• yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    5 months ago

    I’m very happy to see the Navy running on old hardware. Do you really want the “move fast and break stuff” tech bros designing weapons!? Plus, this is the same week where businesses running Win3.1 dodged the biggest computer outage in history.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I’m far past the point where I look forward to updates on applications I use anymore. Everything just keeps getting worse these days. Old thing that works perfectly is the way to go.

    • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I think you have excessive confidence in the cyber security of old institutions.

      But also: Is this not NCD? I absolutely want tech-bros running the MIC. I want the next generation of supercarriers to be the Starship to Gerald R. Fords, SLS we are NATO, we can sacrafice a little bit of short-term military readiness in exchange for doing cool shit again.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      332·
      5 months ago

      It makes sense. Updating the hardware is logical due to magnetic medium degradation. There’s no reason to run a current OS on a closed system. Features are irrelevant. It’s all about stability and security.

      • DamageEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        If it still works, it means it’s robust, and if it manages to do its work properly then there is no reason to replace it with something unproven.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Please tell this to my employer who just “upgraded” the OS on our factory machines to windows 11.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              5 months ago

              No it isn’t. We would save over 40% of the money we currently spend on health insurance if we had a functioning healthcare system, rather than a leech based healthcare system. US citizens currently pay for everyone else’s healthcare, and the livelihoods of insurance leeches. We could spend even more on the military if we would implement a properly functioning healthcare system, but that wouldn’t make 4 people insanely rich to the point that even literal dragons would ask them why they needed to hoard that much. At least the dragons have a good reason to need all that gold.

              • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                33·
                5 months ago

                Yeah i know the issue is really corruption and uncapped cost of stuff like medicine and standard equipment, but its just fun to make fun of the US. And they definitely do spend too much money on their military.

                • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  To police the world so that your country doesn’t have to? I’m not big on this policy either, but you benefit from our spending , so your country doesn’t have to. You keep the red sea open to shipping, then.

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I can’t say for certain, but I can say that at least a few upstream O&G companies and at least one downstream O&G company was as of 4 years ago.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    291·
    5 months ago

    I don’t see the problem. The system that reads those floppies is probably very deeply integrated into the ship and does it’s job very well. At the same time, being able to give it something like a USB instead will update the actually troublesome part (floppy drives) while keeping the part that does it’s job correctly untouched.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      I do think that USB would not be a good choice, considering how frequently they’ve been implicated in malicious actions. I mean, USB as the bus would be fine, but, it should use a more esoteric connector.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, it’s all fun and games until private Doug plugs his compromised phone into the fire control computer USB port to charge it.

        They could always use a USB pinout on a proprietary connector I guess.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Yeah. I’d go with something like USB over D-Sub (both for practicality and the word play). It’s a nice sturdy connector and would be easy to service, etc due to the large pin size.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Be like Verizon with those in home cell signal devices and use the form factor of HDMI but with USB cords in it.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    when we say “emulates floppy disks” are we just talking about .img files?

    if so, that’s not nearly as impractical as the meme makes it sound. .img files are quite common for distributing software.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      I took that to mean a peripheral that basically pretends to be a floppy disk drive to whatever OS (if any) they’re running, maybe reading the data off flash memory or whatever

    • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Probably a floppy disk hardware emulator, something that essentially plugs to the original system’s floppy disk interface, has a drive for modern removable media (USB/SD card/whatever), and buttons/displays to support disk image swapping and unmount/eject.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Those emulators could well have more processing power than the device they’re connected to. Very cool tech.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Zip drive.

      But I’m getting ready for their NGD program (Next Gen Disk), and buying up all Jaz drives and disks left on eBay.

      In 50 years when they release the next RFP, I’ll be a lock.