Me too - my take on it was the end of the world is nigh and Jesus is returning to Earth, but on the way back he passes Francis’ soul

multi-threaded rustc

I am still quite ignorant of the workings of rust/rustc (I’ll learn it tomorrow, I swear!) but I’m surprised that multi threaded compilation isn’t available by default. make/gcc have had it for several decades

Has SpongeBob said thank you once?

Oof

*Nintendogs

Slackware taught me appreciation for apt/yum dependency resolution.

It was a great learning experience, but I doubt I’d ever go back

Never actually tried LFS but I have done Gentoo from stage 1 (back when that was an option), so I’m going to use your statement as an indication I can skip LFS 😁

I was actually tempted to try learning nasm for funsies a year or two ago until I discovered it doesn’t support ARM processors 🥲

So if you want to use systemd-boot as the bootloader you have to (apparently) install the systemd-utils package. Or you can just use GRUB / efistub.

Edit: looks like groche beat me to it 😁

It’s probably been 4 years since I last had to rebuild my Gentoo, but I would be very surprised if there weren’t good OpenRC instructions. I built mine with systemd and Gentoo handbook instructions always felt like ‘Are you sure you don’t want to use OpenRC? Ok, here are the systemd steps I guess’

An obviously talented programmer is no longer working on a free project that very few people can meaningfully contribute to - that is a shame.

I can’t even get myself to learn rust, let alone make a GPU driver while reverse engineering blackbox hardware.

But how to get the OS to recognize it?

My approach for doing this in Gentoo with an encrypted /home is to configure dracut to make a slightly customized initrd.

Thanks to dracut modules, not too much configuration is needed - it prompts on boot for the password to decrypt, and then fstab is just configured to mount the decrypted uuid.

Someone else mentioned using multiple key slots, but I think this is your only real secure option.

Edit: on second thought, you may be able to get this to work in grub simply by adding rd.luks.uuid=xxx as a kernel boot parameter, and then having the decrypted /dev/mapper uuid in fstab for /home

Life imitates art

Ye man I go here too. Prices are fair and Dr. B is fantastic

What is the deal with genocide?

A few decades ago I bought a used IBM as a *nix server, but it would lock up at nearly random intervals like you describe. Tried a different Linux distro… same issues. Tried BSD - same issues!

It wasn’t until after I learned of the 1999-2007 capacitor plague that I inspected the motherboard and saw that yes, several of the capacitories were bulging.

https://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html

I mailed the motherboard to a servicer who replaced all the capacitors for a nominal fee. After that it was a rock solid system. You mention that this is recent hardware, but I would still suggest taking a peek at those caps.

Interesting information, but my response is ‘meh’.

How is this really any different than what Fox News does daily?

Partisan private companies gonna partisan.

Love it

I went camping once with my dad and a few of his buddies when it was frigid cold outside. We piled 5 adult bodies into a camper, and they also left a Coleman gas lantern lit inside the camper all night for warmth.

I couldn’t sleep for two reasons:

1. One of my dad’s buddies had horrible snoring, and

2. I could feel myself choking on the stale air. I ventured outside every so often and would hold the camper door open for a few minutes (or until I would get yelled at). I don’t remember 100% but I think I had a persistent headache that night.

I’m still convinced we could have all died.

Iirc the original steamOS was Debian based and you really had to be an experienced Linux user to use and enjoy it.

With the new steamOS (arch based?) it’s a much more streamlined experience and opens up the user base because of it