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    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 57 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

    xkcd TV Problems

    And also

    xkcd Computer Problems

    Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.

    Always been partial to this one

    [–] iocase@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You'll never regret it!

    Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.

    I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.

    [–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    maybe not ventoy specifically since it's full of binary blobs that are virtually unvettable

    [–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 48 minutes ago

    Yeah, I need to find a better way. Been trying to setup pxe boot in docker

    Justo a couple days ago I needed a microsd to usb adapter. Couldn't find one, so I loaded the files to a memory with fat usb(I don't know what it's called) and usb c connections. Then connected the memory to my phone and on my phone I moved the files to the microsd card.

    Not the same but similar vibes I think.

    It's sad that several phones are removing the memory slot.

    [–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

    I never even thought of that - you then plug in your phone as a thumb drive? Makes sense.

    [–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    I mean I'm not sure I could actually boot off of my phone as a USB drive. That would be an interesting concept.

    [–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

    There's a tool, whose name I forget, which is included in Kali NetHunter to do just that. It does whatever trickery is needed to present the phone/tablet as a bootable thumb drive. It requires root and, to my dismay when I needed it, I never owned a device that was rootable to fully use NetHunter. It could do a lot of other cool stuff via USB too; phone as a Bad USB, Rubber Ducky, automated Windows login bypasses, etc.

    [–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Unlikely. The USB protocol requires one master and one or more slaves (or whatever less charged nomenclature you prefer). In all likelihood UEFI will blindly assume to be the master while Android and iOS require negotiation to figure out who's boss and what interface to present.
    Although given UEFI it might be possible to patch that functionality in.

    [–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago

    Been there, done that