RIP

I'm using Gentoo with systemd and a customized kernel, and additionally I have the /usr partition LUKS encrypted. Because /usr is absolutely essential for systemd to function, I configured dracut to make a specially crafted initrd which activates the luks lvm and prompts for the password to decrypt and mount /usr on startup before systemd init tries to run.

About a year or two ago, some update to dracut or some other dependency (assumption) caused the dracut generated initrd's to kernel panic. After multiple days of troubleshooting, I discovered that just copying forward an older initrd in /boot and naming it to match the new kernel, e.g. initramfs-6.6.38-gentoo.img , allows the system to boot normally .

So, my Gentoo is booting a kernel 6.6.something with a ramdisk generated in the 5.9 kernel era. I am dreading the day when this behavior breaks and I can no longer update my kernel 😳

wAkE uP sHeEpLe

Not sure where you got the 25kb number from.

This tool is written in go and is a 7.8 MB compiled binary.

I don't know the name but I can tell you how sad they make me when they break and tear off and you have to use a lighter on the now extremely frayed end(s) of your shoelace for just a few seconds, and then pinch off the flame just lightly burning your fingies while molding the shoelace end into a cohesive black carcinogen.

Source: I am cheap

I don't think he knows about second gun, Pip

An obviously talented programmer is no longer working on a free project that very few people can meaningfully contribute to - that is a shame.

I can't even get myself to learn rust, let alone make a GPU driver while reverse engineering blackbox hardware.

This comic reminds me of my 14 year old niece expressing annoyance because an elderly person asked her if she knew how to get to the highway.

Retelling the story she said "Why are they talking to me? Just Google it"

I WAS IN THE POOL!

So if you want to use systemd-boot as the bootloader you have to (apparently) install the systemd-utils package. Or you can just use GRUB / efistub.

Edit: looks like groche beat me to it 😁

It's probably been 4 years since I last had to rebuild my Gentoo, but I would be very surprised if there weren't good OpenRC instructions. I built mine with systemd and Gentoo handbook instructions always felt like 'Are you sure you don't want to use OpenRC? Ok, here are the systemd steps I guess'

Force uninstalled glibc on my Gentoo, which basically broke every shell and binary on the system. Was able to repair in place because I

1. Had already compiled busybox statically
2. Still had a copy of the stage 3 tarball on / which I could use to 'restore' glibc libraries

Forwarded to my nieces and sister in laws with the message they can all expect steam machines for Christmas

Never actually tried LFS but I have done Gentoo from stage 1 (back when that was an option), so I'm going to use your statement as an indication I can skip LFS 😁

Wtf I can't unsee this shit

Reminds me of an IRC snippet from the now defunct bash.org site -

user1: I ATTACK YOU WITH YAWGMOTH'S SODOMITE. DO YOU BLOCK? Y/N

user2: n

Make that runtime interpreter weak

Yes

Those ring stands look like an Asus monitor I had for a while which I assumed had a VESA mount when I bought it on sale.... they, in fact, did not. The refresh rate was nice though so I kept it around a while

(migrant) Aliens vs prEdator 3: microscopic