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99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

Windows dialogue about failing to eject an USB drive, because an application is using it. Aside of "OK", a new button says "Well why don't you tell them to fuck off♪~"

[–] umbraroze@piefed.social [S] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to "memorise" them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (...what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

...except you don't have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

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