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My Linux Odyssey (Or how difficult it is to put on a hat)
  • Just a quick thought. These days you can create a special partition in the first part of your drive and just boot from it. No grub, no config really. You might want to take a look at EFI and an EFI system partition perhaps?

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    I am a victim of the network effect who wishes to degoogle. What do I do?
  • One idea is perhaps to have more than one device? A tablet at home could be used in some scenarios, the rooted phone for some others. Maybe you have an old device laying around?

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    Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?
  • I should say as well, postgres, mariadb and memcached all support riscv, you just got to build it yourself. I have found the riscv64 ubuntu docker images useful as well to use as a base - for example the riscv64/ubuntu one.

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    Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor?
  • I do! Since a while I selfhost with my risc-v Unmatched board. There are prebuilt Ubuntu Server images available. Its mainly for software which you have the source code for, and are willing to build from source. I've made use of docker buildx for cross cmpilation a fair bit as well. Go and Rust has good support. A good start can be to check out the riscv-bringup repo from carlosedp. Its definitely early days though, you need to be pretty motivated. Debian support is scheduled for next year AFAIK.

    So, what do I actually use it for? nginx + tailscale so far

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    [Coreboot] Can I coreboot my laptop? Acer Aspire A515-47
  • In case you haven't seen it already - 3mdeb shared some info on the state of things during last FOSDEM. If I'm not mistaken they also did an update the year before too.

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023

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    [Coreboot] Can I coreboot my laptop? Acer Aspire A515-47
  • I know of exactly 1 AMD corebooot laptop. Starlabs Starfighter.

    For coreboot you're basically on Intel. As others mentioned, look up dasharo. They have added support for two modern MSI motherboards and Intel cpu models.

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