Remember a Decepticon that transformed into a cassette?
Gotta be at some very specific places to fool people with that in 2023
Poor Soundwave, he and his minions are obsolete! Maybe they can get upgrades so he transforms into an MP3 player and they transform into SD cards.
Leading to intergalactic war accidentally started by DankPods.
Soundwave was prepared for humans to be hostile to his kind.
He hadn’t counted on the 1 grit.
To say nothing of his new rival, Scarlet Fire.
There is already an actual flash drive version of Ravage.
I can’t believe this doesn’t have Tom Cruise.
Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense
A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.
Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.
In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here
I was going to guess LS120 (a.k.a. “superdisc”), but that’s not it.
Turns out after some searching that it looks like 3.5" magneto-optical.
I’ve never heard of that format before. These things are neat.
Yeah that was the episode where shredder had some software that could create holographic clones of people. But Bebop and Rocksteady fucked up and caused the machine to make Shredder behave like Michaelangelo.
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The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.
EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).
The thing with random internet replies: you never know if it’s true (you could look it up, but that would make life to easy).
So this is or:
- really scary
- unbelievable smart cause nobody knows how to use them
- not true
Probably there are some other options but I’ll go for a combination of the first and second one and hoping for the third
It boils down to “never change a running system”
Laughs in Linux
It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.
Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.
Yup, we don’t want it to crash.
Eh? You can verify bit for bit that a digital transfer off an SSD was successful.
yea but SSDs are not reliable enough. random bit flips from cosmic events, degradation of data if unpowered for a long time, can only be written to so many times
they are VERY reliable for casual PC use or even server storage but not for something that could start ww3 if it glitches
also, as some other people said, dont change something that already works
That has nothing to do with file transfer (“updating”), just long term storage. It’s also a solved problem. You can solve it at the software level with modern self-healing filesystems.
Doing a bit of research online, my info is slightly out of date. They used floppy disks from 1968 to 2019. In 2019, they migrated from the old 8 inch floppy to “highly secure solid-state storage”. They don’t specify what type of solid state storage they actually use now though.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
Thanks this makes me feel (a bit) more secure…
I’d guess it’s one of these.
The R in smart looked like an H at first. Was wondering if they made these in Maine.
3.5" is much more solid than 8" floppies.
Fair point
“Highly secure solid-state storage”
Probably used the same encryption scheme on an SD card adapter that plugs directly into the floppy drive lol.
Like one of those old cassette tapes with a headphone cable when MP3 players first came out and cars didn’t have adapters? Lol
Nowadays it’s microSD cards.
I mean, microSD makes for much more interesting drama. You can hide it in the lining of a suit, sew it underneath the skin, hide it in a ball point pen, in your pet. MicroSd drama is much more sneaky.
Nah. Nuclear launch sites just retired 8" floppies required for launch verification like maybe 5 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
They are truly iconic.
Nowadays it’s all data crystals.
Stargate did it.
Babylon 5 as well.
And Star Trek and Star Wars and probably Galaxy Quest
Here me out:
Let’s go back to floppy disk drives but with SSD nvme hardware.
That would be awesome. I hate having to find a cable to plug my SSD into. If it was simply a card that could be inserted into a slot, that would be so much easier.
You can get a housing that lets you pop it in and out
For external SSD?
Woolsey! We need a stargate community :D
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Look it’s the EMH… Err ummm. ❤️❤️❤️
what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s
SAVING THE WORLD
Those are the only times when it’s appropriate to insert a 3 1/2 inch floppy.
