supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square264fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down18
arrow-up1221arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square264fedilink
minus-squareJordanZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down3·1 day agoMy vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10·21 hours ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that’s what I have always read it as.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-219 hours agoHow is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours agoYou’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoThat’s already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I’d expect it to bring up the connection configuration
minus-squareTeddE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoWhat if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoI would assume that would mean either choosing between database profiles or uploading a database export
minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoWhat’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
minus-square𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoIt’s an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer
My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that’s what I have always read it as.
It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
How is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
You’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.
That’s already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I’d expect it to bring up the connection configuration
What if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
I would assume that would mean either choosing between database profiles or uploading a database export
What’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
It’s an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer
But why don’t you just use iCloud?