TIL: theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300734/…

bizarrely, if you still do the 'safely remove' thing, Win10 immediately gives a small popup saying 'unsafely removed' (even though I just told it to release its file locks), then in the messages tab a few secs later says "it's now safe to remove" etc etc... And now it turns out I can ignore all of them :rolleyes:

lol

Its like close buttons on some elevators?

?

Some elevators have close buttons that do nothing

ah heh

not encountered those here yet

they are completely absent sometimes though

as far as you know

they're lying to you man

Some crossings have fake buttons too

if I press a button and the doors close, there is kind of a direct relation of the button to the door mechanism

I mean, theoretically a guy could be watching the elevator camera like a hawk, and close the doors the microsecond I press the fake button :P

Or it was gonna close anyway

on a timer

@JourneymanGeek yeah, that must be country specific :rolleyes:

edition.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/index.html

THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH LIES

@JourneymanGeek my dad actually ran the city department that installed and maintained public lighting and traffic lights, definitely not here :)

@MiG Maybe he's part of the conspiracy

They don't want you to know.

@JourneymanGeek I don't have a fixed time that I press the button, if there are variations it's highly unlikely I hit the fake button the same time the timer hits zero, every single time

Control is an illusion that society is built on!

sorry, I'm allergic to conspiracy theories

@MiG they clearly have you believing that

@JourneymanGeek I mean, there is some truth to that but not from the angle that conspiracy theorists like to push

@MiG damn, I was hoping to get another victim of my theory of how the british empire never existed

I like to extrapolate from the saying "a leader without followers is just a guy shouting in the woods"... 'power' is projected both ways - if the people with guns stop supporting the dictator, he kinda gets toppled

@MiG I tend to think systems get a life of their own

well, us humans like to simplify things so we can comprehend them, but the devil is frequently in the details, and then things happen that people didn't expect

@MiG Then you should watch the show "Inside Job"

"For employees of the Deep State, conspiracies aren't just theories, they're fact. And keeping them a secret is a full-time job." :D

it's gonna have to get in line though, watching the real-life documentaries called 'the witcher' and 'the book of boba fett' first :P

"The series follows a team led by a tech genius and her new partner, as they work in the organization alongside reptilian shapeshifters, a human-dolphin hybrid, and a sapient mushroom from hollow Earth." - this does sound hilarious though :D

@MiG a monthly raid check here runs to part of a day... if I had the money I'd probably do an offline raid5 archive

still don't trust a single disk not to turn bad, even if it's sitting in a nice cool dark drawer somewhere

I'd love to do the 'only power it up when needed' approach

but some fool of a took (me) decided that it would bethe be all and end all

The One Disk Storage Area To Rule Them All

so it's got media, backups, VM storage, containers, all sortsa nonsense on there

and more to the point the disks are spread over two desktop PSUs via the ol' "paperclip jumper"

and powering them up needs someone physically there to flick one switch just a little bit before the other

(I am the person sysadmins tell horrible stories about around a campfire)