Just happened to me the other day at THE worst possible moment. I bought a new mainboard which needed a BIOS update to work with my new CPU.
Me of course being a cheapskate I bought the cheapest one with no Bios flashback. So I put the files on a cheap USB, start the upate and compleatly bricked the mainboard.
After that I plugged the USB back into my PC and the fking USB corrupted the files.
Luckily I managed to save the BIOS but absolutley lost it in that moment.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
What, you expect the flash drives they hand out for free at trade shows to be decent quality?
They are intended to be used to distribute advertising materials, not be rewritten multiple times.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
E-waste, I say no to these same as I say know to straws, or plastic forks for takeout.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
A business card with a link to the content would be a lot less wasteful.
ch00f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember some kid at a job fair in college handing out his resume on flash drives. I remember one of the booths saying “yeah, that’s not getting read.”
T156@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’d be an awful security risk if they did. You can’t trust that the USB stick contains the resume to begin with. A
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Since their brand is on it, yeah. I would expect that if the company wants my business, they wouldn’t put their name on shit quality products. Especially if it can lead to their potential customers losing data.