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Booting Linux off of Google Drive

Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create...

On the brink of insanity, my tattered mind unable to comprehend the twisted interplay of millennia of arcane programmer-time and the ragged screech of madness, I reached into the Mass and steeled myself to the ground lest I be pulled in, and found my magnum opus. I follow the instructions, accept the terms of service I didn't read, create all the oauth2 secrets, enable the APIs, install google-drive-ocamlfuse from the AUR into my Arch Linux VM, patch some PKGBUILD s (it's been a while), and lo and behold! In the meantime, I added the token files generated from my laptop into the initramfs, as well as the Google Drive FUSE binary and SSL certificates, and tweaked a few settings to make my life slighty easier.

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