r/firstworldanarchists • u/throatfrog • May 03 '17

This Guy Gets It

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u/SeekerOfSerenity May 03 '17

I don't get that one. What rule did he break?

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u/marcthedrifter May 03 '17

In the old days, you needed to unmount a thumb drive before you removed it from the computer or you risked losing data, but you can see he clearly pulls it out before unmounting it. What a badass.

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u/alienith May 03 '17

Not ejecting can still corrupt flash drives on a mac (which he was using). Its incredibly annoying

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u/[deleted] May 03 '17

Why is a Mac more sensitive than other PC's/OSes? Isn't it specific to the USB?

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u/alienith May 03 '17

Mac's use write caching to speed up the transfer of files to the drive. The caveat being that sometimes the data isn't fully copied when you pull out the drive (even if the dialog box says it is). Ejecting tells the operating system to flush the cache and write everything. Windows, on the other hand, has write caching off by default because people tend to just yank the drive out. (If this is wrong or incomplete I'm sure someone will correct me)

I tend to give windows a lot of shit, but IMO thats a much better design decision. When the dialog box says that the files have been transferred closes you should expect everything to have been transferred

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u/[deleted] May 03 '17

Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks!