• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    …and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as “burning” as well.

    Now I don’t say that anymore because I don’t want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don’t want people to take me at my word or think I’m just plain mad.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      I always somehow thought the distinction of “burning” a USB thumb drive was adding an MBR or setting something that ordinary file writes don’t do.