Okay so hear me out.
The only solution here is Peter
Need to head out ? Oh ok lemme peter this document real quick.
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A cloud. Just to let them know they don’t own anything anymore.
C90 cassette.
In Canada, a goalie's hockey stick.
What? Not a Maple Syrup Spile?
Symbol of "the cross" with hover-over text in which Microsoft writes "pray I don't amend it further."
For that future timeline when the meaning of Save becomes "stop working, let Copilot perfect it, and close"
I thought it was going to be the cross because Jesus saves
A Jesus icon.
Jesus saves.
What about Valhala tho? Kinda seems like superior religious imagery to me.
i want software to be easy to use. I don't want to die in battle using my software
SD card. Half is old timers won’t even realize it’s not a floppy disk.
I would also accept any other recognizable, removable media. Even a generic USB stick would be more relevant than a floppy disk.
Yet 90% of young people won't know what it is because digital cameras have been replaced by phones and phones no longer have microSD lol
Digital cameras are in style again. I've seen screenless ones for sale at several places these past few weeks.
Gotta give the next gen something to complain about.
In the dystopia of outer-worlds-esque orwellien-surveillance corporate feudalism it looks like they will have to endure, I think we can afford to lighten up on them 😂
I've seen HDD icons as a replacement for the floppy.
HDD or a folder is open, floppy is save, surely?
In calibre, HDD icon is for "save to disk", but I'm sure I've seen icon sets or other apps where HDD was used to save.
I think we should just keep the floppy disk symbol at this point, because it doesn't matter what it was originally based on or whether that exists any more--everyone knows what that symbol means, and it can't really be confused with anything else.
There's no point making an icon that looks like any other particular kind of storage device since those are changing all the time. So we either have to pick some real world thing like a safe or warehouse or grain silo or whatever. or invent some completely new symbol that's not related to anything and then everyone would have to learn it. Which takes us back to just keeping the floppy disk symbol.
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I reject the question. That's not a picture of a floppy disc, that is the glyph that means save
You literally called it the save symbol. And that's what it is...100 years from now, if we're still around and still have computers, the save icon will still be some stylized glyph based on the floppy disc
The existence of the floppy disc is already just a bit of trivia about the save icon
It's like asking what we should change the Bluetooth symbol to? Why do you yearn for the world to burn?
An icon can be any random glyph, but it has to stay recognizable and consistent in meaning, that's the entire concept here
What till people find out what "dashboard" originally meant.
By OP's logic, this
#A
is a drawing of an ox head.
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the final fantasy 7 save crystal. because just look at it. LOOK AT IT!
It's so goofy looking lol
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