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Every time I search for a USB key, I end up finding the ones flashed with OS ISOs! I don't have a normal key anymore lol
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It’s a shame these never took off. I’d love for my various USB drives to have displays that show their labels and maybe even contents.
That'd make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.
those were so long ago they're small enough that windows would still be able to format them fat32 even with its built-in limitations on formatting that filesystem.
what would be completely useless is scrolling through a larger flash drive' or card's files, one or two at a time.