SpaceCadet

I would assume state actors have the ability to read out your storage without needing the USB port. Even hardware security chips like secure enclave or TPM I consider to be likely compromised/backdoored by state actors.

Wouldn't they just immediately realize you've only given them the duress password?

Also, they will have imaged the phone already before attempting to unlock it, so the "delete all data" feature would be pretty pointless.

So this is basically the $5 wrench attack, but by the government

It is aligned for the southern hemisphere as well, just with winter and summer reversed.

And then your computer starts making angry co-pilot noises

Everything else is hosted on other’s servers

You can self-host bitwarden with vaultwarden.

This is why I boycott Logitech

You should boycott Microsoft instead. As you say, they're the ones permitting it.

Hegemonic powers

You can just say Russia you know. And yes, we know Russia doesn't care about de jure arguments, they only understand power and violence. De-jure arguments are just a tool to them to give talking points to useful idiots in the West, in order to sow division and weaken us.

Political Realism

The question really is: do we accept a world where a third-rate regional power gets to trample all over its neighbors, using unimaginable violence and cruelty if those neighbors refuse to act as submissive client states?

From a moral and legal point of view, it's a no-brainer to argue that we should not accept this, but even from your a-moral "real politik" point of view we should not accept it either because it goes squarely against our own interests to let a rogue state Russia regain its former superpower status by conquering major client states. Europe and the US are much stronger than Russia, so even your Political Realism dictates that we should help Ukraine defeat Russian aggression.

So yeah, there is no world in which "bUt UkRaInE pRoVoKeD RuSsIa" is a valid argument. If you think there is, you can burn in hell with Kissinger for all I care.

It basically comes down to this: being a sovereign nation means being allowed to choose your own alliances.

Calling it a "provocation" is denying Ukraine sovereignty over their own country.

The RPIs are moving to nvme too, though indeed a bit slower than desktop machines. My virtual machines use /dev/vdx, and I don't typically connect USB drives to my virtual machines with the intent to flash them :)

Well, try not to shred too many SATA SSDs then until you get there 🤡