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If you could buy a USB that you could plug into any laptop / pc and boot a temporary instance directly from a URL that included latest version of a lightweight OS, nostr relay, LN node, BTC node, etc. All on the flash and RAM db and it never touched the HDD/SSD.

And when you shut it down it wiped the USB back to iPXE boot loader only, and double delete the address space. So that you could take this thing through airports and spin up anywhere in the world…

Would anyone be interested in that?
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Pyupa 2y ago

Sounds good! But what would be the difference with the Tails distribution?

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⚡️🌱🌙 2y ago

Well…

Tails has a 1.3GB OS ISO on the USB. If someone find the USB they can see that it is tails.

I’m talking about nothing on the USB except kernel init, and booting an OS from a URL using the iPXE method.

The iPXE boot is only 4.2mb.

You could boot different machines/states from different URL’s. You can boot a tiny core OS (I can find distros that are as small as 16mb) or Tails, or Denbian, or any OS you want. You could boot a different OS every time, just by using a different URL.

You can boot any image, with whatever setup you require.

You could update the URL images so that they are always current and latest security patches so that you NEVER boot with known vulnerabilities.

It’s a bit weird, yes, but it’s Friday and I’m thinking about stuff that could be done.