Hey kids, tell your parents about fake flash memory, before they find the hard way. https://instructables.com/Dont-fall-for-the-Flash-Drive-Scam!/ https://phonearena.com/news/Beware-of-fake-microSD-cards-Heres-how-to-tell-a-counterfeit-from-the-original_id77769
@climagic In true CLI fashion, install f3 ("fight flash fraud") to check your flash drives:
$ apt install f3 # Debian/Ubuntu
$ yay -S f3 # Arch
https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
@climagic As I'm currently looking to buy one of those things I wouldn't have recognised it as obviously fake. It doesn't have a brand name I recognise but that's about it.
I say "hey kids" because someone in my family fell for this and they're pretty smart. The problem is that people think "well prices are getting cheaper all the time", etc. The bigger issue here is that these cards have ~%0 reliability. Sure *we* know, but tell your families.