Explanation of the last panel?

All that micro rust accumulating in your bones!

Makes sense

What’s an example use case for this? Not criticising, i seriously cannot think of anything.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3263036/file-system-that-uses-tags-rather-than-folders#3263550 but I remember reading elsewhere about actual file systems done this way, not overlays above hierarchical ones

I think this all has been tried and didn’t get traction. Although it has been before everyone had devices that hide the filesystem from you.

Well it’s a program that turns a huge array of bytes into a directory tree by allocating some of these bytes for data structures holding directory structure, metadata etc. The simplest to understand example would be FAT16 or floppy formats from 80s home computers. These had a lot of shortcomings, which were solved by more and more complex data structures.

You can write a Python script that reads /dev/sda byte by byte and displays the directory tree. That would be a simple file system driver.

We rarely cook together, but when we do, one person does prep and the other cooks, like in a professional kitchen. Eliminates a lot of tension.

It was so widespread that around 2004-2005 you could buy dvd players that supported avi/mp4 files with external subtitles. They don’t create products like that for niche markets.