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Maybe this opinion makes me sound like a bit of a cynical asshole but I sincerely feel like there is a lot of written fiction out there (novels, short stories, fanfics, what have you) that does not exist as written fiction because the author had any particular love, appreciation, or interest for the medium but because writing is the medium that offers the least barriers of entry for a lone artist with no budget.

Like idk this isn't inherently bad but sometimes you can tell when someone *really* wanted this to be a movie or an animated show or w/e and decided to "settle" for the written word instead.

looknorf

foone

That's a good case. I've got one of those in my office

sixstringeddestruction

What drive letter does the 3rd floppy drive get?

foone

I can give you four answers to this question. The short answer, the long answer, the historical answer, the actual answer, and the mythbusters recreate-the-myth answer.

short answer:

probably C:, if not D:, but could be anything up to Z:

long answer:

It depends entirely on which version of DOS this machine uses.

Originally DOS assigned all floppy drives first, then hard drives, then network drives. So a system with three floppy drives and one hard drive would get floppy drives A:, B:, C:, hard drive D:

DOS 5.0 (from 1991) changed it, and it now does the first two floppy drives, then the primary partition of hard drives, then all the extra partitions of hard drives, THEN floppy drives from 3 and up.

So a single hard drive machine (assuming it's not partitioned into multiple drives) with three floppy drives, will have floppy drives A:, B:, and D:, with hard drive C:.

historical answer:

It originally worked this way because DOS copied how CP/M did it, and CP/M just assigned the letters A-Z to all drives, without treating hard drives specially (especially because you probably didn't have a hard drive back then)

actual answer:

The floppy drive is A:. This machine only has one floppy drive.

This case has blanking plates for the 3.5" floppy drive bays that look like fake 3.5" floppy drives. I don't know why it does this, it's very weird and confusing, and in this picture they've installed neither of the possible 3.5" floppy drives, so both of those are fake, and only the 5.25" drive is real.

mythbusters recreate-the-myth answer:

I went into 86box and set up an IBM XT with three floppy drives, and installed DOS 3.3 and then DOS 5.0 on it:

Here in DOS 3.3, you can see that our floppy drives got numbered A:, B:, and C:, and the hard drive is D:

But when that same hardware is upgraded to DOS 5.00, the hard drive is C:, and the floppies are A:, B:, and D:

lazarus-lazuli

i have no comment this is just the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen all day

sorcererslittledragon

@thatlittleegyptologist i think this is your wheelhouse? Whats it say. Is it anygood or is it pure aesthetic.

thatlittleegyptologist

I’ve already posted something longer on my blog because I was trying to avoid spoiling the fun but (as loud as I can - not reflected on you): THIS IS AI. IT’S NOT HIERATIC (that looks different) IT’S BARELY EVEN CURSIVE HIEROGLYPHS.

Look closely:

Do they really look like hieroglyphs? No.

Do they really form things other than birds? No.

Do they distinct groups that could be words even if you can’t read them? No.

When you spot the same sign on another part of the door, why does it look like the person carving them (because Reddit OP says an exacto knife was used) suddenly forgot a script they are apparently fluent enough in to carve on a toilet door? Because it is AI.

TL;DR: Reddit op was karma farming using AI to generate nonsense “hieratic” onto what is probably a real photo of a toilet door. Because Hieroglyphs in the public consciousness are considered a funny ha ha picture script rather than a real script belonging to a real language capable of literature, people’s brains skip over the obvious faults. If you searched for “hieratic examples” or “cursive hieroglyphs examples” and compared them to the above image, it’d be very quickly apparent that it wasn’t real.

the-haiku-bot

Do they distinct groups

that could be words even if

you can’t read them? No.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

ecrivainsolitaire

And here I was thinking that the clue for AI was that it would take weeks to manually etch this on a bathroom door. Come on guys, there's AI slop but there's also just not understanding the world around it. I bet if you spent less time transvestigating random Reddit posts and more touching grass you wouldn't be so easily tricked by generated images because you'd understand what the real world looks like.

segamascott

awesome

whosurisold

billions and billions of WASTED taxpayers money

posttexasstressdisorder

Not to mention all the dead and maimed-for-life service personel.

segamascott

two prime examples of why people hate americans 👍

ecrivainsolitaire

Never forget the reason republicans started turning on Trump wasn't because of the fascism, or the kidnapping of innocents on the street, or the two pointless wars, or the repeated attempts to launch WWIII, or the rapes, or the child trafficking, or the destruction of the environment, or the data centres, or the fires, or the pardoning of domestic terrorists, or the recession, or COVID, or literally shouting at the world that he's literally the antichrist.

It was that gas prices got too high.

Scorch the land and start over.

segamascott

awesome

whosurisold

billions and billions of WASTED taxpayers money

posttexasstressdisorder

Not to mention all the dead and maimed-for-life service personel.

segamascott

two prime examples of why people hate americans 👍

onthegreatsea

lots of people do not seem to be aware that you can use third party websites to download stuff from spotify! no spending ages searching for torrents, just copy the url and pirate it that way

i use spotidownloader but there are lots of sites that do the same thing if u have problems with that one

onthegreatsea

this is how i've been fixing and replacing all the broken/corrupted music from my 2010 HDD btw. has made it sooooo easy

ecrivainsolitaire

That's when you upload the torrent and pass it on to the universe

botanyshitposts

a really funny thing about working with seeds in a day to day capacity is that you really need the seeds to stay in one place at any given moment, and the seeds disagree. so it’s just like, seeds end up on the floor. seeds end up on the desk. seeds appear in the crack between the glass plate of the microscope stage and its surrounding metal casing. seeds are around the dumpster outside. sweeping up seeds, patching up bags of seeds, picking seeds off your clothes and from between keyboard keys, very carefully transferring seeds into containers less likely to cause catastrophe should the seeds breach containment, like it’s just an uphill battle built into the work. almost as if the seeds are hyperevolved to disperse themselves or something

lumsel

I think the types of oppression that are the most intense are the ones that apply to me personally. For some reason they're just so much more visceral and personally affecting than the ones that don't affect me, which all seem distant and abstract and not as big a deal. If you don't restructure your worldview around this I will decide you're part of the problem.

perception-filter

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

pierppasolini

The Simpsons - 15.18 - Catch 'em if You Can

notahorseindisguise

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

You youngsters don't understand how true this is. I used to have crushes on girls based on the fact that I've seen them wearing Adidas Gazelle or Converse All-star

sabertoothwalrus

ok deleted the last post because I likely misinterpreted it and that actually delights me because this sentence is linguistically fascinating

You can read it as:

“Jelly” is called “Jell-O” by the Brits (a comedically false statement, which also implies Americans don’t know what Jell-O is)

“Jelly” is the term Brits use for what American typically call “Jell-O” (true statement, likely the intended meaning yet I personally find the original sentence a BAFFLING way to phrase that)

what you interpret the object/subject/action as informs the active vs passive voice of the original statement. In other words, this is The Dress of sentences

sabertoothwalrus

another way of writing it that might make the confusion clearer

American friends: [a message to Americans from the UK:] “Jelly” [the word in the original post] is what the Brits [us] call [refer to as] Jell-O!

American friends: [I am American helping fellow Americans:] “Jelly” [the presumably unfamiliar word in the original post] is what the Brits [those other guys] call Jell-O! [our American thing]

the-haiku-bot

another way of

writing it that might make the

confusion clearer

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.