Nero burning program used an icon of the colosseum on fire to represent their burn button.
I see no issue with using a floppy disk.
That’s wasn’t just a disc….?
That’s the program, the burn button ITSELF is a flaming Disc.
The pointer icon is an arrowhead, ~74000 years old. I don’t want to hear people complaining about how old the floppy disk is.
It’s similar to an arrowhead, but is it actually an arrowhead? Or is it just an arrow?
Missing the shaft and fletching.
nuh uh, mine’s a banana. 🍌
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Not a d scimmy?
The idea that human society will make it to 4269 as well as the old Twitter logo at the bottom really dates this one. 😥
People probably said similar at the fall of every empire throughout history. People will endure and build anew. Life finds a way.
Most other empires didn’t have the ability to destroy the ecosphere of the planet they lived on.
The modern empires can do it not just on purpose using nuclear weapons, but also accidentally through climate change.
Life will find a way, but will civilization? And will the dominant species still be humans?
Yep. And yep.
Planet will be fine and livable. It will be different, but livable. Even most nuclear war scenarios will not destroy everything, just most populated areas by now.
Liveable, maybe. But, maybe miserable. Like, the planet was liveable for hunter-gatherers during the ice age, but lives were short and brutal. We could be headed back in that direction.
Does any of that matter to the planet? Like any of the ancient plants and critters that have come and gone, humans will have their time and then pass from existence and memory. Something new and different will replace us.
Such is evolution.
Does any of that matter to the solar system? I mean, one of the planets has some molecules that combine in complex ways. Big deal.
No it does not. Nor does the universe bother about galaxies. The point is that all things that exist have their time under the sun and then pass so something new and different can take it’s place.
It’s huberous of the highest order to think everything will continue on as it is right now, And to try and preserve it all for your personal comfort.
“Huberous”?
It’s unlikely that people will go extinct, but we’re perfectly capable of creating a Mad Max or Fallout type of world.
There’s KDE software (might be a Linux-wide thing, idk) that changed it to a down arrow pointing to a rectangle. I don’t like it. I really don’t fucking like it.
Me neither, it looks like it should mean “download”.
Those icons probably come from the default breeze dataset
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That’s not true, this is the current version on Arch and it’s a floppy.
Huh, interesting. It’s probably my icon theme, then. I’ll check when I get a chance.
Got me real curious. What app? Care to share a screenshot?
Here are the icons in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon. Save is the third from the left (the first 2 are New and Open).
I wouldn’t peg that as the save. It looks like a download button. I get it within the context of skumorphism, but that down arrow icon already pretty universally means download.
That’s ugly af, and first time I’ve seen it.
I don’t think it’s “ugly”, but the first time I used that editor (with the new icons, that is–it used to have the traditional icons) I was like “Where’s the damn Save button?” I had to hover over them to get the tooltips so I could tell. The Open button is just as bad–it looks like it would be Print!
It may not be aesthetically displeasing, but functionally so.
That screenshot looks disgusting. Unsharp font, irritating icons, weird fontset. Is that GNOME and/or Ubuntu? Terrible.
My Fedora KDE native applications do. But downloaded software still uses the floppy icon if those developers want to.
My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.
Which never happens yet everyone repeats it as if it’s a common occurrence.
I like the joke, but let’s not pretend this is something that happens.
My wife coaches high school field hockey. She told me how one day she overheard them talking about how one of them lost their work on a homework document and had to start over.
One of the girls said “you just gotta get in the habit of clicking the blue square”, which the others were confirming is the thing to do. So then my wife asks “blue square, what do you mean” and another clarified “the save button”.
They had no idea what a floppy disc was
I had to explain the save button to my 9 year old about a week ago. And then I found myself explaining what a floppy disk was. Tonight I’ll ask him if he knows what that is a picture of. I’ll be impressed if he remembers. If he fails the check, imma gonna launch into a lecture on boot disks, games, and batch files. Wish me luck!
Teach him how to manually specify his interrupts and to tune his extended RAM so he can play games.
After he masters that, get him an MFM or RLL hard drive and teach him to low level format it and set the best interleave.
Maybe, just maybe, someday it gets updated to an SD Card.
Skeuomorphism is the word your looking for, its why your digital cameras still make a mechanical click sound even through there isnt a mechanical shutter
Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven’t looked that way in 25+ years.
Path dependency
The idea of hover cars have always been so silly to me. Yes let’s waste energy on counteracting gravity instead of just using a wheel lmao
They’re good for rough terrain, so ironically a tractor is one of the less silly things to make hover
Also tyres destroy the crop they drive over
And so will the hover (unless anti-gravity).
You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.
A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter’s rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there’s going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.
You got me there it does make sense for a tractor
And designing your hover trtactor in the style of 2000 tractors is as much symbolism as the floppy disc.icon.
so shall it be
