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If you've been using SD cards for years, you probably have old ones lying around with low storage and not much use. This solution will give them a new purpose.

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I bought a USB drive (Kingston DataTraveler Kyson - Type-A - 128 GB - 3.1 - Read: 200 MB/s - Write: 60 MB/s). I tried using Rufus 4.11.2285 portable to create a persistent Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon ...

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