Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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bash: Sudo: command not found
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Lol, nice one
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I remember a while back, years before this surfaced, there was a thread on /g/ with a group photo of Balena's employees and a caption like "why does it take so many people to develop an electron wrapper around dd". Obviously it was low effort engagement bait (balena does much more than etcher), but the comments were full of people calling the company a glowie honeypot and the like. Moral of the story: Trust the schizos, they sense spyware form lightyears away.
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The price of doing business with UEFI. There are ways around it but it works so fucking smooth. I'm down with it.
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.. and the sign said the bytes of the distro are written to the SD card …. if they’re un-tar’d ..
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Sudontplease
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I like clicking buttons that have a text on them saying what they do instead of trying to memorize a gajillion terminal commands and flags where I have to enter more commands and flags to see what they do.
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In my early days of Linux, I royally fucked up a USB thumb drive (back when they were expensive) using
ddand as a result do not trust myself with it.I would use Hannah Montana Linux if it was the only GUI option to burn a USB ISO.
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I knew that UI had something to hide!
Never trust an overly fancy UI...
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plus it's some some sanity checks like not showing you your system drives. Or warning you when the drive you are about to nuke is suspiciously large and maybe not the usb drive you actually want to use.
This is basically the main feature. Stopping you from fatfingering the wrong drive
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What options are there for flashing to SD cards? Something that works on Mac too would be nice. A gui is preferred.
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what is a good one to use, is there something like rufus on linux
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Yet another reason for people to run a default prompt (deny until prompt answer) firewall.
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I've typically used Etcher when I have to write an ISO on Windows
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Who tf is downvoting? Ventoy is the best
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for Windows?
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nah, plenty of good stuff with good ui.
balena had a pretty tasteless gui too tbh, and ads promoting other shit...
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Plug your usb drive in and run lsblk to figure out which letter to use instead of x in /dev/sdx
sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M status=progress
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Weird. I can't even tell you how many times I've used that command. But it's probably been several thousand. And I've never screwed up a flash drive that way.
There has been once or twice where I've pulled the flash drive out too quickly after it finished writing and it actually hadn't finished writing and had to redo it, but other than that, I've not actually screwed up any drives beyond repair or anything.
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Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were on Windows. That's a Linux command. I haven't used Windows very much since about 2018, so I don't even consider Windows anymore unless it's brought up.
