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Spend time setting up Hyprland just for an update to break your config and now you have to troubleshoot before you can be productive (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 110 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (27 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (11 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    i had this feature when i installed ubports (ubuntu touch) on my phone in 2021.

    much before that in 2013 my phone's stock rom had a 'driver install' mode that presents an iso file in the system partition to the computer as a virtual cdrom, i could swap out that file with a linux iso and it would boot

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The USB protocol and UEFI aren't a problem, but Android/iOS might be. I've booted various PCs from a raspberry pi (USB-OTG), but the last time I tried to boot an iso from my android phone I couldn't get it to work. It's been a while so I can't remember exactly what the issue was.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    My guess the issue is that phones don't just show up as simple drives, they rely on MTP support

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    It does, though with an app that exposes the iso.

    Edit: Right, i thought it was EtchDroid. I think it was DriveDroid (with a broken cert)? There's also SimpleBoot now.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Just 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Fat USB is called USB A. The one you use for printers is USB B. Then there are mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and USB 3.0 micro-B which are all different shapes physically. And USB A 3.0 has slightly different contacts from USB A 1.0/2.0

    Anyway, that was when USB nomenclature was still simple. Don't google anything they did past version 3.0, for your own sanity. We're now down to mostly the USB C and A shapes, but USB 3.2 gen 1x1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.0.

    USB 4 simplified things a bit, but now you can get things like Gen 4 asymmetric 3:1

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