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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • Most of the recent(ish) updates are vulnerability fixes (after all, the platform is over eight years old now), and they’ve removed various intermediate versions already or there’d be even more.

    This board has a dual BIOS, the integrated flashing utility by default only flashes the main BIOS, and you have to enable the option to flash the backup explicitly. Never had to use the backup, afaik it activates automatically if booting the main BIOS fails several times.

    My ASUS “only” has a recovery function (flash BIOS from USB stick automatically if bootup fails) and no warning that I could find.






  • People had throwed shit at it because of their own specific issues and its “slow” development pace without realizing it’s a titanic endeavour

    I think most realize that it is a titanic endeavour and know that it might take years until their issues are solved, so they get angry when people are like “works for me, so everyone should use it now”. I’ve tried Wayland twice, each time it was deemed “ready” by someone, and each time something obvious was broken. x.org works and does what I want, so I’ll continue using that.







  • Make sure to disable Windows hybrid sleep. If your system isn’t shutdown properly and you access the Windows partition from another system that can destroy data.

    If you just want to keep the data on the Windows partition and usually don’t need to run Windows, I’d remove the Windows drive and keep it somewhere safe, and get another SSD for Linux. That way, the two systems are completely separate and can do nothing to each other.

    Swap is mostly a crutch for too little RAM, if the system doesn’t have enough the best solution would be an upgrade. If that’s not possible, consider zram-swap, or if you have to, swap to an SSD (that will reduce its lifespan, though maybe not in a relevant manner). If you swap to an old HDD you won’t have much fun using the system.