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[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 32 points 3 weeks ago

These aren't printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn't been in business for a decade type of thing.

Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.

Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I reserve the right to use my copy of "Mario is Missing!" from 1993.

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