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USB device hasn’t been “properly ejected” in years (hard-drive.net)

submitted 1 month ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] 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.