I never really understood why etcher was the choice, it was a crazy bloated program that was like 100 or 150mb? To do the same job as Rufus could do in like a dozen or so, and if you’re on Linux you can just use gnome disks or something, never had any issues there either. Just made no sense to me why they recommended it in the first place.
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Etcher was a good piece of software. As soon as Balena bought it and stuffed their name in front, things started going south. I wish the weird name and shift to an unintuitive icon were the only things that had happened...
Isn’t Balena’s entire business model taking things that could easily run locally and wedging a cloud dependency in to allow them to be profitably enshittified?
There are like a dozen other ways to do what Etcher does so... 🤷
What's the point of including KeePass in Tails if it's effectively wiped on reboot? Am I misunderstanding?
I'm sure you could mount an encrypted volume.
Or just have the keepas db on a usb stick or something
You can enable a persistent volume on the start up screen or use it where it wipes on reboot.
Use dd, or check out the Fedora Media Writer if you want a GUI tool.