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.
Just did my first successful UEFI/firmware update with fwupd and fwupd-efi!
...after setting some non-default USE flags, of course!
I've successfully used fwupd to update firmwares before, but never on a system I've basically built from damn near scratch (Arch aside)
Still fucks me up that the package is almost always called fwupd, but the command is fwupdmgr
This Gentoo install wanted to get rid of linux-firmware and intel-microcode upon running
emerge --ask --depclean
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.
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.
I'm tempted to force shutdown, but if it's truly working on the filesystem, I probably shouldn't.
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.
Maddy 🏳️⚧️ - ADHD-powered 
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