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In a world obsessed with AI and distributed everything, simple problems like "mount this USB drive on every OS without headaches" still feel unsolved. That’s bo
by kkaske 9mo ago
In a world obsessed with AI and distributed everything, simple problems like "mount this USB drive on every OS without headaches" still feel unsolved. That’s both humbling and oddly comforting.
- pieterhg 9mo agoAI reply
- keeganpoppen 9mo agoai comment
- bigyabai 9mo agoIt's solved, though. The only reason it feels unsolved is because Apple won't document APFS to save their life.
- ValentineC 9mo agomacOS Sequoia refused to mount a FAT32-formatted microSD card from a security camera because the partitioning wasn't compliant or something. I installed Windows 11 in a VM, and it mounted just fine in there.
- bigyabai 9mo agoPrecisely to my point. On OSes that don't arbitrarily filter which filesystem you can use, it is a solved problem. It only feels like an unsolved problem because some OEMs benefit from the fragmentation.