I was browsing a technical store’s website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You’d need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls

If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?

This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90’s, so… :P

  • Mpatch@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 days ago

    Fuck bud I still use floppy disks. It’s damn hard to find a pc with a dedicated floppy drive. Those usb floppy drives fail writing to floppy more often than not.

      • Mpatch@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        Yeah I kina lucked out I found a 10 pack of new ones on Amazon about 2 years ago. And recently, while cleaning out an old auto performance shop, there was like 2 or 3 55gal drums full of used and new floppy disks.

        Also more recently there was something about Japan finaly upgrading their i.t infrastructure from floppy disks to more modern tech.

        Hell apparently they still make cassette tapes for use in prisons because you can’t make a shank out of one with the materials they use for them.

        • emotional_soup_88@programming.devOPEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          And you did not share that loot of floppys with the rest of the world? D:

          The inmates at the prison that I was working at all had off brand CD Walkmans.

          • Mpatch@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 hours ago

            I thought about it. But I all belonged to a dead guy. And I thought to my self. This is cool and all and I can nit pick through this load of stuff yes But he is dead and I’m alive. And this stuff didn’t do him any good in the end. So I’d rather not waste my time.

            I did find this though funny enough there is an archive online of all the contents in it