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• hundo@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We call them obsolete.

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• SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Privileged drives and economilcally-and-socially-disadvanted-due-to-historical-injustices drives. The last ones a bit of a mouthful, so you can use EASDDTHJ drives.

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• Happenchance@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From Wikipedia:

  Various replacement terms for ‘master’ or ‘slave’ have been proposed and implemented. In 2020, GitHub replaced the default ‘master’ git branch with ‘main’.[18] Other replacement names include ‘default’, ‘primary’, ‘controller’, ‘root’, ‘initiator’, ‘leader’, ‘director’, ‘manager’; and for ‘slave’: ‘performer’, ‘worker’, ‘peripheral’, ‘responder’, ‘device’, ‘replica’, ‘satellite’, and ‘secondary’.[18][6][21][22][23] Python switched to ‘main’, ‘parent’, and ‘server’; and ‘worker’, ‘child’, and ‘helper’, depending on context.[7][24] The Linux kernel has adopted a similar policy to use more specific terms in new code or documentation.[22] Other projects and standards have used alternative terms since their inception.

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• SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you use a time machine to go back to 2001 when that was last a thing, you can still use the original terminology. Otherwise you will never need the terms since those concepts no longer exist for drives.

  Outside of drives there are plenty of self explanatory terms like primary and secondary which work fine.

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Coincidentally that’s the year I finished grad school and was probably at the peak of my tech savviness. Things have changed a lot since then. On all fronts.

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  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say they no longer exist… ide still occasionally used for optical drives…

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    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the last two motherboards I’ve owned, purchased like 3 years and 8 years ago, did not even have a single IDE port.

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    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya know, I remember being confused when someone first used master/slave with me. They had to explain what they meant. I can’t know but I’d venture a guess that primary/secondary would’ve been more clear to me without an explanation. I wouldn’t have intuited why it’s a concept, but I would’ve been able to skip the initial confusion as to how any inanimate object would be called a “slave”

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• jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Owner and ownee?

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