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.
You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.
When the appcalupse happens and Internet goes away it’s gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps
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.
;-)
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.
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?
@GrumpyCat
I have Knoppix on a 32GB USB as a rescue system, just in case.Fill it with this
maybe you could install a “portable” linux system on it. you may want to encrypt it though
A bag of frozen peas.
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.
32gb loop of Never Gonna Give You Up
I use thumbdrives for temporary sneakernet kind of storage mostly.
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.
I installed Ventoy on mine and dropped a few live ISO files: Clonezilla, Linux Mint, and Windows PE
I’ll sometimes use the Windows PE ISO for tools like CrystalDiskInfo. Have Clonezilla to quickly test out random computers without a GUI and Linux Mint when I want a GUI.
The rest of the space comes in handy for quick and dirty file transfers between Linux/Mac/Windows/printers. Especially with my work computer never touching my primary home network, an airgapped retro gaming setup, and most of my other drives formatted for use with Linux.
