• Is it me or are there many unreliable USB flash drives?

    From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Oct 20 15:30:53 2016
    On 2016-10-19, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    I love flash drives for being super tiny and light to stick into my
    wallet to carry easily! Argh.

    Yeah, very convenient for some situations like that and moving
    movies around like I do.

    That is what I wanted to and yet they die on me. Argh!!!!!

    No thanks. I find transferring files over a network to be *much* more convenient than lugging USB sticks with me wherever I go. My USB sticks
    are mostly used as macOS installer media. They sit in a drawer most of
    the time, just waiting to be used.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Jolly Roger on Thu Oct 20 15:02:02 2016
    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2016-10-19, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    I love flash drives for being super tiny and light to stick into my
    wallet to carry easily! Argh.

    Yeah, very convenient for some situations like that and moving
    movies around like I do.

    That is what I wanted to and yet they die on me. Argh!!!!!

    No thanks. I find transferring files over a network to be *much* more convenient than lugging USB sticks with me wherever I go. My USB sticks
    are mostly used as macOS installer media. They sit in a drawer most of
    the time, just waiting to be used.

    Networks would be nice if they were fast and everywhere outside for
    huge data transfers. Also, I don't put every networked devices on the
    same LAN like foreign devices like from work, visitors, etc. :P
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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Oct 20 20:08:02 2016
    On 2016-10-20, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2016-10-19, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

    I love flash drives for being super tiny and light to stick into my
    wallet to carry easily! Argh.

    Yeah, very convenient for some situations like that and moving
    movies around like I do.

    That is what I wanted to and yet they die on me. Argh!!!!!

    No thanks. I find transferring files over a network to be *much* more
    convenient than lugging USB sticks with me wherever I go. My USB sticks
    are mostly used as macOS installer media. They sit in a drawer most of
    the time, just waiting to be used.

    Networks would be nice if they were fast and everywhere outside for
    huge data transfers.

    My networks *are* fast. If I need to transfer gobs of data, I use a hard
    drive.

    Also, I don't put every networked devices on the same LAN like foreign devices like from work, visitors, etc. :P

    Seems silly.

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