dragonfly4933

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[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

GRUB is still the standard bootloader in physical deployments because it is the most likely to work and supports most of the features you might want in a bootloader.

UKI based booting is interesting since it seems like it might support even more features. But the last time I tried to test it, there wasn’t a ton of documentation on it and the software still seemed a bit green and inflexible.

For example, my main computer right now has a completely redundant boot process. I have 2 disks which each have an efi system partition. And the root file system is btrfs raid1 across 4 disks. This was very easy to set up and completely supported by grub with no custom configuration needed. The only slightly tricky thing I had to do to install the second efi was to use an extra flag.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That's fine and easy on desktop/web browser, but for mobile devices it is not quite as easy. You would either need to use a hacked version of the app or a third party app.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Missouri is already ignoring certain federal law, so it might not matter.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Most users likely do not know about recall, and as the guy in the video shows, there doesn't appear to be anything in a normal user interface showing that it is installed and configurable.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 months ago

If you are using a typical distro like fedora, debian or ubuntu, and you are wiping everything, you don't really need to know anything. The installer will handle everything for you. Just delete all partitions while installing and start fresh and it should all just work.

If your install media refuses to boot for whatever reason, then you may have to disable secure boot in the system EFI/BIOS menu.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

What I'm thinking. If it took that long for my server to shut down, I would just sync and force reset. Although tbh, most things are VMs now, and those reboot pretty fast and would likely not be affected much by these improvements.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want to risk getting a ban at all, the only safe thing is to not connect to the internet at all. Maybe there is some level of safety, but it could take only one mistake.

If we assume that we fully understand how nintendo catches this, we would still only ubderstand at that point in time. They could still change or push updates which could cause you a problem.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

A ton of people using github barely understand the different between github and git and often think they are the same thing or that github and git are somewhat related more than they really are.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Does that only happen when it tries to download files ending in .db.sig? If so, I think I read somewhere that db have no sig. So as long as it otherwise works, this error is cosmetic.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You could use a custom XferCommand command per PACMAN.CONF(5) with wget using -6

Something like this might work:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -6 -c -O %o %u

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

If you want something similar to vim or neovim, but without all the fuss learning how to configure it and install plugins and such, you could try helix.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

I would return it, but if you are curious you can try some of the following to get experiencing identifying bad disks.

You could try a different computer or controller to be sure.

If you can get some writes/reads to work, you can use badblocks or dm-crypt: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Badblocks#Alternatives

Badblocks will write known data to disk then read it to verify its good. If the disk is malicious, this can be faked. badblocks is also a little slow.

Using dm-crypt in the wiki will write zeros through dm-crypt which will result in random noise being written to disk, then compare with zeros to verify reads are good. This can not be faked easily since the zero stream is encrypted as it is written to disk.

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