Stamets@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 24 days agoWill it ever change?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1286
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minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·24 days 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-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-224 days 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.