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The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

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People that take a bucket to the river for their water don't have to worry about plumbing leaks. Not having to spend time gathering water is worth the time of dealing with plumbing for me. I feel similarly towards having to do surface level vacuuming vs the time of dealing with firewalls.

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Making the leap

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I think it's pointing out that people will ask still themselves, "What was I waiting for?" even when there were valid reasons to wait. It reminds me of internalization or self-blame.

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System76 on Age Verification Laws

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Individual sites will have their data leaked then aggregated by data brokers. Those data brokers both sell the aggregated data and experience data leaks themselves. The data keeps moving from actor to actor while the aggregation is continued until eventually finding it's way into a public repo or security researcher data sets.

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Is there a way to fix the slow writing speeds on USB sticks?

Do you think you may be using USB sticks with a small SLC cache? If this is the case I would expect the transfer to be fast until the cache fills up then it would slow down to the speed of the rest of the NAND for remainder of the transfer. You wouldn't experience the slow down unless you were transferring files larger than the cache. This could explain why the issue has followed you across so many computers.

More affordable USB sticks may have cache sizes of 1 - 2 GB. I've seen high performance models available with 64GB caches.

If this is the cause of your issue, using a USB stick with a larger cache would be a solution.