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"Modern" problems require modern solutions (media.piefed.zip)
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Picture of a floppy disk attached to a fridge door with a magnet labeled: "System restore disk do not erase"
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[–] 187 points 8 months ago (16 children)

It just occurred to me that younger developers may not see the whole joke here…

For those unaware, a magnet would corrupt/destroy the contents on the floppy disk.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

    Why do i always gets so extreamly nostalgic every time something from the 80s and 90s are posted... I guess everyone is like that, stuff from their childhood remains loved.

    I think also because it was a fresh field, nobody knew IT so it was exciting. It was like a small interest, similar to collecting stamps or something.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

    Bruh, what? Younger millennials (aka 30-40 yo) were born/raised in the 90's. I find your claim hard to believe.

    I'm in that group and I still dealt with floppies as a kid despite my family being poor at the time

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Out of all possibility of people not understandibg this because magnet corrupt the disk, i actually didnt realise it was a magnet and thought it was sticked to a wall with some black sponge on top and was totallt condused what's the joke

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I've never tried it. Is it actually easy to do that with a fridge magnet? Like people say a magnet will destroy a modern HDD but in reality it would take a massively dangerous magnet to do that. Like not anything you could buy as a consumer.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Younger people are not stupid, a technician that's able to write software knows what a floppy disk is. I also know how a phonograph cylinder works and they went out of time a little longer ago.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn't know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.

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