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From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Jan 10 22:05:54 2026

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On 11/5/2025 10:59 PM, Lawrence (Larry Duh) DrCOOliveiro wrote:

<<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/custom-intel-motherboards-with-a-whopping-36-usb-ports-spotted-online-extravagant-connectivity-offering-fuels-bot-farm-speculation>>
comes with 36 -- count rCOem -- USB ports.

Imagine filling them all with storage devices: Dimdows couldnrCOt cope.

Only 36?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow

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From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Jan 11 04:39:55 2026

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At Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:05:54 -0500, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

On 11/5/2025 10:59 PM, Lawrence (Larry Duh) DrCOOliveiro wrote:

<<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/custom-intel-motherboards-with-a-whopping-36-usb-ports-spotted-online-extravagant-connectivity-offering-fuels-bot-farm-speculation>>
comes with 36 -- count rCOem -- USB ports.

Imagine filling them all with storage devices: Dimdows couldnrCOt cope.

Only 36?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow

https://youtu.be/hiwaxlttWow?t=625
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From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Jan 11 08:33:33 2026

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vallor wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

At Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:05:54 -0500, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

On 11/5/2025 10:59 PM, Lawrence (Larry Duh) DrCOOliveiro wrote:

<<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/custom-intel-motherboards-with-a-whopping-36-usb-ports-spotted-online-extravagant-connectivity-offering-fuels-bot-farm-speculation>>
comes with 36 -- count rCOem -- USB ports.

Imagine filling them all with storage devices: Dimdows couldnrCOt cope.

Only 36?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow

https://youtu.be/hiwaxlttWow?t=625

:-D :-D :-D
:-D :-D :-D :-D
:-D :-D :-D

"My favorite thing is when the system just starts kicking
devices off. It's like the computer's hosting a house party
and way too many people start showing up, until the host just
loses their shit and starts throwing people out. "I said you
could bring a plus one, not a plus thirty-one, get out!"

"Seriously, how does Linus NOT know that the simple act of
opening Task manager pegs most CPUs at 100% for a couple
seconds."

On this mini PC I have one hub with 6 devices plugged in, with the
hub plugged into another hub with 7/10 slots filled, going to
a type C connector on the PC. And one USB-to-headphone converter
in the back for my main sound system. So about 14 devices.

Not enough to need a USB-inator :-)
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From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Mon Jan 12 20:22:01 2026

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On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:05:54 -0500, DFS wrote:

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 03:59:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

<<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/custom-intel-motherboards-with-a-whopping-36-usb-ports-spotted-online-extravagant-connectivity-offering-fuels-bot-farm-speculation>>
comes with 36 -- count rCOem -- USB ports.

Imagine filling them all with storage devices: Dimdows couldnrCOt
cope.

Only 36?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow

So how many volumes was Windows able to mount at once?

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow&t=1247>

Linus: rCLHow many total drives did you say that you can handle?rCY
Colleague: rCLAs many as there are letters in the alphabet. But really
the problem is when a whole bunch of them connect at the same
time, then Windows tries ... to give the drive letter to multiple
drives at once.rCY

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow&t=1388>

Linus: rCLI wonder if this is more of a driver-level limit?rCY

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwaxlttWow&t=1421>

Linus: rCLWhile IrCYm disappointed that we couldnrCOt get to 127 concurrent
devices ...rCY

Why do I get this feeling you didnrCOt actually watch the video yourself
before posting?
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