Ive got some ideas to try with a flashdrive ive picked up but i want to know what others would do with such a device? I was thinking i could use it for retro gaming or something like important files.
What would you do?
I know its not alot of room but i got it for cheap.
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Ventoy? Linux live iso files aren’t too big less than 5Gb each. You could toss on a handful of utilities like memcheck, clonezilla, and a hdd eraser. Then a few isos of distros you want to try. Adding and removing isos is a breeze with ventoy.
Did the Ventoy binary blob thing ever get resolved?
/dev/urandom- you never know what you’re going to getI keep getting the complete works of Shakespeare but the main character is always named Dave. 🤷
How is this so hard!? A monkey could do it!
You could install a full suite of portable applications: portableapps.com
I’d start off by formatting the thing with Hiren’s boot usb. This way you’ve got that build as the base and the utilities that are prepackaged therein. Then you add all the portable stuff you think you might need.
Is Hirens still updated? Last time I used it (years ago) it was pretty long in the tooth.
I’ve been using it all the time. Currently I think uses windows 10 as the shell if I’m not mistaken? But there’s still also the 7.
Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.
Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.
Tails is a pretty cool thing to have around.
Tails is a great way to get the NSA on your thumb drive too. Bonus: download more RAM usage.
Care to elaborate?
You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.
When the apocalypse happens and Internet goes away it’s gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps
You should probably take the hit and put a few 4K pieces on there as a treat. Maybe balance out with a 480/720 collection for smut.
What is the appcalupse??? Is that some Jamaican catastrophe that ends all software application?
I corrected it, now you look like a fool
I am shamed! Oh the humiliation.
;-)
A bag of frozen peas.
32gb loop of Never Gonna Give You Up
Fill it with this
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Come oooon, where are the comments about cool hacking shit where you can extract data or installs a keylogger just by plugging in the flash drive?
you’re thinking of badusb, generally it’s gonna require bespoke or modified hardware :/
Aaaw maaaan :(
there’s still plenty of ways to make stuff autorun in a similar way. the thing that makes proper badUSBs so scary is that they’re recognized by the system as a keyboard.
it’s somewhat difficult to discern bad actors from regular users for this kind of attack, but it also hasn’t become prolific enough for anyone to bother. at a certain point it’s more the fault of building security for allowing some randy to access to sensitive hardware.
maybe you could install a “portable” linux system on it. you may want to encrypt it though
Check out Kiwix for offline libraries like Wikipedia and TED
Recently I recreated my favorite drive. Runs grub, stores multiple distros it can boot from, has a standard exfat partition, and an encrypted partition.
Wanna share more details? Sounds like something I should actually put on my 32gb
I’ll work on putting something together with all of the details.
@thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz
Finally got around to writing everything up. I’d love to eventually add some visual customizations and chain loading of the installed OS.
Cool! Saving for later.
Ventoy with medicat
Seconded. You have to limit your isos on a drive that size but it’s still super handy.
Yeah, or trim some of the portable apps in medicat since a few are redundant, to make room for a couple more ISOs.
The cool thing with ventoy is you can just drag and drop isos in the folder, no need to reflash.
