I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
Sell them. There is a market for that.
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
You build your own floppotron of course
That was amazing… so much free time and hydro!
Label in sharpie as “Bitcoin password” and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
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!
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 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?
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they’re all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
You… don’t know what a floppy disk is, do you?
I do, I just don’t pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy.
Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.
What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren’t that reflective.
I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.
Now I’m going to have to rethink my whole thing.
I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
It probably means you can complain any time about a manufacturing defect, but not anything else.
Anyway, the terms should be printed somewhere on the box or in a paper inside.
Usually just means the expected lifetime of the product
Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf
Find a way to convert them into triangle shaped disks
Those work with the Sabre Pyramid.
They also work with a Phalanx XR-12
Ew. Hexagons are the bestagons
Ha! That was a good one.
(I’ll be surprised if anyone gets the reference I made lol)
Press them to make a real world save point.
- Pick some friends that you like
- Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
- Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
- Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
- Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named
autorun.inf
and add the following to it with a text editor:
[autorun] open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe icon=icon.icowhile i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there’s probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven’t used windows in years.
I don’t think autorun worked with floppy disks, only with CDs and USB units.
I don’t think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference… A drive letter is a drive letter…
There are USB headers, PCI(-E) slots, SATA and some older ones. To get storage devices working on each one you will need a different driver.
Windows disabled autorun for USB sticks before win10.
Also if you list the devices on Linux they will show up as sd(a, b, c…) for SSDs, hd(a, b, c…) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2…) for NVMe drives. So yes the OS must be able to differentiate.
Windows assigning letters is just weird IMO.
Also to my knowledge the floppy would show up as disk A on Windows.
Have I just experienced youngsplaining?
this…is a great idea!
Especially since I have friends who will go to some effort to find out what’s on the disk out of curiosity.Make sure to name the file inconspicuously but temptingly, relating to the old days, like Bill Gates confession.mp3 or DJ Mike Llama - Llama Whippin’ Intro.mp3
They make really good coasters, will recommend.
Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad
I fuckin LOVE this!!! It’s absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!
I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.
Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I’m not very good at those, it turns out
Nah it’s awesome. Like you can then tell them “Hah you’ve been rickrolled” haha.
Make sure to use this version of the song
Poor Mr. Astley, forever known as Mr. Roll
He had his run during the 80s. He’s enjoying a second wind with the Rick roll.
It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up
could make a nice, nutritious breakfast
Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That’s what we used to do with them lol
Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.
Print your business cards on them.
Run Doom on them?
Don’t copy that floppy.
Buy doom on steam, download and backup the install files on the floppy
