Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoPrisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey systemwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down12
arrow-up1243arrow-down1external-linkPrisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey systemwww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareSoapbox@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·22 days agoI know the flash drive ban is about being able to hide files or have a bootable alternative OS. But floppy disks have a that metal slide cover that could easily be made into a shiv. Unless they can only have the kind with plastic slides.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoYou can’t boot Linux from 20 floppy disks?
minus-squareSoapbox@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoI mean… Yeah, you technically can. But it won’t be a particularly modern or useful OS.
I know the flash drive ban is about being able to hide files or have a bootable alternative OS.
But floppy disks have a that metal slide cover that could easily be made into a shiv. Unless they can only have the kind with plastic slides.
You can’t boot Linux from 20 floppy disks?
I mean… Yeah, you technically can. But it won’t be a particularly modern or useful OS.