USB thumbdrives are very handy.
USB thumbdrives are also very fragile when sticking out of the side of the laptop.
Somehow one of my thumbdrives many months ago suffered a partial bend and almost rendered it unusable. Even worse, was the fact that it stored my network user profile which would have been bad to lose overall.
On the upside, my user profile operations ran very fast.
On the downside, if I forgot the key, I was left with only a local laptop logon.
You could almost consider it a "poor man's BitLocker".
Anyway, even since then, whenever I put a thumbdrive into my laptop, I use a little 3 foot USB extension cable that I wrap around my screen and lay the thumb drive on top of the laptop near the keyboard.
If anything gets accidentally bumped, at worse, I am out a USB port, or a broken USB extension cable.
