100%

It’s literally drag and drop after initializing MBR, format FAT, set active. Rufus is pointless.

Lemmy is sure showing its usual technical incompetency while pretending they are superior because they can install Linux. In a shitpost thread no less.

If you need an app to format a drive and copy some files, maybe you should stick with Windows.

Meat.

Have you had Culver’s root beer? It’s so good. It might be even better than A&W.

I don’t think many places encrypt/hash email addresses, but even if they did they could just apply the hash algorithm to what you entered to compare the hashes.

LUKS > LVM > ext4

Every time I install a new OS I ask myself if I should use BTRFS, if for no other reason than just to experience it. But I’ve never found a good enough reason that’s worth even a sliver of stability loss over more mature options.

It’s probably because I’ve also been burned too many times trying ReFS over NTFS on Windows (except for Veeam).

Yep that’s how my desktops and servers are set up. I only recently started adding the TPM PIN to my laptops for a bit of extra protection from cold boot / evil maid attacks.

given that Secure Boot prevents any modification of your computer’s boot chain

Secure Boot does no such thing. All it does it require that everything in the boot chain is signed by a trusted cert.

Binding TPM PCR7 to FDE (or more brittle options like 0+2+4) is really what protects against boot chain modifications but that’s another topic.

Disabling SB to install the distro, then re-enabling it once installed with either maintainer-signed shim or self-signed UKI/bootloader is perfectly fine.

You need both FDE and Secure Boot, ideally with FDE using a TPM with PIN and PCR 7+15=0. FDE without SB can be trivially boot-kitted and obviously SB without FDE is mostly pointless. Maybe for a server/desktop behind locked doors you don’t worry as much, but for a laptop you absolutely should. Also it’s really easy in Arch to resign the UKI with sbctl via a pacman hook whenever the kernel is updated so there’s no good reason not to use it.

If you’re relying on a LUKS password only, it can be brute-forced. To protect against that you need a decently long password which is annoying to type every boot. A short TPM PIN sealed by SB protecting LUKS is both more convent and more secure.

Finally, if an attacker or malware gets root, FDE isn’t protecting you either.

Yeah this is an issue but not a big one. Most distro’s installation media don’t use shim so you have to disable SB during install anyway.

And installing the 2023 KEK and db certs can be done via firmware without much trouble or you can use sbctl in setup mode which I believe has both the 2011 and 2023 keys.

If you dual boot Windows you’ll want to update it to the new bootmgr signed with the 2023 keys and add the 2011 certs to dbx to protect against BlackLotus or let Windows do it via patches+regfixes.

Also know that any changes to PK, KEK, dB, or dbx will change the PCR 7 measurement so handle that accordingly if you use TPM unlock for FDE.

Nope. For Linux you’ll want asusctl, maybe supergfxctl, and possibly some kernel modules.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASUS_Linux

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/ASUS

Obligatory plug for G-Helper:

https://github.com/seerge/g-helper

It’s everything Armoury Crate should have been and not a drop more.

Most DNS queries are UDP.

I’d do a modified scream test and change old.domain to something like 1.2.3.4. Then run sudo netstat or ss with -tpn, grepping for 1.2.3.4.

Or something like grep -r old.domain /etc.

Yeah, that too.

While I’m not 100% certain it’s not just confusing perspective, it does appear that the slope rise is shorter than the run, suggesting that this is from the top of the stairs.

The back buttons didn’t work with Steam Input (and still don’t with the v1’s).

Yep, that would work fine for the first line of defense. Eventually, you can expand it to copy, replicate, or drive swap the onprem backups offsite somewhere (e.g., cloud, office, or family member) if you want to protect your data from site loss (e.g., house fire).

The only thing missing is a good backup.

If you are storing anything important – especially Immich and Vaultwarden data – you should have a good offsite protection strategy. And even the HASS config should be backed up with versioning because rebuilding from scratch could be painful once you get deep into it.

I’ll let others chime in on possible good backup options because I use Veeam and Azure, which really isn’t in the spirit of this community, and I’d be interested in good open source options myself.

Also, RAID (mirroring) is NOT a backup.

Lol Microsoft is not even close to a walled garden. This is just them removing the password manager feature that nobody used from their authenticator app.

This isn’t Microsoft’s announcement. They announced over a month ago. This also only affects bulk senders sending over 5,000 emails a day inbound to their Hotmail/Outlook.com service.

And if you can’t send DMARC-compliant emails in 2025, frankly you deserve to be blocked.