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Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For profit prisons. Bet they sell floppies for like 10 times what they should cost, which honestly should be free since it’s essentially trash nowadays.

Well unless you’re me and you have this idea for a giant wall art piece of old school pixelated graphics made from colored floppies connected together. Yes I’m a nerd. But if you have any old floppies you want rid of hit me up.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surely it’d be cheaper for them to switch to a more common media like cheap, crappy flash drives than sourcing out floppy drives?

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

give them some ssd drives and the latest windows update.. at least they'll learn how to troubleshoot.