• Johanno@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    I always thought it would be funny running an os from an usb stick.

    Never would I have thought that there would be storage in the size of a stick exceeding the default configuration of a desktop pc.

    2 TB in one small nvme drive?! Wtf. Amazing but also crazy.

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      14 hours ago

      Something I was able to do with my old OnePlus 3 phone, was use it as a Linux USB. It was a pretty neat trick!

      It was really convenient to just snag a work laptop and boot it into Puppy Linux (which lives entirely in RAM) to browse around and such without my job looking too closely and being creepy about it.

      Disclaimer

      IT departments are various kinds of chill, scrutinizing, lazy, or pathologically psycho, YMMV greatly. Try at your own risk. Lol

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      When my dad first saw an nvme drive he had to triple check what he was looking at BC in his old 70s computer brain there’s no fucking way something so small and unmoving can hold so much data, read/write it so fast, and all for a relatively cheap price.