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vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks

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vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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    The floppy disk is 60 years old. In which universe is migrating away from 60-year-old technology “moving fast and breaking stuff”?!

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      What are they moving to? Because that’s what the comment is referencing. The new tech they are moving to, not the old tech.

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      Fuck. You just reminded me of my age.

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        Yeah, me too. I can’t move fast anymore, but I can certainly break stuff 🤣

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          Your own back and hips?

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            You saw me, uh?

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