Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s called a thumb drive and you can do it as long as the computer you are using has the option to boot from USB enabled in BIOS (typically personal machines come with that enabled but machines out in the public often disable it specifically because they don’t want you booting a different OS)

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  • GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But if it were an NVMe slot… That’d be juicy.

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can get near that level of performance with a small thunderbolt drive.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … you can totally do that now?

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  • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Although possible, it’s not really optimal to run an OS via USB

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    • skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But if you get a really lightweight one it still can be better than those times… There were much less storage, RAM, CPU, etc. back then and still worked. Maybe not Windows, but there are more OSes

      FreeDOS if you wanna go real retro.

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  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yep, all you have to do is buy a hot swap bay for your computer, and sometimes enable the feature on your motherboard.

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