10 year old bug?

What are they talking about, that bug report is from 2014‽

… Fuck

USB block devices containing mountable filesystems (on Desktop systems) can generally have those filesystems mounted and files written to them by regular users; But the block device itself stays only root writeable.

So, you need root privileges either way.

(Going from memory, but also decently confident)

Until you use a system that doesn’t have a ~/.bashrc , and now your tab completion helpfully expands “~/.ba[TAB]” to “~/.bash_history” .