<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox" class="u-url mention">@<span>xssfox</span></a></span> With authorization?</p><p>But either way, this sounds quite cumbersome in some situations and rather fragile in some others, whereas booting a kernel with initramfs gives you a fully standalone, albeit in memory, OS that runs on the target machine without a constant need for a network connection. And it can run initialization scripts prior to bringing up a connection or connecting to a server!</p>