Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record
boginjr.com50 points by yesturi 3 hours ago
50 points by yesturi 3 hours ago
The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg
It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
I've started doing:
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -
Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
I never got any cookie prompts for this site so I guess these did not make it past the content filters which keep cdn-cookieyes.com at bay. No cookies, no problem.
Nice little project.
Back in day, magazines distributed software on flexidisc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc) I remember it being very unreliable. The magazine instructed you to copy the flexidisc to a cassette tape first as you could only usually play the disc one or two times.
In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
Old scanners where SCSI, which made me wonder if you could use them as boot devices, if you could stuff the scanner driver and OCR software into the BIOS. Might be easier now that we have uEFI.
Okay, that is very cool. I love how doable it is too if you can get hands on the media that is.
Sure, because why not!
Cool idea.