Stamets to People [email protected] • 1 month agoWill it ever change?imagemessage-square32arrow-up1291arrow-down112
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minus-square@aeronmelonlink8•1 month agoI remember for a brief time Microsoft started using a CD as the save icon in their office applications. They actually had to revert it to a diskette so people knew what it meant.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-21 month agoWell, a CD is an absolutely stupid symbol for writable media, because even the state of the art CD-RWs could only be written to about 1k times, the practical limit is much lower. It’s just not the medium for regular writes.
I remember for a brief time Microsoft started using a CD as the save icon in their office applications.
They actually had to revert it to a diskette so people knew what it meant.
Well, a CD is an absolutely stupid symbol for writable media, because even the state of the art CD-RWs could only be written to about 1k times, the practical limit is much lower. It’s just not the medium for regular writes.