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Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard
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I mean, I never worried about it even back in the day when the computer would yell at you if you didn't click the stupid safe disconnect thing in the system tray.
Nothing ever happened. At worst, a thumbdrive would get corrupted and have to be reformatted. And I also grew up with the mouse and keyboard being PS/2, not USB, so it didn't matter for those at all.
The purpose of the ‘stupid’ safe disconnect is the same as it is today, to finalize cached writes. If you are transferring large files to the device and don’t safely remove/disconnect the device then don’t act confused because the data isn’t there when you plug it into another computer. Or do, because that’s what users do.