Bernie @[email protected]

So... what's #ArchLinux's "official" tool to get a graphical boot with a nice password prompt for luks devices?

And what's #Manjaro using?

I'm tired of seeing a mostly empty black screen when booting #ArchLinux, but Plymouth is in AUR, and I don't want to depend on AUR for something as critical as, you know, booting the system!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth

Perhaps @torproject can 🙂

The #Tor network needs some form of distributed consensus, but it's not a blockchain.

Could someone please ELI5 how it works, and particularly how it avoids being subverted by a single actor who owns many IPs?

https://consensus-health.torproject.org/

Looks like traffic on the #Tor network has been growing...

https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2010-05-17&end=2022-08-15

Also many thanks to the #Fedora packager

I just tried the #System76 Keyboard Configurator on my Lemur Pro, and it's fantastic.

It stores the customized config at the firmware level, so it works with any operating system, and even in GRUB.

Thank you, @system76

Desktop Environments preferred by various distributions, over time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/wmkxqy/desktop_environments_preferred_by_various/
#KDE #GNOME #Xfce

I miss かき氷 (kakigori) so much 🤤
#japan

Ohh, thank you, #TokyoDemoFest! 🥲

It's a vacuum-sealed T-shirt!

I just received a weird package...

If you have to compile C++ code, do it on a desktop with lots of fast cores. Keep in mind that modern Intel CPUs come with two kinds of cores: P (performance) and E (efficient, but slower).

My #System76 Lemur Pro has 10 cores, but only two of them are P 😅

The older Thinkpad X1 had a 10th generation Intel CPU with 6 cores (12 threads), but they're evidently much slower, at least when compiling LLVM.

#benchmarks

Unsurprisingly, the desktop outperformed both my lightweight laptops by a good measure.

Meanwhile, my benchmark results are ready to analyze:
https://tinyurl.com/lemp11-vs-x1g7

It's a compute benchmark between 3 Linux machines:

#System76 lemp11
Lemur Pro i7-1255U
Pop!_OS 22.04

Giskard, my old laptop
Thinkpad X1G7 i7-10710U
Fedora 36

Goreboot, a mid-end desktop
MSI Z690-A DDR5 i7-12700F
Radeon RX Vega 64
Arch Linux, btw