Asklemmy @lemmy.ml superkret @feddit.org 3mo ago

I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)

I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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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
  
  Floppy Disks - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
- 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.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.
  
  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.
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