Chaotic Evil : MicroSD cards
38I have Ventoy on a MicroSD card for my Steam Deck. Saved my ass the other day.
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1Thank you
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My most McGyvered solution to create a bootable USB was to take a really old Android phone and make it into one. Worked surprisingly well, actually.
31Oh damn, would not have expected that to work. The worst hack I ever used is when I helped a friend install Linux who didn't have any spare (working) USB drives around. He did have a spare SSD in his PC however, so I ended up flashing the ISO to that.
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Back in the day: Installing MS Office with all the bells and whistles. I think it was 26 disks.
Insert disk 12....
My first Linux experience was Redhat with floppies as well.
What fun.
26sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of you with my apple juice "How did you get urgent security and application updates Grandpa?"
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From a security perspective its hard to go wrong with physical disks
12What's ventoy?
10Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
19Its like grub but for your iso's. You install ventoy, drag your iso's into the ventoy folder and bam you got a grub like selection of all your iso's
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If you have a dvd drive in your PC, you are officially old. I have one, blu ray even. Haven't used it in years. It's not even wired up atm.
8I have an optical drive in 3 of my machines. I'm not old
3Not old, either. My old desktop that I gave to my younger brother has an optical drive. Whenever I have spare money laying around to build and a place to put a desktop, it's going to have an optical drive. Not having one, at least somewhat reachable makes me anxious. I use it probably less than once a quarter, more like twice yearly, but when I need it, I need it.
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Honestly, a better solution would be an open-source IODD-type device, because sometimes I still meet old devices which do boot via USB DVD drives, but not flash drives.
But Ventoy is a second solid choice, especially with newer devices, where such limitations are basically non-existent :)
7My micro SD Card in the USB Adapter needs 2 vor 3 tries
7You shouldn't eat micro SD cards, no matter how much it turns you on.
7Better than eating a full sized SD card, at least.
3Yummy
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If you don't have a floppy disk to boot into the optimal memory configuration for your game, what are you even doing with your life?
6Me in the corner with netboot.xyz: "I am four parallel universes ahead of you"
5⚠️ The link above might be offensive. I've deleted the post but the deletion is failing to sync across instances or something (I'm still receiving reports for it after it's been deleted)
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