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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • on my laptop I have tpm to decrypt my drive and I've also enabled secure boot and set a bios password, so if someone steals my laptop it's basically bricked,

    secure boots there to prevent any potential tampering if someone were to take the drive out then put it back in

    I feel this setup is secure enough for me, if you've got some nation state after you, or some guy with a wrench theres probably nothing you can do


  • arch is super stable ( for the most part ) at with the arch install script it's easier than ever to install, endeavouros is a gui installer but leaves you with basically an arch system

    ive been running arch on my desktop and laptop for years and the only issue I had was that fucked up grub change that somehow got thru





  • there's two possibilities for this wifi blocking:

    1. it's setup to only allow whitelisted devices, in this case you're fucked, only option is to pretend to be some whitelisted device
    2. it's a blacklist, in this case changing your mac address will make you appear to be a new device, anyone monitoring the device list could see the unknown device appear


  • you'd need to set the environment variables, that exec command is trying to run a program named GDK_SCALE, instead it should be like Exec=/usr/bin/env GDK_SCALE...

    the two steam options are to choose between using the systems provided libraries and the ones that ship with steam, I recommend using the steam runtime rather than native