Let's see.The first computer game that I played was the sumerian game on some Sperry mainframe. The joy when you had dual 5.25" drives: one for the bootable DOS and one for your files *at the same time". The first PC hard drive: 5MB

Windows 3.1 was not bootable. You loaded MSDOS first and often the autoexec.bat would be configured to load Windows.

Almost got an heart attack yesterday bc I put my computer on sleep mode too often and suddenly got a "no bootable" screen 💀

Suddenly: Bootable device not found

Got a new Mac. MBP 16". Had to create a bootable installer for Sequoia first. Tried Migration Assistant, took over 5 hours to finish. After finish, issues with keychain because it was replaced by Passwords. Now trying Time Machine backup, says 8-9 hours. 😱 why does this process feel so old?Got a new Mac. MBP 16". Had to create a bootable installer for Sequoia first. Tried Migration Assistant, took over 5 hours to finish. After finish, issues with keychain because it was replaced by Passwords. Now trying Time Machine backup, says 8-9 hours. 😱 why does this process feel so old?

Well fuck me sideways, Rufus maybe recognized the problem, BUT STILL DIDNT MANAGE TO CREATE A BOOTABLE STICK FFS

I always make my bootable thumbdrives by using dd to copy the ISO directly to the raw drive. I don't know why, but I've never found a GUI tool that's actually reliable.

I am currently trying (and failing) to even get a bootable debian install usb working. stay humble, peeps.

The tails OS she is referencing here is a hardened bootable OS :)

I want to get these and install a small bootable os on one.