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Originally Posted by knc1
Even mine has been bit-rotting at a rapid pace.
It has kept me up all night, just fixing it for things people are reporting.
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That is a normal part of being the proud parent of a new baby. Live and learn. I am sorry that you have to support the bricked kindles caused by the other guy's thread. It is not fair that he expects you to support his mess when you cannot even repair his tutorial as new events unfold (a normal part of new product releast). But a sad fact of reality now that it happened despite my request to not do it (I foresaw this mess and
tried to stop it). I guess I should have been more specific about potential consequences rather than just mentioning hacker ethics implications. My advice would likely have gone unheeded anyway, just as history revealed.
Also, I pointed out in that other thread that "just pulling the plug" (unsafe USB removal) is dangerous and can cause data corruption (especially when windows forces disk checking due to the "dirty bit" getting set and you end up with a bunch of .CHK files). However, my post (with very carefully chose polite words) was quickly deleted moments before other unfortunate events. So insisitence that "just pulling the plug after waiting 10 seconds is safe" (completely not true) prevailed in that thread and may cause more problems for folks who choose to follow it.