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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Although, using floppy disks has the advantage that everyone has to make sure their file sizes are small enough to fit on them. Which makes for much easier handling for those who don't use floppy disks.

What? How is that at all relevant in today's age?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.

A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.

I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ok yea, but it's 6MB, it's inconsequential with today's storage densities and a modern system can handle it with ease

[–] ogmios 18 points 5 months ago

"It's not that big of a deal" repeated enough times, is exactly how our society got to this state in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Not when you have 1000s of files. It adds up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

A month ago i had a customer rating about not being able to upload the new Header image ( 250 MB ), while the error message clearly states: max 5 MB file size allowed. I didn't even know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is how the world ends

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had a student send me the screenshot of a pdf for his homework submission. So, yeah. I guess that's how it ends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How much battery life did their phone have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No idea. It was a laptop screenshot.