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   a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:29:22 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

   LB: It's funny, like my take is like 80% the opposite of this; the 3.5" is overdesigned in ways that don't fundamentally protect it the ways people use it in real life, but make it bulkier and give it new failure modes

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:29:33 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     Like if you encounter somebody's old personal 5 1/4" floppy in the wild it's probably in its jacket and stored somewhere flat like a binder because this was necessary; you encounter a personal 3.5" floppy in the wild and it has spent time in the bottom of a bookbag with no further protection and is somewhat gunked up and maybe the shutter is bent and doesn't work right on its own anymore

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     And like, most of the badness of the 3.5" is to do with the ecosystems around them, like if you're using a 5.25" in real life it's 1986 and you're using a floppy-only machine and the drive is serviced properly because if it fails the system is useless and you fix it right away, whereas the average 3.5" is in the 90s / early 00s in some godforsaken lab or corporate desk machine and someone is trying to transfer some important file off a floppy in a drive that has never been cleaned since day 1

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     The 3.5" is designed so that people can dress them up by putting on their custom sized sticky label that pointlessly wraps around the disk and then cosplay that they're solid state storage, they're basically the answer to the question of "how can we implement a storage system that has the aesthetics of this specific TV prop"

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     It's tempting to draw a parallel of this situation with the CD vs the CD caddy or minidisc, and comparing the ordinary CD jewel case to the little paper envelope the 5 1/4" floppy comes in, the paper envelope has one key property: people actually used it