I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
- 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
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.Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad
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.
Rick rollercoastered.
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
Make sure to use this version of the song
We use old floppies as coasters!
I have people all the time ask “these are so cute, where did you get them?”. RadioShack. 25 years ago.
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?
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.
Label in sharpie as “Bitcoin password” and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
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?
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 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!
Dude. RAID.
If this is wrong, I’m not sure I want to be right.
Oh my gosh, that’s incredible. It’s so cool to compare it to This one from 12 years ago
I am in awe
Don’t think I’ve ever picked out harder while taking a shit! 🤘
Click on them to save your files.
Just carry one around with you and whenever something important happens or you are about to do something risky, pull it out, press it with your finger and loudly say “Save”.
Edit: Bonus points for carrying a huge cardboard mouse pointer to click with.
Edit 2: I really should read all the replies before starting to type.
Hitting the save right before the murder spree.
Big open world RPG protagonist vibes
Download a car
You wouldn’t dare
Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture… like in the film hackers
Or throw a diskette in the trash while being chased by the police, then yell “HACK THE PLANET!” from the back of the police car.
Righteous hack!
Sell them as 3D printed save icons.
That would possibly work
LoL, you made me crack
Thank them for the retro-themed coaster set
“Omg, you 3D-printed a save icon!”
I think we finally threw out the last of our diskettes about a decade ago - most were too corrupted to recover anything useful. I guess I could 3D print one now …
I actually bought some online about a year ago because I’m doing some retro stuff. I even got a usb floppy drive.
I probably still have a USB floppy drive in the Bin of Peripherals. Haven’t really actively worked with floppies since 2012 though.
Ok, this is a sidetrack but hear me out. Floppy disks would make awful coasters. A coaster has to be somewhat absorbent to avoid spilling condensation water on the table. This is why cork is the most popular material for coasters. The best coasters are a cloth top over a cork shape with a plastic rim and a felt bottom. This ensures total protection to the table and gives enough freedom to be creative with shapes, prints, colors and figures. The novelty printed plastic disks are the worst coasters possible, and floppy disks will only drip all over the table defeating the purpose of a coaster.
Laser-cut wooden floppies
What a Buzz Killington.
I know, I agree. It’s just, I’m tired of people using bad coasters then complaining when they stick to the bottom of their glass spilling condensation water all over their lap and shirt. This is the reason that happens. That said, I would totally love to have good floppy disk look alike coasters. But being given an actual one as a coaster won’t amuse me, it would make me groan.
Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some ‘redacted’ papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you ‘forget’ them at each drop point.
Conspicously leaving random packages around town is how you get the bomb squad called and you wind up in an interogation room.
Well OP did say wrong answers only.
Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.
Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.
Aaahhhhhhhh the aroma of 1995.
The cleanest breath you’ll ever take
Nah, probably smells like cigarettes
Plastic offgassing mmmhmmhm
Delicious cancer
Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.
Wow, those floppy drives are really singin’. Heheh
Had no idea you could actually do this.
How’d I know it would be action retro
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it’s microwave safe
I cook Arch btw
ding!
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
OP said wrong answers only.
If fucking Citibank has one goddamn floppy drive living in a building somewhere I will shove a Frisbee down my throat until I can’t see it anymore.
Don’t forget to make up a Da Vinci virus to sink ships and blame it on hackers in case shit hits the fan.
