.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

DO IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO

[–] mocha_lotsofmilk@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Anus... Right into the anus...

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 points 3 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

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Butt stuff.

[–] Baaron87@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Find a way to convert them into triangle shaped disks

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ew. Hexagons are the bestagons

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[–] ReCursing@lemmings.world 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 10 points 3 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 3 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

crunchy but old snack

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Be wild! Copy that floppy!

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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