You don’t burn files to a flash drive through, that only applies to optical media.
Yes, I’m the life of every party, why do you ask?
some systems still refer to it as burning regardless of the destination hardware
‘Burning’ is the act of destructively writing (or burning, since you permanently burn the 1s into 0s on the medium) data to a read-only medium, such as a PROM or later also optical media.
The term seems to have changed since, since you often also ‘burn’ RW-DVDs even though you really only write, so I wouldn’t call it too far fetched to also ‘burn’ RW-PROMs (aka. EPROMs, or FLASH).
Actually, you do quite literally burn NAND /flash memory (used in thumb drives and SSDs) continually every time you write to it because of damage to the oxide layer, you’re essentially burning the silicon dioxide (glass).
Millennials aren’t the only ones to burn media. Your phone is probably doing it right now.
You’re welcome.
All long-term memory storage methods involve violence against a physical medium. Fite me.
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