Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
arstechnica.com
Rejected chips, hidden microSD cards plague the USB stick market.

Many have microSD cards soldered to their circuit boards.

  • rem26_art@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    i just had one of those free sticks that I got from an event die on me the other day. I should pry it open and see if it’s just a microSD card lmao. Didn’t lose anything of worth on it cuz it was only like 128MB

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      9 months ago

      Didn’t lose anything of worth on it cuz it was only like 128MB

      What year was the event, 2005?

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Reminds me of the time when I bought a stack of microSD cards and readers from alibaba. About half of the cards and readers were dead on arrival, and the remaining ones died within a few years.

    Now I’ve learned my lesson. This is what happens when a company outsources quality control to the customer.

    • VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I had a less technical savvy coworker putting together a raspi for something, emulation I think. And he was notoriously cheap, he told me he got a micro SD from China for a suspiciously low price.

      Well during this endeavor, he would keep asking me about random errors he was seeing. And I kept saying bro it is that cheap SD card you bought. He wouldn’t hear it.

      Eventually, he tried out another SD card and sure enough, no more weird errors.