this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
747 points (99.5% liked)

Programmer Humor

25843 readers
3191 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
747
Feel old yet? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

I always somehow thought the distinction of "burning" a USB thumb drive was adding an MBR or setting something that ordinary file writes don't do.