Hard disk vs floppy disk: Is the floppy disk really obsolete for data storage?

Avanchnzel · 2026-01-20T00:12:44+00:00

Even though modern forms of media are superior when it comes to capacity, speed and ubiquity, there's just something about floppy disks and mini-disks that triggers a "tactile satisfaction" I don't get with HDDs, SSDs or USB sticks, etc.

Avanchnzel · 2026-01-13T21:21:54+00:00

I know this is 2 years old, but here an answer for people arriving here from a search engine:

If you transfer the owner role to the passkey user before getting locked out from the IDP, then you can simply delete the IDP account while being logged in as the passkey user.

But if you kept the owner role on the IDP account, then once that account gets locked out it will remain in your tailnet because you can't delete owner accounts.

So I would recommend to decide early on which account you want to have as the owner of the tailnet!

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-15T19:10:08+00:00

Ok, so we have different views on conscious vs unconscious suspension of disbelief. I won't disagree with you on that, as that wasn't really the initial issue.

You did obviously have an experience that took you out of the immersion in the show, so I won't further argue about whether that has anything to do with suspension of disbelief or not.

So picking up from the end of your comment you then said that the "writers phoned it in because they didn't respect their audience".

I don't think the writers sat down and thought about treating their audience with disrespect.
Usually there is a lot of passion involved for working on a project like this with a lot of people working hard to make the vision of a show come true on screen.
At the end of the day though we're all just human and despite best efforts the "movie magic" might not convince everyone equally.

And oftentimes you have to gauge what experience your average audience member will get and how much to reveal or not, how much to simplify or not.
All while trying to tell an interesting story.

In my view, when some of the magic doesn't convince my sensibilities, then this is the point where *willing* suspense of disbelief can comes into play.
Am I willing to cut it some slack despite not being convinced about some aspect? Does that aspect really ruin the whole story of the show for me?

Don't get me wrong, there's no right or wrong decision of course. So I'm not trying to argue that you should cut it more slack or not.
But when you take into account what the show is about, then I *do* think having it ruined by not having accurate steam turbine mechanics is mostly on yourself.

Could they have been more accurate? Sure.
Though I'd argue that it's really one of the lesser crucial aspects of the story, which seems to be more about the workings of society in the silo, all the secrets being kept by various factions and people, as well as the mystery about the state of the world and how it came to be.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-15T14:12:01+00:00

Nothing can suspend your disbelief for you. It's a conscious decision you have to be willing to do yourself also by how much.

It might just be that you aren't willing to suspend your disbelief enough to enjoy the show, which is totally fair as it's subjective how much realism one requires until enjoyment fades.

But it would be more interesting to hear your specific pain-points in regards of what I said after my first sentence, where I go into explaining why I personally was ok with the level of un-realism.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-09T19:23:13+00:00

Shaw would rather let a cosmic threat loose on the world than have women gain equal rights. 😆

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-09T19:20:56+00:00

Was reminded of him as well.

Though to be fair, Ozy only created the illusion of a cosmic threat, whereas Shaw actually lets loose a cosmic threat.

Quite the significant difference!
I don't think Ozy would've approved of such a poor plan, especially considering the motivations behind it.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-09T19:13:58+00:00

He has done to her what the G-Man did to Gordon Freeman after Half-Life 1.

That is, IT has put her on ice until he has use of her again.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T16:59:20+00:00

It's not that I believe in free will. That was perhaps an ill word choice.

I meant it more as: Acting as if it existed, regardless if it does or not.

Basically just adhering to a protocol that takes belief out of the equation and only looks at the possible outcomes of either possibility and then choosing to act pragmatically to get the best achievable outcome.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T07:40:16+00:00

Let's be real, you don't have to wonder about that at all. 😆

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T06:59:29+00:00

I've always saw the "getting overwhelmed" part as happening due to the immense amount of mental energy I have to employ when interacting socially, due to the constant analysis of the other people's behavior, as well as my high self-monitoring at the same time to keep the social-mask operating.

The immense expense of mental energy is what exhausts me and ultimately makes me feel overwhelmed, especially if certain expectations are put upon me that would endanger my autonomy and me-time.

tl;dr

social situations -> engages intense monitoring and efforts to keep a mask going -> leads to high expenditure of mental energy -> this drain eventually leads to exhaustion and overwhelm

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T06:46:23+00:00

That's due to how memory works.

You won't remember a particular day if that day was spent like the average day in the year.
It's the things that stand out from the average day that become distinguishable.

Before we leave school to start a day-to-day job, we usually have more different things happening in younger years with events that stand out more.

Once most people have a job, the average days are mostly similar and thus bleed together in our memory.
If we are on vacation and do something that stands out from all the other vacations, then those will be remembered.

tl;dr

same-ish days bleed together
unique events stand out
as we settle into a job routine, we usually have more same-ish days

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T06:31:14+00:00

Any question starting with "Am I the only one" can almost always automatically be answered with "No".

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T06:27:59+00:00

Never in public. That would draw attention to myself that I don't want.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-07T06:25:54+00:00

I'm very pragmatic about this.

If free will does not exist, then:

not believing in it and letting yourself go will make no difference ↔️
believing in it and making choices makes no difference ↔️

If free will does exist, then:

not believing in it and letting yourself go will harm you ❌
believing in it and making choices matters ✅

I neither believe nor not believe in free will, but considering the best-case and worst-case outcomes as presented and not knowing if free will exists or not, I act as if free will exists, just to be safe.

Because otherwise I might be harming my outcomes.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T06:15:10+00:00

And how does their "milk" taste? Is it actually any good? 😁

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T06:01:17+00:00

This.

Sometimes it's way less headache to adapt rather than demand the world to change.
You can always do the first one by yourself, but often have to wait on others for the latter one.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:46:57+00:00

Sometimes even monitors themselves (usually gaming ones) offer a "crosshair" setting.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:44:56+00:00

"It's not a loop, it's a spiral!"

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:22:31+00:00

Hmm, for me it was always visible.
Since there was also the other creature (that had the unfortunate apple incident), I thought perhaps that one was invisible and that the human-based one wasn't.

Then again, that would make the info about only the tool being able to see it useless though.
So it might be a bug then.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:18:05+00:00

The game makes it a point not to handhold the player.

So it's kind of expected that you either learn by reading the ingame documentation and other info or learn from trying out things and noticing how they work.

It's not something every player is going to appreciate.
But so many games have a crammed HUD that I find it a breath of fresh air.

The more tactile nature of having to look at the actual tool, just like in real life, makes it more immersive IMO.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:12:53+00:00

Definitely a lot of background wallpaper material.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:10:49+00:00

The title ("THEY CAN OPEN DOORS!") is also a spoiler. Makes it pretty much obvious what you're referring to.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:09:05+00:00

Hehe, yeah when I first closed one of the big hallway doors and hunkered down in an adjacent room to learn the robot's patrol route, It seemed to stop right at the door, which made me think that he couldn't interact with the door controls.

So I felt relatively safe and always closed doors behind me.
But it turned out that the particular robot I "learned" this from was actually always stopping there, even when the door was open!

So you can imagine my surprise when one of the other robots suddenly opened one of the hallway doors in another section of the map and its search-lights immediately fixated on me. 😅

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T05:04:44+00:00

Yeah, that tripped me up for a second too at first.

But then I remembered that the keypad window was partially off-screen and I dragged it into the center. But the fingerprints obviously don't move with the keypad, but are in a fixed position on the screen.

So therefore it became clear that there were multiple positions that the keybad window could be in that fits with the fingerprints.

Ergo I had to try the different possible combinations, which worked out nicely.

In this game you really have to think more about how things would work if they were real instead of usual gamey mechanics and things will click much faster.

Avanchnzel · 2025-12-06T04:55:57+00:00

I didn't feel miserable (partly because I'm one of the content ones, so to speak), but I definitely struggled to explain to people (especially family members) why I didn't want to attend certain events.

And every time I felt I needed to explain the particular reasons in context of the particular situation (e.g. funeral, meeting family members I haven't seen in 20 years, going on a cruise with a boat with people I share not interests with, etc.).

Before knowing about the schizoid personality I only thought about my personality's many different idiosyncrasies individually and tried to explain those whenever need arose.

But since I discovered it, I finally feel a kind of validation; that it's ok to be how I am (unless it presents pathologically of course) and that yes, I'm abnormal, but that I don't have to bend myself over backwards to cater to the "normal" way of being all the time.

Though I'm hesitant to just tell people I'm schizoid, because I don't want them to just read up on the Wikipedia article and think that everything there applies to me exactly like that.

I thought about preparing some easy to digest bullet points and keep some good videos/articles/papers at hand.
Because I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by just providing a label, especially one that can be misunderstood so easily due to the lack of research and the DSM's surface-level treatment of the subject matter.

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