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.

  • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    Retro gaming device seems pretty cool actually. What if you configure your system so that when you plug it in, it autolaunches an emulator and looks at ROMs on the USB :o

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    14 hours ago

    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?

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          12 hours ago

          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.

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    6 hours ago

    You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.

    When the apocalypse happens and Internet goes away it’s gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps

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    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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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      1 day ago

      Seconded. You have to limit your isos on a drive that size but it’s still super handy.

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        19 hours ago

        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.

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    Recently I recreated my favorite drive. Runs grub, stores multiple distros it can boot from, has a standard exfat partition, and an encrypted partition.