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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You think that’s bad? The secretary at my first job was told to keep that 5 1/4 floppy safe. So she stapled it to a cardboard divider in her binder.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How’s your back doing?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i made it… six years older than my dad when he was told he needed his first back surgery so i got that going for me.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    She’s in a rest home telling stories about the time she scared her co-worker by making a duplicate of an important disc and stapling it to a binder.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.

      I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you can tell it’s old, because it’s not neodymium magnet

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    what the hell how did i get this cesium magnet

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  weed at y

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  • Azrael@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sky & is a

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We sky bad

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    • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think that would damage it.

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree. I purposely applied magnets to floppies and like…maybe 9/10 had issues but generally it was a non-issue.

    Now…filling a floppy disk with shaved off match head dust…

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think your parents might’ve dropped you as a child.

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    • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Floppy discs are more resilient than that. I’ve seen videos with people testing it. It took a more powerful magnet to corrupt the data on it. I should test it myself. I don’t think a magnet like that would do any harm.

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      drives are actually not that vulnerable to magnetic interference. if they where… well we are sitting on a giant magnet all the time (earth)

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