Symbolism

[schmidtgenetics@lemmy.world]

Yeah the program, but buddy said the burn BUTTON, that’s a flaming disc for a play on that pun too.

Two different icons, and OP specified the wrong one.

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

There's KDE software (might be a Linux-wide thing, idk) that changed it to a down arrow pointing to a rectangle. I don't like it. I really don't fucking like it.

[qaz@lemmy.world]

Those icons probably come from the default breeze dataset

[sockpuppet5@lemmy.world]

And so will the hover (unless anti-gravity).

[dev_null@lemmy.ml]

Which never happens yet everyone repeats it as if it's a common occurrence.

I like the joke, but let's not pretend this is something that happens.

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

I want to say the game Soviet Republic Workers and Resources uses the exact iconography I described including for cloud savings vs locally but I could be misremembering

[tomenzgg@midwest.social]

By that argument, it looks like an SD card.

I'd argue that the insanely satisfying stim toy shutter of the floppy keeps it unique, though.

[jokklmaster@lemmy.world]

People probably said similar at the fall of every empire throughout history. People will endure and build anew. Life finds a way.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Most other empires didn't have the ability to destroy the ecosphere of the planet they lived on.

The modern empires can do it not just on purpose using nuclear weapons, but also accidentally through climate change.

Life will find a way, but will civilization? And will the dominant species still be humans?

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

It's similar to an arrowhead, but is it actually an arrowhead? Or is it just an arrow?

[jokklmaster@lemmy.world]

Yep. And yep.

[pastermil@sh.itjust.works]

It's still floppy disk here

[pastermil@sh.itjust.works]

Got me real curious. What app? Care to share a screenshot?

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

It's interesting how that precedent happened though.

30 years ago saving something basically involved taking a floppy, putting it into the floppy drive, and then hitting a "save" button. That was often because computers didn't even have a hard drive. And, when they did have a hard drive, having your files on a floppy drive was basically the only way to get them onto another computer. So, because of that, a floppy drive was pretty universally recognized as a place where you saved files.

In the time since then, saving to a hard drive became more common. But, it's hard to use a hard drive as an image for "save" because only computer geeks know what a hard drive actually looks like. Even if you could get people to recognize a hard drive icon it's also ambiguous because you use your hard drive for many other things other than saving. Finally, it's also less necessary to put the save files on external media, because you can email them, upload them, save to the cloud, etc.

The only physical media where people still save things is USB thumb drives. So, you could put in an image of a USB thumb drive, which more people would recognize, but that's more ambiguous because people only save files to a thumb drive in certain specific cases. It's also harder because there's not really a globally recognized thumb drive image. All floppy drives had to look more or less identical because of the constraints of the disk drive system. But, USB drives only have to have the USB part in common -- and in some cases that's hideable or retractable.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.

A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter's rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there's going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.

[bytemeister@lemmy.world]

Missing the haft and fletching.

[tankovayadiviziya@lemmy.world]

ThatsANoformeDawg.jpg

[leadore@lemmy.world]

Me neither, it looks like it should mean "download".

[leadore@lemmy.world]

Here are the icons in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon. Save is the third from the left (the first 2 are New and Open).

[bss03@infosec.pub]

The Floppy Disk is Computer Jesus. They both died to become the universal symbol of salvation.