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  • I don’t see any reply from OP so I’m growing confident that what you’re talking about is not OP’s point.

    Often times when coding you may want to quickly write down 2MB but you may need to type it in bytes, so either you calculate 2 * 1024 * 1024 while coding, or you remember the number 2097152.

    Now, since 2097152 is not such a common number that one would remember, you may quickly turn to the globally acclaimed oracle search engine to get such an answer, but all you get is a number in scientific notation, approximated, without an option to read it in standard decimal base. So you have to open the calculator and ask the same question again to get the answer you need.

    If it helps, try to ignore what’s in the search bar and tell me if it makes more sense.

    Edit: Additionally, if you were to NOT use the scientific notation, the length of the result would be shorter:

    2,097e+6 (8 characters) vs 2097152 (7 characters)






  • I have been using exfat since it has support for big ISOs and is compatible with Linux.

    The ST400 does NOT support ext4, but I didn’t care much: I wanted a partition scheme that was accessible from both Windows and Linux.

    I don’t recall ever having to change the firmware for that, nor for NTFS which I have used the very first time when testing it out.

    For my use case, I am using a cheap 120G ssd on which I only keep ISOs, so I never found myself needing multiple partitions…

    Edit: The documentation does say that it supports multiple partitions, but again, I never tested that out, so YMMV…

    Hope this helps.


  • Take a look at the IODD ST400.

    It’s a hardware solution to your problem: you put multiple isos on an ssd, plug your ssd into the ST400, then plug the ST400 into the computer you want to live boot from (through USB).

    From the ST400 you can quickly swap the active ISO, and it acts like a virtual DVD drive to the target computer, and you’re basically ejecting and inserting a new DVD every time you do so.

    You can also mount it for RW operations (ie. for inserting new ISOs without having to remove the SSD), for which it acts like a regular usb disk - but I recommend using it usually in RO mode to avoid data corruption.

    It’s not that user friendly, but once you get used to it, it’s a perfect multiboot tool to have in your belt.




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    Have you considered keeping them on YouTube but unlisted, so that they don’t show up on your profile nor in youtube searches?

    Otherwise, you could create a Google Photos album, but either quality suffers, or the videos will take a lot of space.

    All the other options I could suggest either call for a recurrent payment, but trust me, it gets tedious after a while (ie. VPS with Peertube or similar), or call for losing quality by a lot (ie. Whatsapp or Telegram channels/groups), or quickly become unpractical (ie. Mega, Dropbox…)

    There are plenty of choices, and if you’re 100% sure you’re fine with recurring payments and having to constantly mantain a system/keep it updated and secure, then go ahead and make a VPS, but if you’d rather have it be convenient, look into additional YouTube settings or common alternatives like Vimeo.



  • Not that OVH’s reputation was much higher to begin with.

    They had another fire in a different datacenter in Germany I believe, going back about 3 years, in which the business I was working for had lost only emails but was also renting a dedicated server with them in a different datacenter.

    Looking at how they handled the situation (slow response times, not offering us space in a different datacenter to at least keep receiving emails), plus after constantly experiencing IO slowdowns in their “Performance” web hosting pack (in 2 out of 3 different hosting packs), our business (and me too, personally) changed providers in the coming months for basically everything.

    I suppose that was the right choice.

    The only thing I didn’t care to switch was DNS, but this last event makes me think whether I should also switch DNS providers.

    Edit: I just realized that this post is NOT today years old but was actually the event that I had experienced.

    Whatever… I guess I’m gonna leave my experience over here anyways.