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boredsquirrel @ boredsquirrel @slrpnk.net
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Offsite Backup solution

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  • Many Fedora people use ZFS, but for an offsite machine I would use something stable like AlmaLinux/RockyLinux.

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • Oh, read "select a word"

    No idea how to setup digital signing.

    • Correct usage of a hand-me-down MacBoo

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  • Yeah really. I have a T430, tried an i7 upgrade but it ate too much battery and was crazy hot (3632QM, the "normal" model!).

    The dual core CPU still works kinda well. The keyboard is awesome but loud. The screen is terrible. I have some phone speakers I plan to use for swapping the laptop ones which are crap too.

    My T495 had an even better keyboard but proprietary, outdated (kind of, got a Spectre patch).

    The clevo honestly has crappy external hardware except the excellent screen. Camera sucks, touchpad sucks, keyboard tolerable. Very strong i7 cpu and good peripherls (well, no displayport, a nogo for FOSS computers I think)

    • Correct usage of a hand-me-down MacBoo

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  • Hmm, intel was sued by the literal NSA for the ME so they now need to include a setting for it.

    You need to place a specific bit in the BIOS and then it is disabled. This should not cause any problems.

    But for some reason, which may be a faulty USB flash install, Dasharo Coreboot on a Clevo NV41 loses the TPM when disabling the ME.

    I have 2 nitrokeys so might just use that as secure element instead of my TPM.

    • Credit for trying

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  • For anyone that never read it and is curious about what the hell that is

    Harrrr

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • Ah sync from RAM to disk?

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • There are some people in some stage of progress on a Fedora Atomic Asahi Remix

    • Correct usage of a hand-me-down MacBoo

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  • Corebooted Thinkpads are pretty ancient.

    But 3mdeb, Novacustom, Starlabs, System76... well and Chromebooks exist.

    Also no idea about the new ARM laptops.

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • Immutable Asahi will be a thing some day ;)

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • Okular can digitally sign, invert colors (poorly hidden away so you need to customize the toolbar, but it has multiple ways, which is kinda cool).

    TTS yes, but there seems to be progress. There is speech-dispatcher which could be used with piperTTS

    • Question: What is Linux misinformation?

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  • What does sync do?

    • Random thought: Linux has a higher market share than Firefox if stat counter is to be believed

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  • "Fastest Browser to spam your brain with Ads!"

    • Do I need to disable secure boot to install the nvidia drivers?

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  • No NVIDIA doesnt care about being upstream so until something changes they will be out of tree.

    Changed boot files hash, broken Microsoft key, you need to sign yourself.

    This is automated though.

    • Do I need to disable secure boot to install the nvidia drivers?

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  • It should go automatically. See the Fedora change proposals

    • Do I need to disable secure boot to install the nvidia drivers?

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  • The opensource drivers are not included by default (out of tree) so no this is the same scenario.

    If the boot files change, you cant just fix the signature. Thats a key feature of public-private-cryptography

    • why can't I connect to my ssh server UNLESS I enter eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" first?

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  • By default the key is named id.rsa and ssh-client may only load that. Or none at all. Very strange

    • why can't I connect to my ssh server UNLESS I enter eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" first?

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  • I have no idea why but ssh seems to not use keys with different names by default

    • TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.

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  • They used something else instead...

    • The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

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  • Libreoffice draw is really bad.

    Instead, you either need

    • masterpdf, paid but I guess worth it
    • a mix of: Firefox PDF editor (drawing, inserting images, text annotations), Pdf arranger (bundling PDFs, removing pages, reordering), GIMP (redacting, compressing), Okular (viewing, marking, drawing, bookmarks)
    • stirlingPDF, in a local Docker/Podman container, used in the browser

    There is no free tool that does all the needed things. StirlingPDF is really close though and I am working on good desktop integration.

    • Debian is a snail and its shell

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  • Nobody calls me a Slacker!