No need to suspect/assume that every other user is an idiot... I'm a 36 year old electrical engineer... I know my way around electronics...
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I don't think people are being idiots about it. Sorry if I came off that way. I'm 33 and know my way around electronics too... and even I was sure my two gateway cards were not spring loaded simply because I had to slide them into place the first time and never tried pushing the microSD card beyond that point until the other day out of curiosity and discovered I had indeed had the spring loader this whole time. I plan to keep the spring engaged and continue to slide my cards in/out.