The OG fidget toy. My uncle used to hate it when I did this.
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What you think every school kid was doing 30 years ago?
fidgeting with the shutter ofc
Work at a retirement place. We get performers through on occasion.
Saw a dude with catalogue of floppies. Dude claimed he got burnt by a usb on occasion so he went back to floppies. I was enraptured.
He reeked of cigarettes and was still a road performer in his 60s
@TwoBeeSan @dosuser123456 Where does one even buy floppies any more?
There seems to be still plenty of refurbs and "new old stock" on the market.
In Japan, convenience stores sold packs of blank floppy diskettes up until around 2015.
Also remember seeing VHS, Hi-8, audio cassette, DAT, mini-DV, MiniDisc… You can still buy a short spindle of CD-Rs and individual DVD+Rs.
i dont buy em i just get em off the old floppy box in the basement (theres some wing commander disks in there i used to grab to play the game on the homebox back when it was a 2001 tower and not a 2020 laptop)
What does a 60-something retirement home road performer store on floppy disks, exactly
His queued mixes i believe.
He would be doing vocals/guitar and play the song without whatever he was going to do via his board
Could be wrong but only conclusion could draw from his bizarre setup
Always ods to see patients using better tech then the carers?
its all fun an games until someone needs to reset their pacemaker!
those pacemaker reset magnets are cool!
lolwhut
Old tech was built to satisfy. You could also open and close the write protect tab, or use a pencil to rotate the disk itself.
oh man yes that too (i usually use my fingers to rotate it tho since my nails are kinda long tho, but same thing)
seriously the 3,5 inch floppies are too satisfying to fidget with
so is opening and closing the cd tray for some reason
ive done this a lot, but also spent so much time in my life dealing with corruption on floppies that i have to cringe a bit inside as well
is this you or uwna32?
BRUH
I did this at school a lot, where we had to use these to store our files created during class. But I preferred to slide one finger over what is the top edge in the OP, because there is a small gap where you can catch the slide. I found this much more satisfying.
...somehow i never thought abt that
also uhhhhh dont ask why tf a 14 year old has floppies at home
edit: if anyone wonders why the camera is so shaky, turns out its quite hard to hold a camera with your legs so that the thing you wanna record is always in the vid while youre moving your hands a lot in it