Oh, sheesh

[conuly]

The original 8in (20cm) and 5.25in (13cm) floppy disks were actually floppy – you could bend them slightly without harming the magnetic material inside.

"The magnetic material inside" is the disk. It's round, it's floppy - what more do you want? The etymology is pretty damn transparent! All that square stuff on the outside is just the casing, because manipulating the disk itself would be silly and difficult and... honestly, I'm not sure how you could do that.

Now I'm questioning whether or not this person understands where the word "disk" comes from in the first place.

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[conuly]

But how did you use the disk itself without the covering!?

[kengr]

You stick your thumb in the center hole, and very lightly press a finger against the outer edge of the disk, The you carefully slide it into the slot. Once it's fairly in, you can just press on the edge.

Getting it out is a bit trickier, you have to pinch a bit of the outer edge to pull it out, but there's enough unused space that far out on the disk that it's unlikely to mess anything up.