Notices by muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social), page 26

@ConfusedNyan

Using/fixing them is already giving me enough of a nightmare 😆

@proto

YES! THAT F'ING ONE!

I hate ribbon cable connectors!

Sorry, just needed to vent 😂

@loke

Do tell, which error? Should probably send David an email as well, so he can update the post.

This is a fantastic read if you're working with shell scripts:

Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it Correctly (and how not to):

https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

@pj

I'd be curious to read more about that, as my brain can't even begin to fathom how such a system could possibly ever function!

@smeg

I believe it's more about the longevity of your device than speed improvements.

Another difficult decision to make this time around... do I even still bother to install an additional legacy boot loader alongside the EFI partition, or will I simply go UEFI only?

Leaning towards the latter.

Talking about flash drives... how are your experiences with F2FS so far?

@jan_j

I'd say keep it simple and go with ext4, but I'm kinda tempted to check out F2FS this time around. Still reading up on it.

@chichichi

I'm writing and recording it as I'll go along with my own install. Will probably post it this weekend.

@Anoobispepega

I could finally backup the entire internet!

I'll let SanDisk know I'm a little less impressed by their products, now 😂

@erikstl

Never hesitate to ask! 😊

@Ludonaut

I guess that depends on how you tend to "casually" fuck it up. What's the typical scenario you're thinking of here?

@erikstl

I'm planning to install a fully encrypted Arch Linux operating system on a USB flash drive.

That would allow me to take my entire desktop & work environment with me on my key-chain, ready to be plugged into any available PC.

Naturally you shouldn't trust random machines, so you have to be a bit cautious and make sure your entire Internet traffic also gets encrypted.

Sorry if I made it sound a little too cryptic 😆

Time to setup a portable, encrypted Arch install on that USB drive, which routes everything over a VPN.

I'll sync it with my desktop and have a truly machine-independent development environment on my keychain.

Anyone interested in a tutorial?

Time to setup a portable, encrypted Arch install on that USB drive, which routes everything over a VPN.

I'll sync it with my desktop and have a truly machine-independent development environment on my keychain.

@sexybenfranklin

~$35

@sexybenfranklin

If that's the case, it's the cheapest 256GB microSD I've ever seen.

You may still be right though. At least from a technical perspective.

There has to be a tiny black hole at work in the center of this thing :D

256GB... and barely sticks out of the USB port.