Artificial Intelligence will finally have arrived when my laptop can tell me specifically which process is actually still accessing the flash drive I'm trying to eject after closing every open app on the machine.
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Usually its a finger left in a file that was not closed properly by whatever accessed it. The system simply registers it as being in use and can't even trace back to what was using it. A lot of times its just a jpg that was opened for a moment and won't let go.
lol this is so true! at jenova ai we actually built process tracking into our system. but yeah, windows needs to get their act together on this - it's 2024 and we still get that annoying "this device is in use" 🙄
(Confidential to a number of y'all who really ought to know better—this is not about not being able to figure it out for some values of figuring it out. It is about designing a system in which figuring it out, by various kludgy and abstruse and janky-ass methods, is necessary as a matter of course.)
With macOS it tells you what application is blocking the drive, but when it's just "Finder" it can sometimes be tough to figure out why it won't eject. I usually just restart entirely when I have that problem cause it only takes a few seconds and I know for sure that I'm safe to remove the drive.
i wish they made ai and programs to do like. actually useful things we cant do otherwise. but no its all about replacing the things humans enjoy doing rather that replacing the things we dont like doing lmao
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https://youtu.be/4wgP2DKSIfg?si=ioed3CmFYglD290W
Ask for a dragon instead.
It's fitting to the theme at least :D
Bit like bank apps change every day!
monkeys get here
GET-WMIOBJECT win32_diskdrive | Where { $_.InterfaceType –eq ‘USB’ }
Practically rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? 🤭