From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 16:19:17 +0100, Steven Thomsen-Jones wrote:   
      
   > This sent me down a rabbit hole of seeing how much and how easy it   
   > is to get floppy disk drives and disks these days. I had no idea   
   > they were still so readily available! Though looks like only the   
   > 3.5s are still desired. Could be a fun backup option for my .md   
   > files I use for my writing...   
      
   Floppy disks were never “fun” (or maybe they were, briefly, for those   
   who had grown up with cassette tape data storage). They were slow and   
   frequently unreliable. Optical media was far preferable for backups,   
   once CD writers became affordable.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)