[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com]

Yes, USB floppy drives are still available and mountable under Linux.   I was able to rescue some old MSDOS music and cross-stitch files for my 84 year-old friend.

md
> On 04/07/2025 9:25 PM EDT Jeff Lightner via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Every laptop I've bought in the last 5 years came without a CD/DVD drive.
> 
> Luckily you can buy and attach one via USB if you have a need.   
> 
> It was funny, last year I got a CT scan and they gave me a DVD to give to
> the neurologist.   I looked at the images then made a copy with my USB
> drive.   When I tried to give the original to my neurologist he didn't want
> it and instead relied upon the findings the radiologist provided him.
> 
> I'm not sure if they're still available but at my last job I had a USB
> floppy drive.   We often did acquisitions and on occasion they actually
> provided data to us on floppy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of William Bagwell via Ale
> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 8:47 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Cc: William Bagwell <william at alt-config.net>
> Subject: Re: [ale] A modest proposal for the times
> 
> On Monday, April 07, 2025 01:25:55 PM jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale wrote:
> > I bought a fairly high-end Lenovo (not that model).   The main time the
> > fans come on is when I am updating the kernel.   Otherwise it is
> > completely silent.
> > 
> > Unfortunately with the new tariffs that 2K laptop will probably be over
> 3K.
> 
> Same with the wife's budget PowerSpec, very quite and never notice it. Not a
> gamer, but it was so much better and cheaper than anything aimed at office
> users. Apparently the home user desktop is dead... And when did they drop
> optical drives?
> 
> BTW your long post below was an interesting read!
> --
> William
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