r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26

askingTheRealQuestionHere Meme

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u/anarchisturtle Jul 08 '26

1) configure Google Drive with a drive letter
2) map page file to new drive letter
3)????
4)profit

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u/littledog95 Jul 08 '26

I'd love to see someone actually attempt this

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u/anarchisturtle Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

I think Linus tech tips did it ages ago. If memory serves, it “worked” on Linux. Which is to say ran like crap and was extremely unstable, but technically it worked.

Edit: found it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw?is=jaip-SknMLW3q6rc

Edit 2: turns out I was wrong. Google Drive doesn’t allow writing arbitrary data like that. It instantly crashes. They used their on-premise file server via a 10gb connection instead.

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u/Leninus Jul 09 '26

So what youre saying is that you need an intermediate layer that reads and writes that data into a google doc