Not sure how you can be romantic about a floppy disc…
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as someone who used them the other day, i am not.
stupid things are slow and now degrading so read/write errors everywhere! 
Guys, you can use the floppy disk as a coaster for a mug of beer.
My first computer (Texas Instruments TI-994A) had a cassette tape drive for backup. I also had video games as a kid before this where you had to put a physical plastic overlays on your screen. Called an Odyssey. And yes, my first tech support job involved backing up computers with 100s of floppy disk at a time. Fun :-). It’s amazing how much they could fit on discs back then without all the bloat that happens today. When we got that first 1 MB expansion card that was a big deal.
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The whole DOS OS was on three floppy disks. How many GB is a Win11 download?
Imagine Win11 download on a 300bps acoustic coupler…
Why would I do that when I still have a life time supply of AOL CDs?
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Summa summarum a CD is better than a floppy disk when flooded with beer.
I miss free internet 
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But so does light mode. Change to dark mode to reduce glare and how bright the monitor is driven. Will save more resources than the clock.
As to seconds, more time is wasted on all the background W11 bloat \ AI (Adverts Inserted) \ CoPilot \ OEM crap \ etc than displaying the time. I didn’t bother reading the article as it looks like clickbait as why would someone even bother checking that. (or enabling seconds)
Shock news - using resources more uses up battery resources quicker. 
Battery saving tip - don’t turn laptop on.
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Like other browsers, it’s supposed to add your search engines progressively to this list as you are using them on their respective websites.
Personally I have been using duckduckgo as default search engine for years, even if they are unfortunately not updating their bangs (another example of broken bang that I have reported many many times in months but they will now never fix, update or add them any more).
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Jesus
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Did you know that Edge browser can be installed on macOS and Linux?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MA13LE
No risk, no fun. 
I use the discs from 3.5" hard disks for that. They are beautiful.
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Turn them into a wind chime… all that reflection bonus on a sunny day.
Magnets out of that hard disk are pretty handy too.
Do you clean up TEMP files on Windows?
I use three steps:
- Settings ==> System ==> Storage ==> Temporary Files
- Disk Clean-up, cleanmgr.exe command
- Manually empty the directories:
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Users***\AppData\Local\Temp
Glenn Macdonald, who you might know for EveryNoise (the unofficial explorer for Spotify genres), was laid off from Spotify recently. A shame, as ridiculous as Spotify’s genres can get it was a pretty interesting look at how tastes and sounds were grouped together.
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A quicker method… format c:
Oh - and for C:\Users***\AppData\Local\Temp type %TEMP% as it is less to type
You talking to me ?
I do this once every two/three months.
I set Windows like an automaton.