i was using a flash drive for testing purposes. I ordered this adapter on temu and it delivered today it works perfectly and powers the flash drive and the kobo with the device plugged into a USB power brick
https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_..._page_sn=10045
this delivered today and i was able to conirm that this method works on the kobo clara 2E Aditionaly my nickelmenu snippet works with no changes