supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down12
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squareyoungalfred@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up63arrow-down2·9 hours agoYou can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 hours agoHard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·8 hours ago… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·5 hours agoWell it’s not a very good one.
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·8 hours agoCan’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
minus-squareKokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 hours agoI bow to thy argumentation.
You can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
Hard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
That’s the joke.
But hard drives came first.
Well it’s not a very good one.
Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
I bow to thy argumentation.