Chaotic noodle

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Okay, thanks!

Yeah, I don’t really need to backup the system, except for a list of installed software, but I guess that’s all included somewhere in ~/.local or whatever, since it’s flatpak homebrew and steam.

Did anything specific break?
I’ll look into vorta, thanks!

On my NixOS and Arch machines I used ZFS snapshots for backups. That’s why I specifically asked for Aurora / Bazzite users.

Question for all Bazzite/Aurora users: what do you use to make backups of your machine?

I’m using Pikabackup to make backups of /home, but I’m not sure if there’s a better way?

yum install -y mint-choc # 😋

I’ve had it at the 27th for a few years in my calendar now, but I have no idea why, lol.

Apparently the official birthday should be August 25th, so maybe I mixed those up?

That look delicious, tysm!

Warning: useless use of cat

AGPL 😎

Edit: this looks pretty slick, I’ll keep it in mind next time I need a cache

“Capitalism creates innovation!”
The innovation:

Well yes, assuming that:

1. you trust the hardware manufacturer
2. you can install your own keys (i.e. not locked by vendor)
3. you secure your bios with a secure password
4. you disable usb / network boot

With this you can make your laptop very tamper resistant. It will be basically impossible to tamper with the bootloader while the laptop is off. (e.g install keylogger to get disk-encryption password).

What they can do, is wipe the bios, which will remove your custom keys and will not boot your computer with secure boot enabled.

Something like a supply-side attack is still possible however. (e.g. tricking you into installing a malicious bootloader while the PC is booted)

Always use security in multiple layers, and to think about what you are securing yourself from.

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There’s several pages on the arch wiki that should help:

Security - Screen lockers

Session Lock, specifically the xorg/wayland triggers and units sections

This sounds like a very specific question, what problem are you really trying to solve?

Logout before suspend/hibernate, or something else?

To expand a little on @Laser ‘s point 2:

In bash (and other programming languages) # is used at the start of the line to notate comments.

When writing percentages, you write the symbol after the number, e.g. 50%

That’s how I keep them apart, lol

Theres a section in the bash manual with these and a whole bunch of more expansion tricks.

One I find useful is

echo "${myvar@A}"

If you want to hear someone talk about penetration testing (heh) these things:

DEF CON 27: Adventures in smart buttplug penetration testing (semi-NSFW obviously)

You’re good. I know one of these is definitely real, but the other one is plausible enough to make me think both are real