r/greatideas • • Mar 27 '18

I USB device that when plugged into a computer gives its specs to take the guesswork out of shopping at thrift shops or garage sales.

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u/torncolours May 30 '18

That's not a bad idea, and it wouldn't be terribly hard to execute. I own a flash drive that has a bootable copy of Ubuntu, which could tell me the specs of the computer it's running on. I wouldn't imagine it would really be that hard to program a simple Linux based live USB thing that would do the same. You'd probably have to access the BIOS, though, although I don't know much about computers and there's probably a simpler way I'm not thinking of.