Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
In our team meeting, I brought up how the computer policy of requiring all storage to be encrypted with BitLocker, I wouldn't be able to easily throw something together, say if I needed to create a boot drive for troubleshooting or re-imaging something.

So I was given the go-ahead to turn one of the many decommissioned old computers into a spare, independent of the domain and internal infrastructure, for testing and troubleshooting stuff.

I'm installing Gentoo. ​​
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
Just did my first successful UEFI/firmware update with fwupd and fwupd-efi!

...after setting some non-default USE flags, of course! ​​
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
I've successfully used fwupd to update firmwares before, but never on a system I've basically built from damn near scratch (Arch aside)
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered 
Still fucks me up that the package is almost always called fwupd, but the command is fwupdmgr
Mar 31 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
This Gentoo install wanted to get rid of linux-firmware and intel-microcode upon running emerge --ask --depclean ​​
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
Though I don't feel like I completely set it up correctly, I got Plymouth working, showing off Gentoo's neat-o boot theme!

I do really like watching the lines of text scroll by as a system boots though. Speaking of, I need to find out how to bring back the penguins per core that used to show as Linux would boot up.
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
Now the system is stuck on the boot animation with the progress bar increasing slowly, which looks cool, but it appears to be stuck on "checking local filesystems".


...not sure if it's actually taking forever to do so, or if something broke. ​​
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
I'm tempted to force shutdown, but if it's truly working on the filesystem, I probably shouldn't.
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
The progress bar didn't seem to move any further, though the theme's animation was still going. I forced a shutdown, restarted, edited the quiet splash out of the grub cmdline for this boot, just so I could watch the progress a little more closely, aaaaand

It ran a quick filesystem cleanup and booted almost immediately.

I rebooted and let it go as-is, it showed the boot animation, and once again booted very quickly.

I think it just had a slight brain freeze.
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
Because I was unfamiliar with the disk's history (it was pulled from a decommissioned machine), I checked it with GSmartControl earlier, and it had less than 1300 hours on it, and was showing good health despite being an older 256GB M.2 SATA SSD. I was expecting that thing to be spent.

Which further leads me to think this was just a one-off hiccup.
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
I'm not sure if it's the loads of scrolling text, or the additional configuration I sometimes have to do to remove or add specific features to software, but there's just something about the Gentoo experience that is so much more stimulating and exciting to me than the average experience of:
-install system
-install pre-built binary packages (boring)
-use system

Anyway, both the Autism and ADHD are enjoying themselves. I'm just along for the ride at this point lmao
Show threadBearmineMar 31

@maddy COMPILE ALL THE THINGS!!!

I’ve been known to watch the Linux kernel compile while testing new laptops.

Show threadnikaMar 31
@maddy
>I need to find out how to bring back the penguins per core
CONFIG_LOGO=y, think it conflicts with modeset though, couldn't get it to work on my box
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
@v_v Thanks, I'll see if I can dig further and get this working ^.^
Show threadLukyanMar 31

@maddy Same, I just search for the command in my history as it's one of four or five entries with an `update` subcommand. (It works mostly only on a computer with its vendor supplying the open source firmware to LVFS.)

I think the name is justified from a developer's point of view as it also has a daemon.