i wish we had a better option than microsd for expandable storage
apart from the plethora of fake ones being sold online, they are annoying fragile in a way that i find upsetting
from the way you insert them into a phone/tablet, to their flimsiness, to their sudden and unexpected willingness to corrupt for no reason, i hate them
i bought a cheap-but-good tablet near exclusively for reading manga/comics w 128gb internal storage, capped it off with a 512gb sd card and today discovered that despite setting it as internal storage.... the android tablet just wasn't using the space, tried to change this and suddenly "your sd card is corrupted"
cue having to boot into my opensuse install to unfuck the now corrupted sd card and then back into windows to reformat to exfat (ik there are exfat utils for linux)
and i just can't recall sd cards (or compact flash, usb drives) having the same issues as microsd
give me a tablet case i can unscrew to install an m.2 drive because chances are once i install more storage I never want to take it out again, not a confusing standards sliver of plastic and metal that im terrified i could snap in half or jam into the tablet wrong if i sneeze
this bullshit is no way to install anything in anything, its a fucking sled, its so utterly antique!
i am a simple woman who wants to syncthing a collection of .cbr/z's to a folder and read them, this should not be hard
maybe i need to look at lineage os and see if it does anything better but i suspect it has the same android jank
i miss how mechanical and SOLID hardware used to feel, sure its good to have gotten away from screwing a vga cable into a monitor, but everything feels worryingly *flimsy*
not to mention, just prone to shitting itself and dying
despite my expertise i really dislike computers & currentnhardware in general because i know how much *better* they could be
for various reasons usb-c has become the defacto cable and despite all the bs fast charging or charge only cables and "usb gen2 v2 2nd edition third strike reloaded featuring shadow the hedgehog and dante from devil may cry" naming absurdity (when it so easily could be simple) at least as a cable & port it *works*
theres not a single way i xan think to install a microsd in a way that doesnt feel weird and wrong