xttweaponttx

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Joined 2 年前
Cake day: 2023年7月1日
  • xttweaponttxtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
    3·
    7 小时前

    😂 I also read this as Ron’s voice!

    Nah as much as i love doing stuff via terminal, I am extra paranoid specifically about writing to the wrong device and losing data; I prefer as many confirmations as possible that I’m writing to the correct drive, and graphical installers tend to give me just a few more reassurances. A few examples would be stuff like

    • a graphical representation of partitions (the general layout of a drive tends to offer an easy ‘fingerprint’ in my mind; like the pattern of partitions help me confirm I’m looking at, say, a Debian install USB compared to a single-partition general purpose storage disk)
    • icons for different types of devices, like an SD card, USB, or hard disk icon
    • confirmation dialogues summarizing what device is targeted, and what all will be performed

    I’m also the kind of person who stares at a written email worrying about every last nuance of my phrasing, so 🤷‍♂️😂 definitely a me problem, I think!

  • xttweaponttxtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
    13·
    7 小时前

    Balenaetcher has, for me at least, failed to write to USBs for the last 3 years or so that I’ve tried to use it - meanwhile random iso writers from flatpak have been more reliable for me. Very obnoxious that so many iso related sites recommend it. Rufus kicks tons of ass, if for whatever reason you’re still on windows.

    Also on most distros I’ve tried, the disk utility has some sort of right click or context menu that gets you a ‘restore disk image’ button that works great as well.

    Edit= I used Popsicle USB writer from flatpak on steam deck with no issue today! Made by system76 (makers of popOS) and found on flatpak. It is absolutely no frills, but works well enough to write an SD card image for a raspberry pi! 🙂

  • xttweaponttxtoGreentext•Anon sets up a prank at school
    8·
    7 天前

    That’s not even the best one, though. For a brief window I tried my best to create a little portable Ubuntu environment on a USB drive so I could just bring all my software with me, games and all, and just boot into it when I got to school!

    Well, eventually I had the thought that I could potentially install it on a second hidden partition, and select it from boot time… But I guess in the heat of the moment (I had a little group of friends standing behind me blocking the librarians’ view, all cheering me on), I ended up misclicking and overwriting the OS, wiping the hard drive in the process 😅😅

    Needless to say, they were not thrilled. Unfortunately, believe it or not, a group of kids crowded around one guy at a computer is a fucking beacon when you’re searching video feeds for suspects 😅 they had found me out by the next day and banned me from the computers for a year. (My friends just gave me their logins anyways 🤘)

  • xttweaponttxtoGreentext•Anon sets up a prank at school
    151·
    7 天前

    Ah man I have so many stories about my high school schenanigains.

    Every student had a folder named as their student ID on the smb network, all in one big folder. I created a folder there with a fake student ID just 1 above mine, so all I had to do was change my path from /students/1234 to 1235 and bam - I’m in my alt account. I had cracked copies of halo, starbound, gmod, powder toy, Terraria, Minecraft… all sorts of goodies!

    Eventually I found that since this phony user folder 1235 wasn’t tied to a domain user, its read/write permissions weren’t locked down - so anybody on the network could access or add to the folder, so I shared it around with friends and it grew quickly! Didn’t realize that meant deleting stuff, too; some kids just had chaos in mind, and would randomly delete shit because hAHa I DelEted the FolDer!!1! Ah, high school.

    So eventually I got a system down where I’d keep backups elsewhere, and I’d refresh the war-torn main folder every so often, or switch to a new bogus ID to keep it among my friends - but better yet, if I was lucky enough to catch it disappearing in realtime, I’d often throw it right back up with something flashy and new in there, like a new CoD game or something, with surface level ‘shortcut’ links to the game executable right at the top of the directory, complete with a convincing custom icon. Instead of running a game or something, though, it instead ran scripts that either identified the leak (CD tray eject in a library computer bay? Immediate audio queue locating the assholes), or in later stages when patching the leak still failed, I’d bait them into a script that’d nuke their PC somehow 😂

    my personal favorite, I built what I called the ‘tree bomb’ - a recursive .batch file that launches itself in another window, then runs "tree C:". Within around a second you’d go from a functional PC to a screen filled with terminals spitting out a representation of your hard drive’s contents 🤣 in retrospect, I made a malware! 😅