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I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only) (feddit.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[–] kat_angstrom 236 points 4 months ago (8 children)
  1. Pick some friends that you like
  2. Download "I Am Never Going To Give You Up" by Rick Roll
  3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
  4. Give the disks away as "fun, retro" drink coasters
  5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] kat_angstrom 58 points 4 months ago

Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] blackbirdbiryani 4 points 4 months ago

They make really good coasters, will recommend.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago

Rick rollercoastered.

[–] ThePantser 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Poor Mr. Astley, forever known as Mr. Roll

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He had his run during the 80s. He's enjoying a second wind with the Rick roll.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 32 points 4 months ago

Make sure to use this version of the song

Floppy Disks - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.ico

while 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think autorun worked with floppy disks, only with CDs and USB units.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference... A drive letter is a drive letter...

[–] Ziglin 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have I just experienced youngsplaining?

[–] AndrewZabar 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fuckin LOVE this!!!! It’s absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!

I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.

[–] kat_angstrom 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AndrewZabar 3 points 4 months ago

Nah it’s awesome. Like you can then tell them β€œHah you’ve been rickrolled” haha.