Oh no worries!
Also hdparam/nvme-cli will let the drive erase itself, and should be faster than operating through a computer. Like it can take seconds on some SSDs since it wipes the chips in parallel, and some drives are self encrypting, so it just deletes the key, leaving the scrambled data. But those usually won't work on USB drives.
Not really, but once you've patched the driver, run
dkms statusanddkms build <id from status>(e.g.dkms build nvidia/580.76.05) to rebuild the driver for your current kernel.When you get it working, it'll be a good idea to write a little guide here for other people to follow.