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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
As a recent graduate we rarely use usb drives as onedrive usually comes with our school's Microsoft account. We don't want to lose our thesis to a lost usb drive.
gpt
As a current CS student, we use flash drives all the time. 90% of the time it's as a boot drive or to transfer network drivers to things like Raspberry Pis or Jetsons. Most everything we do daily is run in VMs, and if we want to quickly share our whole environment with someone else for troubleshooting or collaboration it's much easier to copy the VM to a flash drive and give it to someone than wait for it to get sent over the network.