The Worst Possible Way To Boot Linux!

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• nothing says 'i'm insecure' more than having google drive as your boot.

• Oh my oh my. Technically ✨

• Private X microblogs do make for good ACL capable kv stores with a built in search and GUI… upload limits (posting) kill you tho 😉 (yeah, some things are a shouldn't… if you have static data you can drip… no, really, don't do this. no. don't. stop.) RSS is still the king of the clear web in some ways.

• I have to admit, one of my favorite feelings is when I am being told "you can't do that" when discussing something I am already "guilty" of.

• So a zero client with extra steps that hardly works?

• Instant provisioning?
  Or you could just use a NixOS config.
  Plus, this is a flat filesystem.

• Way to use 400% of your CPU. Running FUSE is not great when it's running off the internet. Better set NoAtime.
  Also what if you wrote a NBD driver to connect to google drive. Using a disk image makes sense.

• And then Google started to inject intrusive and '''''personalised'''''' adverts in Linux thanks to Google Drive's spying AI technology 😂😂😂

• But can it run DOOM?

• I guess Sun was right: the network is the computer
  But I really wish they also added some ipxe.
  But the real deal is actually: booting of IPFS, fully decentralized storage.

• I actually predicted this would happen, I just thought it would be a mobile os that runs off of data.

• You keep saying don't do this, but I have the distinct feeling you are telling me to do this.

• might actually do this to see what lsblk looks like

• run a VM who's storage and ram are on GD

• And I thought DOSEMU was bad!

• booting out of VRAM, should be possible

• only thing this is missing is booting from the network over PXE, without the use of a USB drive with an init binary

• I booted a Ubuntu VM from OneDrive by accident worked tell it didn't cause the hard drive syncing well got out of sync

• Is this the beginning of Skynet?

• Nah, for maximum performance, you gotta boot off Google Drive, have your swap on OneDrive, and store userland data on AWS.

• The thinnest client of them all

• 1:40 "When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS" – wait what… how is this even "weird"… we did that on server farm as netboot like in 2010…

• Having the bootloader locally is cheating.

• Youtube recommended that to me, so I added it to the watch later (a.k.a. never) list, and now Brodie has a video on it.
  Cool

• SSDs? I was thrilled back when I upgraded my 8" floppy to a 5 1/4" floppy drive.

• The extra silly thing is this is mostly just missing caching logic and a more complete filesystem implementation to actually work. Network streaming of non-system software is already a thing.

• I'm booting off of a spinning hard disk right now, please send an sata SSD.

• Wait, all that effort and no Google Drive swapfile? What a waste of memes…

• The only thing I could think of to match this would be to use hand-made core memory.

• Remember kids just because you could. Doesn't mean you should.

• onedrive mounted on a macos vm as root.
  No intention of spending time on that but would certainly be more cursed.
  Actually windows vm may make things worse, pick your poison.

• This is actually scary. I see this as the first step to 100% cloud computing where you won’t own your own computer. You will basically have a router that connects to the cloud. Its mainframes all over again but controlled by big tech partnered with the govt. I won’t partake in any such activities.

• lol, I just use an NVME SSD, simple 🙂

• Well actually I was using a hard drive to boot off until a few days ago, and it was a pain, especially with the size of modern apps

• Some weyrdos might even use a spinning plastic disc 🙂 (i am not, can't even put one of them into a reading device anymore)

• I love linux

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