I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.

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    1. Pick some friends that you like
    2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
    3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
    4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
    5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
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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.

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          It made me wanna listen to the rest of his music once I actually fully heard Never Gonna Give You Up

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      We use old floppies as coasters!

      I have people all the time ask “these are so cute, where did you get them?”. CompUSA. 25 years ago.

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      just in case someone sticks it in a working drive, add a file to the floppy named

      autorun.inf

      and add the following to it with a text editor:

      [autorun]
      open=Microsoft.Media.Player.exe
      icon=icon.ico
      

      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.

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          I don’t think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference… A drive letter is a drive letter…

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            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, c…) for SSDs, hd(a, b, c…) for HDDs and nvmen(0,1,2…) 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.

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      I fuckin LOVE this!!! It’s absurd in the extreme and yet, so fuckin cool!

      I humbly bow to your greatness of creativity.