Symbolism

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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).

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

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That's ugly af, and first time I've seen it.

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Path dependency

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I wouldn't peg that as the save. It looks like a download button. I get it within the context of skumorphism, but that down arrow icon already pretty universally means download.

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After he masters that, get him an MFM or RLL hard drive and teach him to low level format it and set the best interleave.

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Planet will be fine and livable. It will be different, but livable. Even most nuclear war scenarios will not destroy everything, just most populated areas by now.

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You can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain't dead.

But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.

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My Fedora KDE native applications do. But downloaded software still uses the floppy icon if those developers want to.

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Does any of that matter to the planet? Like any of the ancient plants and critters that have come and gone, humans will have their time and then pass from existence and memory. Something new and different will replace us.

Such is evolution.

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nuh uh, mine's a banana.

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That's not true, this is the current version in Arch Linux and it's a floppy.

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It's unlikely that people will go extinct, but we're perfectly capable of creating a Mad Max or Fallout type of world.

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I don't think it's "ugly", but the first time I used that editor, I was like "Where's the damn Save button?" I had to hover over them to get the tooltips so I could tell. The Open button is just as bad--it looks like it would be Print!

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OG was the even larger physically / smaller data storage 8" floppy

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#justMicrosoftPlus!ForWindows95things

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Does any of that matter to the solar system? I mean, one of the planets has some molecules that combine in complex ways. Big deal.

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Liveable, maybe. But, maybe miserable. Like, the planet was liveable for hunter-gatherers during the ice age, but lives were short and brutal. We could be headed back in that direction.

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It may not be aesthetically displeasing, but functionally so.

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Man, Nero's designs were so gaudy, i miss them