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 Mar 31
Still fucks me up that the package is almost always called fwupd, but the command is fwupdmgr
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 threadnika
@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
Mar 31 at 9:53pmWeb
Show threadMaddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered Mar 31
@v_v Thanks, I'll see if I can dig further and get this working ^.^