Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

Post by 0-_-0 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #10

netsharc wrote: post #5

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 - And never been happier. I hope it still counts as a view for the channel/owner though, but never investigated if that's actually the case.

Post by hackomorespacko » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #3

Old scanners were 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.

Post by forinti » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #7

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.

Post by alnwlsn » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

foobarian wrote: post #14

> built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used) Wait a minute, what?? How did I not know about this.

Post by basilikum » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

petcat wrote: post #12

0-_-0 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)