Mastodawn

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.

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - 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!

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - 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)

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered

Mar 31

Still fucks me up that the package is almost always called fwupd, but the command is fwupdmgr

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Lukyan

@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.