On counterfeit SD cards
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2 cents: Something nice I saw Lubuntu do recently during an install was checking that the squashfs was not corrupted and matched the relevant hashes. Although a seemingly small thing, imagine how many man-hours this feature has saved! I think all the Pine distros could consider such a first-time verification step to save headaches.

Recently I found that of two identical memory sticks purchased from exactly the same place at exactly the same time, one was fake, one was not. I suspect some of these really low-margin suppliers mix in legit and non-legit devices to tip the reviews in their favour. If only 10% of people complain about it not working, they can even likely get these reviews mostly removed.

A little plug: I think this is why Pine should look into creating their own storage mediums: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13301


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On counterfeit SD cards - by tkaiser - 04-18-2016, 02:56 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by jl_678 - 04-18-2016, 07:47 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by tkaiser - 04-18-2016, 08:27 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by psychedup - 04-18-2016, 11:15 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by tkaiser - 04-19-2016, 04:49 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by Shady2tree - 04-21-2016, 11:28 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by androsch - 04-21-2016, 12:13 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by Shady2tree - 04-21-2016, 01:30 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by androsch - 04-21-2016, 01:33 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by Rhymoore - 04-21-2016, 01:51 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by pine.tree - 04-21-2016, 04:57 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by ab1jx - 01-04-2020, 05:24 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by ZuzanOlszew - 04-29-2020, 06:39 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by bcnaz - 01-04-2020, 06:22 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by zaius - 01-05-2020, 01:14 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by DrYak - 01-05-2021, 05:19 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by diodelass - 05-30-2020, 01:59 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by zer0sig - 08-25-2020, 11:26 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by Luterman - 02-21-2021, 08:31 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by barray - 03-04-2021, 11:25 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by biketool - 06-28-2021, 12:25 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by bcnaz - 08-03-2021, 07:40 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by biketool - 08-04-2021, 11:43 AM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by moriel5 - 05-18-2022, 01:52 PM
RE: On counterfeit SD cards - by stuartiannaylor - 10-10-2022, 10:08 AM

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