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this...is a great idea!
Especially since I have friends who will go to some effort to find out what's on the disk out of curiosity.
Lol whoops, I meant to give a wrong answer, my bad
Make sure to name the file inconspicuously but temptingly, relating to the old days, like Bill Gates confession.mp3 or DJ Mike Llama - Llama Whippin' Intro.mp3
They make really good coasters, will recommend.
Rick rollercoastered.
Poor Mr. Astley, forever known as Mr. Roll
He had his run during the 80s. He's enjoying a second wind with the Rick roll.
It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up
Make sure to use this version of the song
Floppy Disks - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
We use old floppies as coasters!
I have people all the time ask "these are so cute, where did you get them?". RadioShack. 25 years ago.
just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named
and add the following to it with a text editor:
while i doubt it will actually work, if it does, it would be quite hilarious in my opinion. there's probably, hopefully, safeguards that prevent such a thing from working and i likely have the syntax wrong, i haven't used windows in years.
I don't think autorun worked with floppy disks, only with CDs and USB units.
I don't think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference... A drive letter is a drive letter...
There are USB headers, PCI(-E) slots, SATA and some older ones. To get storage devices working on each one you will need a different driver.
Windows disabled autorun for USB sticks before win10.
Also if you list the devices on Linux they will show up as sd(a, b, cβ¦) for SSDs, hd(a, b, cβ¦) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2β¦) for NVMe drives. So yes the OS must be able to differentiate.
Windows assigning letters is just weird IMO.
Also to my knowledge the floppy would show up as disk A on Windows.
Have I just experienced youngsplaining?
I fuckin LOVE this!!!! Itβs absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!
I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.
Thanks! I was intending for it to be more of a shitpost, but I guess I'm not very good at those, it turns out
Nah itβs awesome. Like you can then tell them βHah youβve been rickrolledβ haha.
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