Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
Theres something about this sentiment that slightly scares my very soul.
Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
The other day I got a press release about disaster preparedness for grade school kids.
It made mention of teaching kids how to use a battery powered radio to get information. And it suddenly struck me that my 8 year old nephew likely has never even SEEN an FM radio, much less would know how to tune one to a specific station.
Shit like that makes me feel reaaaaaaallllly old…
The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time.
What is that supposed to represent???
Did it ever make sense?
Jesus that makes me feel old and I never once in my life used a floppy drive.
“Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!”
Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.
Jesus Christ, people really do love to make a problem out of anything, as long as it has “Microsoft” on the label, eh?
Onedrive has been known to just randomly break programs like razer synapse and plenty of other things, and also reinstalling itself for no reason. A friend had a game running at 20fps and it was a known issue that onedrive caused it. I would prefer to have things autosave without using something that is acting indistinguishable from a virus.
I once had what I thought was a friend, but who was definitely a teacher. He joked that he brought a floppy disk to his school and his students asked who had 3d printed a save icon.
What in the flying fuck is wrong with Jerboa for Lemmy? I can’t scroll up past this image now…
That happens from time to time. I haven’t been able to find out why, or I’d report it. Leaving and reopening the thread fixes it.
No, that didn’t fix it. After more comments accumulated, the glitch just shifted to a different image comment. Glitch still exists, and I’ve reported and updated my findings with the Jerboa developers community.
Edit: If you care to follow, here’s my post to the Jerboa community…
Yeah, I’ve been having trouble with my feeds not refreshing once I’ve scrolled down to the “bottom” of what has initially loaded. Been driving me bonkers. Shame, because I rather like Jerboa, but I’m probably going to start scouting for alternatives or sacrifice convenience and stick to a desktop browser.
I find myself happy enough with Jerboa. I don’t often experience bugs, but when I do, I make a point to report it to their dev team. They do listen and make a point to iron out the bugs, eventually…
You running latest version? It’s working good for me on this image.
Running version 0.0.84, so pretty recent if not the latest.
I went back to check again after more comments accumulated, and now that image isn’t causing the glitch, but another image is.
I dunno what’s up, but I messaged the Jerboa community with my findings. 🤷
Scroll through all the comments, then try scrolling back up to the top, see what if anything happens. It’s buggy here…
Ok, yeah I’m seeing the issue now, I can scroll down, but ‘infinite’ scroll back up so to speak, where is just throwing what I’m viewing back down a handful of posts etc. Hopefully an easy enough fix for them.
What even is a good alternative save icon these days?! This is the only save icon I know.
Set it in stone.
…maybe something more basic like this:
Back then the version control really was v2 Final Final. The good ol days.
We still do that level of version control. But we used to, too
Sorry for the convenience
A floppy disk is fine, just like Photoshop uses terms like dodge and burn, references to obsolete dark room methods, like cutting and “pasting” were literally how some layout projects worked.
Referencing the last physical incarnation of saving a file seems fitting!
Pretty harsh to the compact disc don’t you think?
You don’t save to a CD, you burn it
CD wasn’t even the last physical media that was adopted widely. Technically I think that may be thumbdrives for now, but there were some tape and disc shaped, but high density for the time (like 20MB to 100MB for the disk shaped one, and 1GB to 2GB tapes.) and named something I don’t remember, media options that were created in the late '90s early '00s before thumbdrives became a thing.
Zip drive?
Zip disk/zip drive? wiki link
It’s just the download button, truly. They already associate that icon with saving files from the web. The down arrow pointing to a rectangle or laptop icon in word or similar app wouldn’t be too ambiguous…
Or, truly, the floppy will just become a nebulous, originless heiroglyph meaning “keep this information for later and let me put it somewhere to find it again,” and some Gen. Beta child will get curious and learn about ye olde days of magnetic media from Wikipedia.
Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
You just described upload and download, not save.
No, download would be a down arrow from a cloud. “Saving” on a modern system typically implies a local cache paired with a cloud backend.
Tell that to anyone needing a large amount of storage that is instantly available; the newest HDDs with 30TB storage hit the central European market this July. Remarkably, the best value offering is a 28TB HDD @ 14,25€ / TB.
Up arrow to a cloud
nice try Microsoft
Up arrow to a cloud
Vomits
Hard to disk drives are still around but you might want to make it look generically like a generic that could also be an SSD just as easy
The difficult part would be depicting a SSD. It’s just a rectangle.
Maybe put a folder inside the rectangle?
And a cloud inside the folder. And a floppy disk inside the cloud.
The chip icon, you know the one next to the other chip icon.
Congratulations on the drugs, I guess
That or posting on mobile while sleep deprived as fuck. Rereading a post made in bed the night prior is always a humbling experience.
Hey they tried! 😂
Realistically the icon could br anything, even the green check emoji: ✅
But if we want to retain the thematic reference to a disk- icon-ify an m.2 2230 or similar and literally just swap em. lol
Image for reference:
This:
Or a Christian cross (“Jesus saves”)
A frog from Mother 3
I once saw a usb thumb drive as an icon. Guess it didn’t take off.
It might be the best actually since they’re still around and, never say never, may not go anywhere. Though a USBA icon will confuse the USBC crowd soon enough.
Maybe a life preserver ring won’t become out of date? 🛟
That’s ‘Help’, not ‘Save’
This is Help
cool, now we got a reference older than the 3.5 inch floppy
Well ackshually this picture spells “NUJV”
Maybe their spelling is what they need help with 🤔
Yeah but that’s awfully anglo-centric. Saving life has nothing to do with saving a file in other languages.
It’s time we upgrade the icon to Zip drives, or maybe Sony memory sticks.
parchment & quill 📜🪶
☁️ is a (rather terrible) way to indicate cloud saving.
I’ve seen an SD card used before.
Yeah it’s old and loses relevance, but we can go older and it circles back to recognizable again
✍️
Or just say the vending machine is because it’s a store and you are storing the data when you save
A disc is also been used for some.
SD card?
Would need to have some sort of drive icon - maybe? - that is unlikely to ever be forgotten… with a down arrow embedded inside.
Hmmm.
That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload
The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented
Man, if only it dispensed actual drinks. But yeah, it used to dispense your whole digital life on 1.44MB. Good times.
A princess in a tower guarded by a dragon, with a knight holding a sword getting ready to swing at the dragon.
Loading circle then checkmark next to filename
An SSD. But not an M.2 because that might be confused for RAM.
A blank rectangle wouldn’t be confusing at all though.
My ssd is literally a 1tb small keychain… There’s too much variation.
Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
Yeah but kids don’t have to file with the gov, their parents do.
Yeah, it seems like Japan of all places should be where people should still have the most familiarity with them
I’m 20 btw.
Lol
These are just what I had handy LMAO I’m also 30+ and still remember dialup so maybe it’s not that impactful either way 😂
Why do individually-sealed diskettes like Kraft Singles feel so wrong?
Because you weren’t alive when they were in use?
Dust kills them. They’d typically be packaged in individual paper envelopes or plastic bags.
I remember when floppies were floppy, kid.
They’re still floppy on the inside.
Sorry to hear about the dementia, old timer.
Oh come on, this is funny. Don’t downvote humor you old farts. I’m old enough to remember when get internet. I was 24 and had to _beg_mom to let us use the free AOL trial.
Once that month was up, we were hooked faster than if we had visited a Chinese opium den in the 1800s.
skshhhhhhhSKHHHHHHHH gnah gnah eeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE
They are fun to use, they sound neat, and they dont give me data overload of a 1 tb hard drive filling up and wondering where all the space went. Sure, all you can use it for is a few text docs or 10 low res pictures, but its at least physical and a lot harder to wreck than a cd.
Come back when you have some punch cards. ;)
That looks like a download button :0
Throw in drawer and forget about forever
No thank you
