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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oof. Honestly I do the same thing and I think your experience just convinced me not to. I keep a couple of those junk vendor USB's just for things like BIOS updates since the capacity is usually small. I hadn't considered one failing right in the middle of an update.