ok idfk where to post this. but uh. i guess here its good because floppies are pretty much only used for retro tech these days??? anyways WHY IS THIS SO SATISFYING...
also uhhhhh dont ask why tf a 14 year old has floppies at home
edit: if anyone wonders why the camera is so shaky, turns out its quite hard to hold a camera with your legs so that the thing you wanna record is always in the vid while youre moving your hands a lot in it
i dont buy em i just get em off the old floppy box in the basement (theres some wing commander disks in there i used to grab to play the game on the homebox back when it was a 2001 tower and not a 2020 laptop)
I did this at school a lot, where we had to use these to store our files created during class. But I preferred to slide one finger over what is the top edge in the OP, because there is a small gap where you can catch the slide. I found this much more satisfying.
dosuser123456
in reply to dosuser123456 • • •also uhhhhh dont ask why tf a 14 year old has floppies at home
edit: if anyone wonders why the camera is so shaky, turns out its quite hard to hold a camera with your legs so that the thing you wanna record is always in the vid while youre moving your hands a lot in it
uservoid1
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in reply to uservoid1 • • •oh man yes that too (i usually use my fingers to rotate it tho since my nails are kinda long tho, but same thing)
seriously the 3,5 inch floppies are too satisfying to fidget with
so is opening and closing the cd tray for some reason
TwoBeeSan
in reply to dosuser123456 • • •Work at a retirement place. We get performers through on occasion.
Saw a dude with catalogue of floppies. Dude claimed he got burnt by a usb on occasion so he went back to floppies. I was enraptured.
He reeked of cigarettes and was still a road performer in his 60s
Jonathan Lamothe
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alleycat
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •floppydisk.com/
There seems to be still plenty of refurbs and "new old stock" on the market.
floppydisk.com | floppy disk
floppydisksdosuser123456
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •In Japan, convenience stores sold packs of blank floppy diskettes up until around 2015.
Also remember seeing VHS, Hi-8, audio cassette, DAT, mini-DV, MiniDisc… You can still buy a short spindle of CD-Rs and individual DVD+Rs.
protist
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in reply to protist • • •His queued mixes i believe.
He would be doing vocals/guitar and play the song without whatever he was going to do via his board
Could be wrong but only conclusion could draw from his bizarre setup
dosuser123456
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in reply to TwoBeeSan • • •its all fun an games until someone needs to reset their pacemaker!
those pacemaker reset magnets are cool!
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