Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
I'm deeply disappointed that I didn't get the job at Framework. If ever there was going to be a modern laptop maker that was going to let me design a Floppy Disk Module to slot in, it was them.
Aug 15, 2024 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2024

Maybe I should put a warning on my resume.

No matter what you do, I will find a way to make it:
1. Use floppy disks
2. Run Doom
3. Be or have a novelty keyboard

Show threadIanAug 15, 2024
@foone Your resume should type itself from a novelty keyboard.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2024
@soviut oh that's a fun idea.
Show threadBiggles 20X6!Aug 15, 2024
@foone a USB/Bluetooth keyboard with the keys as screens running doom with a floppy slot to add wad files
Show threadMartin, Regulus TithoniumAug 15, 2024
@foone how about a keyboard that runs doom, only has the keys needed for playing doom, and the keys are floppy drives that are pressed by inserting and ejecting disks?
Show thread[object Object]Aug 15, 2024
@foone if you ever design an fpga-based keyboard form factor computer, I’m in, no questions asked
Show threadRonnieAug 15, 2024
@foone
Novelty keyboard? I'm in
Show threadLuukAug 15, 2024
@foone I wouldn’t lie and say I’d buy one, but I would like the option to buy a laptop with an 8” floppy drive and a perfectly size-matched screen.
Show threadLudovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:Aug 16, 2024
@Novyx @foone where would you source the floppies from?
Show threadJohn CortexiphanAug 15, 2024
@foone digital pee stick test as a hid device…
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2024
@yakmoose I never actually made it a HID device! it's on my todo, though
Show threaddanny rjAug 16, 2024
@foone por que no los tres?
Show threadhattifattenerAug 16, 2024
@foone You're just the man we need here at Amalgamated Pacemakers!
Show threadFanua 🌐Aug 16, 2024
@foone Laughing. Used to play Doom from a floppy.
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 22, 2024
@foone Patrick Star Voice: "Is using an #UltraNav-Style #TrackPoint a novelty Keyboard?"
Show threaddylan Aug 15, 2024
@foone I’m imaging a fold out design similar to their ethernet port
Show threadVissAug 15, 2024
@foone if you produced a demo of having a floppy disk drive soldered directly onto the motheboard, i bet apple would go for it
Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦Aug 15, 2024
@Viss @foone I'm still entertained by my terrible idea of a contactless floppy reader that uses a degauss discharge to (destructively) simultaneously read every bit. I mean, it makes no sense, but it would be fun to write it into a story.
Show threadVissAug 16, 2024

@kboyd @foone oh this sounds juicy and delicious, im totally in :D

gimme a one-shot-read, mission impossible style 'oh fuck it just caught fire' diskette :D

Show threadJan SchieferAug 16, 2024
@Viss @foone yeah, but they'd glue in the disk.
Show threadRaven667Aug 15, 2024
@foone I sympathize, that sounds like it would have been cool. You're still awesome even if they didn't think your skills were the right fit right now. Best of luck 🤞🏽🍀🤞🏽💪❤️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Show threadalex Aug 15, 2024
@foone @m04 you know what you need to do now
Show threadWooShellAug 16, 2024
@foone Floppies are too mainstream.. perhaps they'd be more interested in a punch card reader?
Show threadPhil M0OFXAug 16, 2024
@foone Dang. A Framework with a Greaseweazle plug-in module would be SWEET. A literal go-anywhere one-box disk imager.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Aug 16, 2024
@philpem I know, right? Framework! If you won't hire me, at least send me a free laptop to design this on!
Show threadTobiasAug 16, 2024
@foone https://mntre.com/ ?
MNT Research GmbH

Show threadJonathan ‘theJPster’ PallantAug 16, 2024
@foone have you ever run Doom on a Gotek? You've got some buttons, and a small OLED screen ...
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Aug 16, 2024
@thejpster nope. Good idea, though
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 22, 2024
@foone @thejpster it does have enoigh "Oompfh!" to do so AFAICT...
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 22, 2024

@foone similar feels for me...

https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

GitHub - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy: A new storage media format using modern interfaces.

A new storage media format using modern interfaces. - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

GitHub