how do i even explain to lucifer when i die that, the reason i committed grave environmental sins and have like 6 meters of receipt paper with GRUB instructions on them is that GRUB sends the whole line to the serial port and the receipt printer would print the whole line despite a one character update

@kuriko how else would I keep receipts of my boot logs for archival

@kuriko some noises let you change the mapping of physical ports to "COMx". But very funny.

@kuriko ooo, alpine linux.

@kuriko i remember there is a way to do that. I had to disable tty1 because if i logged out, sddm would nit start and found something on the net that disabling it would help.

@kuriko perfect.

@kuriko You remind me of an issue I had with a customer’s hardware design choices.
It wasn’t the only questionable choice they made, but the specific one I’m thinking of is that they re-used the serial primary serial port (i.e. boot loader and kernel output) to connect to external devices. Which meant that we had to turn off all output on the boot loader and kernel so we wouldn’t confuse those devices on every reboot, making debugging that much harder, despite the actual chip having spare serial ports. So it would have been trivial to expose the first serial port on the PCB for debugging, but … they didn’t.