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  • This would -at least as far as I understand it- limit your swap’s functionality for hibernation etc. Because there your swap needs to be available early. You can still do it in theory, but the key file then would need to be included in you initrams, which kind of defeats the purpose.

    There is however a much more easier option: either use LVM on luks (so the volume is decrypted with the password and then contains both, root and swap) or just use the same password for root and swap while switching over to the systemd hooks (as those encryption hooks try unlokcing everything with the first provided password by default, and only ask for additional password if this fails).

    EDIT: Seeing that you crossposted this from an archlinux-specific community: You can find the guide here. It’s for using a fully enrcypted system with grub as bootloader, but the details (in 8.3 and 8.4) are true for all boot methods. Replace the busybox hooks with their systemd equivalents (in minitcpio.conf for archlinux but again this isn’t limited to that init system), then add “rd.luks.name=<your swap’s uuid=swap” to your kernel parameters and also replace the “cryptdevice=UUID=<your root’s uuid>:root” that should already be there for an encrypted system (that’s the syntax for the busybox hook) with “rd.luks.name=<your root’s uuid>=root”. On startup you will be asked for your password as usual, but then both root and swap will be decrypted with it (PS: the sd-encrypt hook only tries this once… so if you screw up and misstype your password on the first try, you will then have to type it again two times, once for root, once for swap…)



  • Those usage stats are a fantasy build by nicely asking your browser about your pc’s details. But the answer is complete fiction. And one people often intentionally set to display Windows because idiotic corporate-created webpages will refuse to work properly otherwise.

    (I haven’t touched Windows in many years and still I would end up in those stats as a Windows user (and Chrome which is also wrong)…)

    It’s basically all just marketing bullshit.




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    “One of the primary arguments for manually installing and configuring your system is that it will teach you a lot about linux and operating systems in general. While there is a small grain of truth to this, it’s incredibly misleading. […] A significant drawback of the “manual means advanced” slogan is that it creates a narrative that is precisely the opposite of the truth. Computing is about automation, and advanced users are those who write software or use existing software to make their computing lives more painless.”

    Sure… and how exactly is one aquiring the “expertise to automate” when they never actually did it manually to know what to automate?


  • Ooops@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSub Sampling
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    [4] Broman, Chad 2015 Why is Valentine’s Day so Important? A Time Analysis of Tiffany’s Relationship Expectations :: Journal of Psychological Machine Learning

    [5] Broman, Chad 2016 A Play by Play Analysis of Purchasing a Luxury Speedboat during an out of Wedlock Pregnancy Scare :: Journal of Psychological Machine Learning

    [6] Broman, Chad 2016 The Mood Metric Equivalent Measurement: How to Get Away with a 150$ Bar Tab :: Journal of Psychological Machine Learning

    [7] Broman, Chad 2021 A Time Series Analysis of My Girlfriend’s Mood Swings :: Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology