• @voracitude@lemmy.world
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        410 months ago

        That’s weird, I’ve always thought of floppies as pretty durable. The 3.5" ones anyway; the older larger ones were flimsier. On the 3.5" ones the little metal cover would get bent sometimes, or occasionally crushed if someone put one in a back pocket and forgot before they sat down; but in my career I’ve had a lot more thumbdrives broken off in the port than bent/crushed floppies. How did you find most of yours broke? Maybe I had an abundance of clumsy colleagues… or maybe I joined the IT workforce too late to have witnessed the tsunami of broken floppies!

        • Ann Archy
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          510 months ago

          Thumbdrives broken off in the port?? That’s some degenerate levels of sexual frustration coming to light, brother…

          • @voracitude@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            Work in IT as long as I have and if you don’t learn not to judge, you at least learn not to bother judging 😋

            • Ann Archy
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              210 months ago

              Preach it, person. Sysadmin here, the job fades you to humanity.

        • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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          210 months ago

          Bent and crushed floppies were less of a problem than simple failures of reading and writing them, which in my memory happened much more often than they do to USB drives now. I don’t see people breaking usb sticks in half that often either.