I found Timeshift to be a disappointment. I tested it as I was setting my system up.

• Install Linux Mint, obviously.
• Install most main software I want.
• Do a Timeshift backup.
• Install more software I might want to try eventually.
• Restore the Timeshift backup.

Result: The system still thought all the extra software packages were installed, but none of them actually worked. Like, if Timeshift is gonna uninstall packages that weren’t present in the last backup, shouldn’t it also unregister those packages as well?

To fix all that crap, I had to force reinstall all packages, which takes about as long as a full OS reinstall, but I was already happy with the rest of the configuration, so I ran…

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Also, 1474560 / 1024 = 1440

If anyone could keep up with binary numbers back in the day, floppy disks were literally measured in binary megabytes.

Modified versions of various blank floppies
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These modifications reduce the number of
FAT tables from 2 to 1 and also reduce the
number of root entries down to 16 files,
which frees up some extra storage space.

The 1.72MB format can ONLY be used on Win9X
systems on real hardware, as not even WinNT
can access tracks 81 or 82 on floppy disks.
Disk image programs like WinImage can still
access files within 1.72MB floppy images.



1.44MB Standard:
80 Tracks		18 Sectors/Track
2880 Sectors Total	1474560 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 9
1457664 Bytes Data

1.44MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1470464 Bytes Data

Differences:
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12800 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



1.68MB Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1702400 Bytes Data

1.68MB Maxed:
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
-------------------------------------------
13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



DMF 1024 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 2	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 5
1714176 Bytes Data

DMF 1024 Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

2048 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



DMF 2048 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

DMF 2048 Maxed:
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
-------------------------------------------
0 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



1.72MB Standard:
82 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3444 Sectors Total	1763328 Bytes Total
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1745408 Bytes Data

1.72MB Maxed:
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1759232 Bytes Data

Differences:
-------------------------------------------
13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries

If you’re interested in the blank disk images themselves, let me know.

The floppy disk format is based on the FAT12 file system.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~johnsojr/2012-13/fall/cs370/resources/UnderstandingFAT12.pdf

And with enough creative tweaks to that file system, you can get DMF 1.68MB format, and if you think a bit outside the box and erase the redundant secondary FAT table and settle on a max of only 16 files on the disk, you can squeeze a few more kilobytes out of that even.

I actually made a number of custom modded blank disk images with more storage space, I might dig out the full specs of all the variants later.

You forgot strawberry flavored septic tank salesman, and that was in 1998, everyone knows that.

Did you know that only 23% of social media users know how to write with pencil and paper?

It’s true, I pulled that information from my ass Encyclopedia Britannica.

I’m having trouble understanding this IKEA manual. How many nuts do I have to get before I insert Tab A into Slot B?

Yes, this is the way. Make sure to shit on your couch wife once in a while. Gotta fuzz the fuzz once in a fuzz…

Look here you little empty corn cob, computers don’t need electricity, they can live on hopes and dreams.

Not exactly, not if all the fleshbags talk well defined random nonsense, then Elvis will raise from the dead and the Flying Spaghetti Monster will endorse Michael Jackson for president.

Why yes, I do toast bread in the bathtub, thanks for the recipe!

About one floppy disk, with a little free space to spare.

I was 15, and had a dream of my girlfriend standing on the side of the street in daylight, and somehow her belly button somehow turned into something like a black hole, but still flesh colored, and she got sucked into oblivion.

Hey, dreams can definitely be weird like that. 🤷‍♂️

My butt itches

This almost deserves a short video clip with a few of these roaming around in a city, just casually eating buildings and bridges and stuff, and laying concrete eggs…

LOL, I’ve heard of that before.

I’ll pass though, I took some Alka Seltzer earlier and so far so good. 👍🤞

Yay, I think the hiccups have finally passed!

I think… 🤞

Already tried that twice tonight, no dice ☹️

Sadly I don’t have any right now, but I’ve already tried Pepto Bismol and also gas relief pills, like the closest things we have around right now. No dice, still hiccups… ☹️

Honestly I feel like if I could just have one good long fart that the hiccups might pass LOL!

It’s very rare that this happens to me. I do think it’s associated with a mild chest cold I just went through over the past few days or so. The cold itself has basically already passed, but I think that’s what left me with lingering hiccups.

At least the hiccups aren’t severe, like I don’t think I’m gonna end up with a hernia or anything like that, but yeah it’s annoying as hell and making it rather difficult to sleep ☹️

I’m pretty sure it’ll pass within a day or so, hopefully 🤞