[_trampeltier]

Floppy disks seems common in the us. Just since 2019, they don't use 8" floppys for the nuclear rockets.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931800/usa-nuclear-8-i...

[rootusrootus]

Hardly specific to the US. Lots of stodgy old institutions across the world still run on elderly hardware. If it works, it works.