supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day 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-square250fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down18
arrow-up1204arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square250fedilink
minus-squareHeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down12·9 hours ago That’s for downloading though. Right. When you grab something from somewhere else and do “what” with that thing you “downloaded?” Like what are you doing with that file? ***ing it to your hard drive of some kind… what do you call that? To **** a file you downloaded? “Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
minus-squareWhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 hours agoWhat are we doing to the file? ****Ing it?
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 hours agoI’m not downloading when I save a file I edited locally on my computer.
minus-squareBaron Von J@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoBut like, what if, you’re like … “downloading” the file … from memory … to disk? … man?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 hours agoYou take an online thing and make it local. I understand how some younger folk might not see as stark a contrast in saving v downloading. I’d say if you’re 30+, you prolly do. “Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media. Aaahhaha. I didn’t even read that bit before writing my first lines, and that only confirms my doubts. Never seen these, eh?
minus-squareEl Barto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-25 hours agoYou can curse on Lemmy. You a bot?
minus-squareFizz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoThey aren’t censoring swearwords. 5they are blanking it out to make a point about the word save.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 hours agoNeed to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.
minus-squareAlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·56 minutes agoIf Windows gets their way you don’t!
Right.
When you grab something from somewhere else and do “what” with that thing you “downloaded?”
Like what are you doing with that file? ***ing it to your hard drive of some kind… what do you call that?
To **** a file you downloaded?
“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
What are we doing to the file? ****Ing it?
I’m not downloading when I save a file I edited locally on my computer.
But like, what if, you’re like … “downloading” the file … from memory … to disk? … man?
You take an online thing and make it local.
I understand how some younger folk might not see as stark a contrast in saving v downloading.
I’d say if you’re 30+, you prolly do.
Aaahhaha. I didn’t even read that bit before writing my first lines, and that only confirms my doubts.
Never seen these, eh?
You can curse on Lemmy.
You a bot?
They aren’t censoring swearwords. 5they are blanking it out to make a point about the word save.
Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.
If Windows gets their way you don’t!