• Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      25·
      19 hours ago

      Just like sex with strangers: if you’re going to insert it, make sure to use protection.

  • DeckPacker@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 day ago

    This is literally me. A friend of mine recently mentioned that they thought about installing Linux and I was instantly like “Please let me come over and install Linux with you” ;)

  • waigl@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 day ago

    I hope you realize how much more expensive USB mass storage devices have become in the last three months.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Eh? US chiming in… In the last week I bought a 64gb usb flash drive for $15 and a 12tb usb external hdd for $189.

      Fittingly, the flash drive was for Lubuntu iso, and the hdd was because my other external harddrive was exfat formatted and I didnt want to lose all my TBs of media by reformatting to ext4. (Now my minipc diy media/file server has 18tb… Not a bad scenario.)

      Anyhoo…the external SSDs were super expensive at the store, but I didnt need that. If I were expanding my gaming setup, id be looking at external ssd.

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 day ago

      A Debian live image fits into 4GB flash drive. If you search stuff for sale you can probably find them cheap, and 4GB is practically the smallest size you can buy.

        • pelya@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 hours ago

          The biggest online store in my country has 4GB flash drives permanently on sale for $3.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            10 hours ago

            I see. Those are all USB 2.0, probably, no? Does the lower read/write speeds compared to 3.2 make a difference for booting from a live ISO?

            Cause the smallest USB 3.2 flash drives I could find were 16GB. But that leaves room for a casper.rw and a swapfile if necessary, or even multiboot, so it’s not that bad. And they come in 5 packs!

            Of course, if someone has a collection of promo sticks, use what you have of course…

        • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          I bought a brand new 4GB off Amazon last year that is supposedly made by Sandisk. Seems legit and been using it with one of my 3D printers.

          Impossible to find them in any brick and mortar store anymore. It’s so dumb because they come in handy and I hate thinking of wasting larger drives with so many writes.

          Now is the perfect time with memory being so expensive.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      14·
      1 day ago

      But distros are comparably tiny. So you can use up all those ancient sticks with a few GB you got as advertising that are collecting dust in some corner of a drawer for years. Sometimes they are even actually tiny when you free them from their tacky masot- or logo-shaped exterior.