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Connections #982 2026-02-17 (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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spoilerHerring almost got me but after eliminating the "sauce" category there were words related to reading that were mixed with both perusing a book and speeding through it, and nothing quite fit fully. With Bombay not connecting to anything else and missus not really either, I found purple and the rest fell in place

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    What was the herring?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    spoilerDifferent types of computer drives: floppy, flash, zip, and then thumb was another name for a USB drive

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oooh… It flew over my head completely, but I doubt I would've been tricked.

    πŸŸ₯I somehow searched for disk as in floppy disk and found nothing that fit with that. The sus thing about this herring is that only zip is not a physical drive and thumb with flash would refer to the same thing while others don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    spoilerThe thumb and flash being similar is a clue that it probably isn't the category, although flash drives are more generally any type of drive with flash memory that connects through USB, and thumb drives are mostly referring to those small USB sticks. But zip is a physical drive (a separate thing from a zip file). It was only around for a few years in a sort of awkward limbo between floppies and CDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

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    • [+] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I wouldn't say purple was particularly bad this time in that regard.

    πŸŸͺFor me Bombay and missus didn't really fit with anything. Bombay was the hook that helped me sift through leftovers. Being the only place name it suggested to look at word parts or changing letters.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago 
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    Green was the trickiest for me today (had the right theory and accidentally "cheated" with a dictionary). I'd switch green and blue in difficulty, but other than that pretty straightforward.

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago 
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    Got me with the first one

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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago 
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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

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    Got caught up on green as wasn’t familiar with those even though I guessed what the connection was.

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