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[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days ago (12 children)

Only one of those is the global symbol for saving one's work, though. πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ Poor CDs.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That corner cutout is grossly exagerrated. In the actual floppy disk (which is also not floppy anymore) the cutout is tiny.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's grossly exaggerated because it was designed when we had UX designers

It has to look okay all the way down to 8x8 pixels

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Justice for the 5.25" floppy disk! It had an actual hole inside, which would fit your finger! You could see it's a disk and not a weird shaped square box, and you could hear it's rotating.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Ah, if you're saying it should have been designed based off 5.25" I'm down :)

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

back in the ol' 8bit commodore days, we had one of these gadgets so we could flip 'em over and use the other side

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

good ol capitalism, it’s cheaper to just make all discs double sided and market some as single sided and the others as double for more price …

the disk is still floppy, it just has a hard outer shell for protection.

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