Because I spent so much time trying to track this down and went down so many dead-ends, I want to tell everyone that what caused my very strange #USB behavior on my brand new #Windows 11 system was in fact @WesternDigital Security. The symptom was that any time there was a lot of data going to or from an external hard drive, I would get USB connectivity dropouts to other devices, including my keyboard, mouse, and sound card. The easiest way to see this was that the keyboard backlight would flash.

I've been reading "The Center Cannot Hold" lately, and something in the prose reminded me of an incident to which I bore witness in 5th or maybe 6th grade which reminded me of how far we've come understanding mental illness (though we have a long way to go yet) 1/9 #mentalillness I was attending a school for the gifted, and in those days there were few enough of us that we all got bused to this school once a week with other kids from all around the county. 2/9