Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
https:// www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/ Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Did they send everyone a fax to let them know that floppies are no longer used?
20Are you in Germany? They’re still using fax, predominantly, here. My doctor wanted to fax my records, couldn’t email them to me. I said of course don’t have a fkn fax, it’s 2024. I asked if people still have pots lines for fax machines and she said they use e-fax. There’s your German efficiency!
Anyway, government passed some law saying they have to cease using them (for gov business) by end of 2024. In the meantime, don‘t throw that telegraph out just yet!
10Nah, was mostly just making a joke about the other old tech that Japan was notorious for still using.
Also, I'm really confused WHY eFax is fine but email isn't? I mean, once you lose the verifiability of the phone logs that say your doctor called you at 2:15pm and send 3 pages of shit, uh, you might as well just email a PDF. (Note: I'm in the US and the 'verifiable transmission' thing was why/how we did it for a long time, but that died in about 10 seconds when someone figured out that email was cheaper.)
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They're moving to CD-ROM!
16They're moving to ZIP Disks!
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Okay for real though... storage size? Terrible I agree.
But I've been kinda obsessed lately with the form factor of diskettes. They're:
- Not super easy to lose (looking
atfor you, nanoSD) - They're easily labeled.
- Unlike flash drives, aren't vulnerable to snagging and getting ripped out of the machine or damaging the port when inserted.
- Easily stacked or filed away.
- Most importantly: Make a nice satisfying "ka-chunk" when inserting into a drive.
- Satisfyingly fly out of said drive when you push the eject button firmly.
Nowadays, if we made a diskette that basically replaced the magnetic disc with flash memory, and the shutter protected the connectors, you could hypothetically store like 1TB in that space, it could likely be read super fast, and would obviously be way more reliable than the old "Oh no a speck of dust ruined my 2MB file" of old floppies.
I'd even settle for an open standard akin to Sony's chunky little Memory Sticks...I liked those.
2- Not super easy to lose (looking
so what's wrong with floppy disks?
2Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.
USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)
4You need several million of them and the rest of your lifetime to boot up the latest call of duty.
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And they think people have drug problems. 🤣
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