Minor things that bother you

[wanderer2575]

An ad for an AI product that I see says to use it to find key points in contracts.
"Summarize real quick." Don't you think that software that purports to analyze contracts should use correct grammar? ("really quickly")

And make less errors! 

[Scott5114]

When people ask questions dependent on shipping costs without specifying the destination. "Can I get this for $X with shipping included?" I don't know, where do you live? The origin is downstate Illinois, so the answer is going to be: Chicago, sure; California, maybe; Slovakia, hell no.

[LilianaUwU]

AI in general is a major thing that bothers me. But that's for another iteration of that thread.

Why the fuck can't I, as the owner of a Discord server, time out my mods?

[D-Dey65]

Once again, My PC has been depriving me of the right to safely remove one of my external hard drives. I stayed up past 2 in the morning to try to do it last night, and then I just left it there and went to bed. It's still there as I'm writing this.

I tend to just unplug it anyway to show the computer which one of us is the boss.

No idea if this is how it works on Windows, because Windows likes to be as obtuse as possible in interactions with the user, but on Linux a "cannot disconnect drive" error only happens because some program has a file on that drive open. Usually it will even tell you which program it is. In the event that it can't, I tend to take that as a sign that a program is erroneously reporting it has a file open (probably because it didn't close properly) and just go ahead and yank the drive.

Windows is really bad about handling open files.  If one program has a file open, another can't.  If the program forgets to release the file, too bad.  Outlook is particularly horrible at this - if I need to download an attachment to a USB drive (or attach something that's on a USB drive) in Windows, that drive can't be safely ejected until Outlook is closed.

The thing is, none of the files from the external hard drive were open. And if there were, I had nothing to indicate which ones were supposed to be open.

[freebrickproductions]

Once again, My PC has been depriving me of the right to safely remove one of my external hard drives. I stayed up past 2 in the morning to try to do it last night, and then I just left it there and went to bed. It's still there as I'm writing this.

I tend to just unplug it anyway to show the computer which one of us is the boss.

No idea if this is how it works on Windows, because Windows likes to be as obtuse as possible in interactions with the user, but on Linux a "cannot disconnect drive" error only happens because some program has a file on that drive open. Usually it will even tell you which program it is. In the event that it can't, I tend to take that as a sign that a program is erroneously reporting it has a file open (probably because it didn't close properly) and just go ahead and yank the drive.

Windows is really bad about handling open files.  If one program has a file open, another can't.  If the program forgets to release the file, too bad.  Outlook is particularly horrible at this - if I need to download an attachment to a USB drive (or attach something that's on a USB drive) in Windows, that drive can't be safely ejected until Outlook is closed.

The thing is, none of the files from the external hard drive were open. And if there were, I had nothing to indicate which ones were supposed to be open.

Is it a true hard drive or is it a solid state drive? If the former, I've noticed Windows doesn't like to allow you to "safely remove" them, regardless of if anything is open on them or not. I suspect it might just simply be the nature of the hardware.

[vdeane]

Doesn't Windows like to use flash storage as additional RAM or something?

[D-Dey65]

Is it a true hard drive or is it a solid state drive? If the former, I've noticed Windows doesn't like to allow you to "safely remove" them, regardless of if anything is open on them or not. I suspect it might just simply be the nature of the hardware.

Are we talking about the external hard drive? Because it's not the solid state drive. I haven't seen any solid state drives that are 4 terabytes or more. Besides most times it'll let me remove it, but sometimes the PC decides it doesn't want to let go no matter what's happening.

[kalvado]

Once again, My PC has been depriving me of the right to safely remove one of my external hard drives. I stayed up past 2 in the morning to try to do it last night, and then I just left it there and went to bed. It's still there as I'm writing this.

I tend to just unplug it anyway to show the computer which one of us is the boss.

No idea if this is how it works on Windows, because Windows likes to be as obtuse as possible in interactions with the user, but on Linux a "cannot disconnect drive" error only happens because some program has a file on that drive open. Usually it will even tell you which program it is. In the event that it can't, I tend to take that as a sign that a program is erroneously reporting it has a file open (probably because it didn't close properly) and just go ahead and yank the drive.

Windows is really bad about handling open files.  If one program has a file open, another can't.  If the program forgets to release the file, too bad.  Outlook is particularly horrible at this - if I need to download an attachment to a USB drive (or attach something that's on a USB drive) in Windows, that drive can't be safely ejected until Outlook is closed.

The thing is, none of the files from the external hard drive were open. And if there were, I had nothing to indicate which ones were supposed to be open.

Is it a true hard drive or is it a solid state drive? If the former, I've noticed Windows doesn't like to allow you to "safely remove" them, regardless of if anything is open on them or not. I suspect it might just simply be the nature of the hardware.

1. There is a concept of "current directory for the program. Windows may hold the disk if there is a program looking at that folder. In the Outlook case, saving something to the main disk would release the hold
2. There are 2 modes how drives are mounted in Windows. Optimized for removal, aka caches are flushed ASAP, and optimized for performance, write back cache can persist and prevent eject.