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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system

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Prisoner laments reliance on floppy disks for appeals documents, limiting file sizes to 1.44 MB — prisoners allowed 20 floppy disks in cell, but USB flash sticks are banned in New Jersey system

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago
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Each prisoner is allowed 20 floppy disks, but flash drives are verboten.
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    16 days ago

    You can boot it from one.

    https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

    Hasnt been updated in 4 years though

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