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What in the flying fuck is wrong with Jerboa for Lemmy? I can't scroll up past this image now...
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Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
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What even is a good alternative save icon these days?! This is the only save icon I know.
Edit: lmao I’ve gotten so many replies! I love y’all.
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
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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!
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Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
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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.
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Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren't having kids, there is no youth.
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Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
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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…
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Satire no?
Has to be. The Japanese still use fax machines
Yeah. This shit comes around once or twice a year. It’s something to make the younger generations feel special and distanced from their predecessors.
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Back in my day we extruded our own polyester film, coated it with our own rust and cut them into discs free hand! All that for 170K of storage!
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 😂
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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. 
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Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50
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You think it's bad that the save icons have floppy disks?
A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for "database" (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it's running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system
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It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.
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Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
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Why not this?
There was an 8" one before that too.
I dunno man. A brick falling on some guy's head and making his eyes pop out seems like an excessively violent symbol.
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In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, "Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!"
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