>As others have pointed out, the Pi can run just fine off of USB and the newer ones support it out of the box. I'm fully aware of that. In fact, and ironically

>As others have pointed out, the Pi can run just fine off of USB and the newer ones support it out of the box. I'm fully aware of that. In fact, and ironically enough, I'm one of those people you are referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26157437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26157437 >I wish the RPi foundation would make it clearer in their documentation and blog posts you're going to have a bad time if you use a generic SD card as if it was a general-purpose hard drive. Conversely, I wish they would tell all their approved sellers not to include those "generic" SD cards (Raspbian/RPi OS preinstalled and all) with Pi's.