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Literally why I keep saying hardware-based security is pointless; just as you can flash a bad ROM onto your mothboard, so you can clear one, which translates to hardware locks. Now a sane manufacturer would not start panicking and leave this alone. But they won't. Nah, perfect excuse to add some...

Would imagine so.

@captain-sensible I would imagine that perl, awk, python, ruby, etc. are all allowed within the context of what can be run as a shell script or embedded in one. I mean bash is executed within a "shell script", as are several languages/executables. I think the best way to look at it is: "Will...

Glad it works! You can mark the thread [Solved].

Make & model of laptop? Did you try a LiveCD of another OS? Is the issue the same? Try quitting X or switching to another tty (Ctrl + Alt + F5) and then testing in the comand line and with Nano (run nano and type stuff in the editor and use Ctrl+o to save and Ctrl+x to exit). Try to run xev...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but.. I made a discussion/chat thread here. Guys, let's please use that for discussion. If you follow the OP there, it's pretty easy to keep everything in context and cohesive. David, if you want to move these last few posts in there (this one, too -- or just...

This pertains to this thread by the same name. Because this forum tends to get lost in digressions -- and full disclosure: I'm one of the biggest offenders -- I thought I'd make a space for meta chat since, as @KGIII rightfully instructed in his thread: Now what I suggest is: If you have a...

Yes, that's exactly what @Lord Boltar means: to manually point GRUB to where the installation should have. The issue may be that you have two devices wiith efi partitions, but only one of them has a valid OS (which explains a lot). Running the commands he suggested will fix that, but I suggest...

Question: Arch or Manjaro? Answer: Arch. Reason: Every non-pure Arch spin I have tried has broken eventually. EndeavourOS was the most stable, but I eventually ran into circular upgrade/downgrade dependency hell. Arch already can be a pain, but when someone other than you preconfigured it...

Set your BIOS back to UEFI boot. Boot from the liveCD. Install efibootmgr if it's not installed (everything you install in the LiveCD session is in RAMFS, it won't touch your machine) Run the following as root/superuser (you are already, this is for reference for anyone not doing this live)...

Some distros can run from an image or local directory, like TinyCore. So you can, in that sense, install while still live. Problem is that, as @f33dm3bits points out, it's not safe witjout encryption (encrypt your sensitive data, too, btw). Chrooting into a dir structure (or mounted image) is...

Some additional info would be useful: - Laptop or desktop. I'd wager based on you post that it's a laptop -- ACPI on laptops is finnicky -- but it's still best to be clear. - Basic hardware info. Some devices have issues waking (RL example: my controller needed manually waking until about...

Seriously... I think you need to read people's posts -- no matter how pedantic they are (and yes, I admit that I am) -- properly, before making assumptions (lol, little joke). Seriously, you should take time to read a post properly before you just have a knee-jerk response and type it, othewise...

I wasn't thinking earlier (still getting post-Covid brainfog). I was confusing server/client exports/fstab options, sorry. I updated my answer before you replied. Anyway, you'd have to make the changes to /etc/exports on the server as per my update and then run exportfs on said server. Then...

Does anyone else here get a spinal chill? I know linking to images, be it for whatever purpose (including emoji/emojies <-- what's the plural?) is covered by the ToS as it's "content", but I really think it'd be a good idea to establish some ground rules. I don't just mean size, that can be...