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USB device hasn’t been “properly ejected” in years (hard-drive.net)
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Police were called to a domestic dispute on Second Avenue this past weekend after neighbors complained about the volume of a verbal altercation between local man Barry Wilmore and his 1 TB Portable Seagate External Hard Drive, sources confirm.

“387 times! He hasn’t properly ejected me since our first week together. It’s like he doesn’t hear me at all,” said the pocket-sized hard drive [...]

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Eh... It's only really gonna fuck something up if you unplug it while it is actually writing something. 🤷‍♂️

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This deserves its own post somewhere.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

go ahead and make it :v

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's generally been that way for at least several years but the well of fresh satire ran dry over the weekend 😩

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

AFAIK this has been the case since flash media was introduced to Windows in like 1999, (IIRC the very first was an add-on called Plus for Windows 98SE and then it shipped with ME and 2000) and was only ever an issue if you were using ReadyBoost.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

linux still caches USB writes (which i honestly dont like, but whatever) and runs a sync when you eject it