Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create...

A coworker send me this fantastic piece on getting linux to boot off of google drive (and s3). Definitely a fun read!

(I’m not the author of this article)

  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

    I’m just joking, as stupid and impractical as it is to use the cloud as your boot drive I do always love seeing stupid stuff like this. Neat

  • Deebster@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    If there is anything I know about technology, it’s that moving everything to The Cloud is the current trend.

    Currently it’s shoehorning AI into everything, surely?

    But good stuff, always nice to see pointless bad ideas proved possible!