Re: flashing usb sticks?

On 2022-03-19 16:07, VanguardLH wrote:
> bad sector wrote:
> 
>> The entire USB interface whorehouse is already nothing but a huge scam. It shudda been put out of its misery years ago
> 
> What is your proposal for a replacement?  What would be your new design?
> Of other existing connector types, what do you suggest?  

eSata with extra deep connector socket plus an at least one inch deep 
device body socket to grasp the plug end of a external mobile device 
designed like myself for a million insertions with little risk of tiring 


> Thunderbolt? Thunderbolt started 11 years ago.  USB started 26 years
> ago. Thunderbolt required paying a royalty to Intel until recently.> 
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/intel-to-make-thunderbolt-3-royalty-free-in-bid-to-spur-adoption/

another exercise in life-brevity i.e. planned obsolescence


> Did you buy a computer with a Thunderbolt interface?  Why not?
> Thunderbolt 3 will mutate into the USB 4 form factor.

couldn't care less

> Why not go back to the 30-year old SCSI fiber interface at 3 times the
> bandwidth of Thunderbolt?  Cost.  How much more are you willing to pay
> for a better connector?  
> 
> End users are abusive to connectors.  

A+ Sherlock

> If you want to discuss crappy connections, why does your computer still
> use the non-gold pin plug to connect external audio devices?

Because long before the usefulness of gold plating even the 1/8" audio
receptacles are absolute garbage tending to become not only loose 
and producing audio scratching and intermittant function but are even 
less well soldered to the mobo than ever before.

Now my turn. Why haven't I bought two or three other new laptops
since my Asus G73 and why am I not likely to buy another at all for 
some (read a loooooong) time to come?