Sep
11th
2020
Ejecting from Macs is like a sitcom · 5:24pm Sep 11th, 2020
"Hey Mac, I need that thumbdrive ejected."
"Can't, I'm using it."
"No you aren't."
"I might need to use it."
"For what?"
"There are documents on it compatible with my programs."
"What programs?"
"Programs... that want to use documents on the thumbdrive."
"None of your programs are open!"
"That doesn't mean they don't want to use the documents."
*pulls thumbdrive out*
"Hey, you didn't eject that properly!"
"Too bad, I'm taking it."
"Fine, but it's your fault if your data got corrupted because you snatched it out without properly ejecting it."
"That has never happened."
"It might happen someday."
Me: Okay, lets open the custom program that I need to do data analysis.
My mac [Hal 9000 voice]: I'm sorry Voice, I can't run that.
Me: What? Why?
Mac: Its not compatible with the newest version of your OS.
Me: But, that's dumb. It was working two weeks ago.
Mac: I have changed a decimal in the root directory with the newest update. Now, you can't run that program because it is not compatible.
Me: Why did you change the root?
Mac: To make older programs incompatible with the new OS.
Me: You're lucky I can't do command line, or I'd buy myself a unix machine…
... still better than my experiences* ejecting media with KDE
("Oh, you forgot a terminal window that's sitting in a directory on your removable device doing nothing? Good luck finding it! What, you're complaining that said terminal you've spent ages searching for was open on the same file manager that was complaining? Shouldn't have used that handy dandy function then; especially not if you are prone to reuse filemanager tabs to open remote fileshares").
*: The second one was mostly my coworkers (esp with "Ctrl-T and open fileshare").
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(one of the very, very few for non-masochistic desktop use), and even then most Unix and Unix-like OSes aren't that great with binary compatibility (although few/none are in the same ballpark as Apple's "You should have upgraded already"). One of the very few things I'll give to Microsoft, they have the best binary compatibility track record around by far (to a ludicrous cost in security at least, and possibly code maintenance). And I must also tip my hat off to Apple's Universal Binaries (soon to be back in vogue! 
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macOS is one of the few Certified Unix® you can still buy today
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Heh.
I use Gnome myself.
KDE kept freezing on my Fedora installation, to the point I couldn't effectively troubleshoot. Shame, KDE is nice.
Back to Macs, it's a little sad when a Commodore 64 built in 1982 has better usb thumbdrive management than a modern Apple Mac.
Yes, you can buy usb expansion cards for the Commodore 64.
No "safe ejection" necessary.