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1. Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 11:03:31 JST Tim 🎮

   I needed a FAT-formatted flash drive to scan stuff to and this was the closest option to hand. That's normal, right?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 11:03:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @timixretroplays yeah. Totally normal in my experience

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 11:08:08 JST Tim 🎮

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone phew, thanks

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 17:25:22 JST Tim 🎮

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     • vxo

     @vxo "fashionable though it may be, please do not wear the backup media outside of the office"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 17:25:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • vxo

     @timixretroplays @vxo you can't stop me wearing floppy disks!

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 17:25:23 JST vxo

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     @timixretroplays I was looking all over the place for the dumb thing and absolutely dreading having to fight with it instead of being able to just restore a known good state when I decided it was absolutely time for a break from all that.

     I left and went to Denny's. The restroom mirror there answered all:

     I had clipped the Jumpdrive to my collar and immediately forgotten about it.

     There's something to be said about proper backup practices here, and whatever it is, it is very silly.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 17:25:24 JST vxo

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     @timixretroplays this reminds me of a goofy thing I did once when somewhat deliriously exhausted and trying to revive an FM broadcast exciter. The old Harris Flexstar had a front panel USB port for saving the config and maybe also loading firmware - I forget. Anyway it only reliably worked with the original purple Lexar Jumpdrive, of which we had one or maybe two. I had a lobster claw clasp attached to it so I could hang it from the rack handles but suddenly it vanished!