I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it’s microwave safe
I cook Arch btw
ding!
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
You build your own floppotron of course
That was amazing… so much free time and hydro!
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Label in sharpie as “Bitcoin password” and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
Alternatively, you could write
- “Someone help me I’m trapped in here!”
- “Nuclear attack scenarios”
- “You put this disk here to save your life, do not ignore”
This is the right answer. You failed hard.
Yeeessssss…
Cover the paper label with packing tape (cheap mans laminate).
Use quick set epoxy for a better bond.Stuck to the fridge using a hard drive magnet!
This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.
This but put your own floppy drives up on local listing sites for ridiculous prices. Lmao it’s almost too evil.
That’s more like a scam than a prank
¿Por que no los dos?
Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote “(My company’s product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE” on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.
In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.
Now I want to do this at my job… I actually have a box of 5.25" floppies somewhere…
Add Nutella, enjoy?
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
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.
Throw them around your office like frisbees.
Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You’ll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout “WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT’S SO DAMN HARD!?”
Oh no, now I’m going to have to search for an old floppy disc
Live action reboot of ReBoot
Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It’ll be super quick and gloriously noisy.
For anyone not familiar… That would give you 14.4 MB (1.44 MB formatted x 10) of capacity. The rated speeds for a floppy drive is 1000 kilobits per second. So if you did a Raid-0 (striped), let’s just say that gives you 10,000 kilobits per second. We convert transfer speeds to storage speeds (8 bits to 1 byte)… Means 1.25MB/s. So best case, it takes you about 11.5 seconds to do a full transfer of the 14.4MB. it actually be much slower because this is best case scenario.
So you’re saying we just need a few (hundred) dozen more disks and drives? Look out Seagate, you’ve got a zombie competitor coming.
Goodness, the noise
But when that noise is used in the right hands …
Yap, watched all 8 minutes. Flopptron ‘tamed a tornato’
