cyborganism,

Living the casette futurism dream.

Shmandom,

If it ain’t broken…

tiredofsametab,

Live in Japan. Plenty of things are quite broken :/

Floshie,

And their website design…

tiredofsametab,

A/B testing clean, minimalist, modern designs common in the West against modern Japanese designs always shows better results for the Japanese designs amongst Japanese consumers. I don't think they're going to cater to the 2.5% of foreign residents and others that might use Japanese sites (though I often wish they would)

EmperorHenry,
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Cash is better than digital currency. And gold, silver and copper coins are better than any other currency.

NaoPb,

I like cash and fax machines. But floppy disks need to be retired. And paper filing is incredibly slow compared to digital databases.

Delphia,

Paper filing is good, digital filing with proper backups is good.

At my job for a staff evaluation I have to fill out a paper checklist, scan it, then enter the information digitally, then print the digital one and file it in the employees file with the original checklist and then upload a pdf of the paper checklist AND the digital one…

Instead of just having the evaluation portal open on a tablet and doing it ONE TIME with a good backup system.

NaoPb, (edited )

Yes, I agree it’s good to have a backup system.

[edit] I mean having a paper filing system as backup.

Delphia,

I could just print out the digital version and archive that or submit the digital and file the paper checklist.

I dont need a digital copy of the paper and a paper copy of the digital at the same time. Especially when they get filed/archived together.

NaoPb,

Fair point.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Floppy disks??

Isthisreddit,

Nuclear arsenals use floppies, and for good reason.

Personally I use spinning hard drives as floppies, but same idea (offline storage, usually off-site as well if I have time)

Blue_Morpho,

I’d think Blu-ray m-disc would be a bit safer than a floppy that could have a bit flip from being too close to an iPhone (magsafe).

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

I’m gonna need an explanation as to floppies and hard drives being so similar. I can easily buy a brand new hard drive. Floppy disks and drives, not so much…

siipale,

Both are spinning magnetic disks. I guess they meant the reliability aspect of the storage medium.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

I honestly had several catastrophic failures of floppy disks that made me stop trusting them. imo floppy disks are the least reliable way to store data by far

siipale,

I don’t know how reliable SSD is compared to magnetic but I guess they do fail too. Good thing about SSD is that it doesn’t have moving parts so at least one fewer points of failure.

TrickDacy,
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Depends on how much writing you are doing. I think that if you’re doing tons of writes all the time, HDD might edge out SSD, but it all depends on a lot.

Floppies were an entirely different beast. Instead of a disk failing every few years, a floppy disk that hadn’t been used in a few months, in my experience, was about 50/50 if it was bad or corrupted in some way.

somegeek,

I would say this is not bad at all. Nothing wrong with the things that portrayed as bad. Specially using cash

bjornsno,

I don’t know how old you are but in case you weren’t there: floppy disks were actively out to destroy your data and are in fact bad for society.

beerclue,

All of those apply to Germany as well. Except floppies …

MrJameGumb,
@MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

People still use fax machines? I wouldn’t even know where to look for a fax machine these days! Is Kinkos still a thing? I think that’s where I had to go the last time I faxed something 20 years ago lol

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Healthcare in the US still relies on a surprising amount of faxing.

can,

Prescriptions need to be faxed where I’m from.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Hello, fax machine? This is Germany!

QuinceDaPence,

Most copiers can have a fax card added. And most businesses that need a fax machine don't even do that. They have their VoIP phone service set up a virtual fax machine. If it even needs a physical part it's probably a little black box in a network closet, but now most don't even do that.

Real fun thing, did you know faxed advertisements were and are still a thing? At work we get like 3 random ads each day that come out of the machine.

Cracks_InTheWalls, (edited )
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works avatar

When I have to check the efax and see these, I almost always save the clipart for use in inter-office memes before deleting them.

I’m pretty sure that’s the most engagement these things have got in the past 20 years.

MedicPigBabySaver,

You can actual use the Internet to send a fax to a standard fax machine. There are websites for that.

psud,

The Australian government used faxes well into the 2000s, I think the last three faxes I sent though were through my modem

thehatfox,
@thehatfox@lemmy.world avatar

The UK National Health Service (NHS) still loves fax machines. There was supposed to be a plan to phase them all out by 2020 but it never happened.

They are still somewhat common in some B2B sectors here too, although most businesses have migrated to e-fax systems now.

PeleSpirit,

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  • TWeaK,

    And yet they never picked up SMS messages, they just used email on their phones all the while.

    tiredofsametab,

    Old SMS had some pretty crappy character limits so they went with the option that didn't is basically how I see it. Now, LINE is king. I've only used text with like two people ever in Japan.

    TWeaK,

    Old SMS was free though, it used the spare bits in a regular phone call datastream. Meanwhile, the network provider charged you 10p a pop, and far more for any kind of data.

    tiredofsametab,

    I don't know what the prices here in Japan were without looking it up. I'll try to remember to ask my wife when she gets home.

    LokyinN,
    @LokyinN@lemmy.world avatar

    japan being the most cyberpunk nation besides communist China and South Korea

    fosforus, (edited )

    Plus the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world by far.

    edit Oh wait, Venezuela topped them. Well done, socialism!

    dangblingus, (edited )

    Venezuela hasn’t been socialist for a while. I don’t see their workers owning the means of production.

    Wisest_wizard,

    Well… debt/GDP ratio and its effects depends on how well are you able to service the debt and how much is the confidence on GSecs… P.S. Japan is considered one of the safest when it comes to GSecs

    DreBeast,

    Venezuela and Japan have the highest, but you forgot to mention the United States is 12th -“While the U.S. boasts the highest GDP in the world, it nonetheless spends more than it earns. Major contributors to the national debt include the world’s largest military budget, tax cuts (which reduce government income and rarely result in a corresponding increase in economic growth), COVID-19 relief efforts, and mandatory-but-underfunded programs such as Medicare.”

    Brunei and Afghanistan have the lowest. You need a better metric to make your pro neo liberal take💀

    Source - worldpopulationreview.com/…/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-…

    Gork,

    They have those cool blue plastic trays with rubber mats that you put your money in though. And they’re everywhere.

    Dizzirron,

    Filet mignon from a vending machine is for everyone in Japan.

    intensely_human,

    Hot coffee in a can!

    intensely_human,

    Features all around

    kameecoding,

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  • PieMePlenty,

    That’s the"cash society"one.

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