is that on /dev/sda ?

"D" was actually used for "Drink Holder"

I was convinced I had seen the spelling 'disk' before, so I looked it up and found this (new to me) and interesting distinction on wiktionary.

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise. Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette); similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

But also both forms seem to be usable for geometric disc shapes.

I need a historical fantasy book in this concept.

My coworker is going on vacation next week. I don't want his tickets man

Nah, fuck that. No one is willing to pay enough for me to care while on my vacation .

We won't talk about what ray the A: drive is.

I use B: for my BluRay drive. Seemed appropriate.

I got you, OP…

C:\DOS

C:\DOS\RUN

RUN\DOS\RUN

lol I never saw one. Just heard the legends.

That’s when computing was fun and interesting.

IBM PS/2 Model 50 for me. Loudest keyboard on earth.

Anyone: "In the beginning..."

My Freakin' Brain: "Inne de beninng-ing."

"Fine but you owe me a tea"

I just need to pause and reflect on the level of commitment in that post. They started out strong, and just kept on going.

Absolutely outstanding.

*disc

It was called "D" for "disk", duh.

(The above comment for legal purposes is a joke.)

Well, bugs happen. I'm not as glad about them being dead, they had a ton of great titles, two of my favourite series being NOLF and Empire Earth

Us Linux heathens never had any of the letter gods, we just worship the one and only, the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, the one true god:

/

I remember seeing a program that used something else once, and when I worked in web apps and websites, there was always a debate about what to use.

A common one is a folder icon (or a tray) with a download arrow... DESPITE it being used to save locally. Same thing with a cloud with a down arrow.

Some other programs used to use the icon for a hard disk, the three circular platters.

If I remember the app, Ill give better examples of programs that use other things.

And the CD-ROM drive was D:

How it is dumb? There's no reason for anyone who wasn't alive then to know about A and B drives.

I was explaining to my kids about floppy disks, and mentioned the save icon. The what? The button you press to save. It just says "save" they said.

I think they use the Google suite at school, and apparently the save button just says "save". Although TBH I half expected them to not know of it because of auto-saving.

I haven't seen that, any examples?

I don't why they'd change that either, just because they don't know the origin, they still grew up knowing it meant "save."

Back in the XP era, I set a hard drive to B and random installers would refuse to target it because they insisted it was too small. Good times.

I've thought about it, please detest me it gives me life