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
    14·
    5 months 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
    12·
    5 months 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!

    • th3raid0rOP
      6·
      5 months ago

      Well, I mean, most corps trying to shoehorn AI into things are using Cloud implementations of the various “AI” solutions.

      What, pay for our own datacenter? Nah.

      Just import openai and add “the AI” that way. 🤦‍♂️

  • GarlicToast
    3·
    5 months ago

    Now run a VM from Google Cloud on a system booted from Google Cloud.

    • th3raid0rOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      Hahah, good luck. Proton Drive is really terrible. I can’t even upload a single 1GB file through the service.