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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Never cheap out on things that hold data, or power supplies.

At best, you'll get extremely lucky and nothing untoward will happen.. giving you false confidence to try again.

At worst, catastrophic loss of data, hardware, or more.