Gmail needs better bulk delete. On the upside, I've just used automator on mac for the first time successfully to loop my mouse clicks. Deleting 50 emails at a time. Only 6,400 clicks to go! (160,000 emails)
@philzona strace the lsusb command and see what is being sent to the hub? I assume some sort of usb "scan/wakeup" call is triggering the hub but I don't know the USB spec :P
My favorite boomer tech idea is the one where manually typing out the account number I copied from my bank website is somehow less error prone than a copy paste.