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   rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 17:32:34 JST rixx

   prompted by some honestly hilarious behaviour of my laptop today:

   remember how some people have different systems they can boot into when entering different encryption passwords (aka the real one and the plausible deniability one)?

   do that, but make the decoy one as fucked up as possible. symlink stupid shit. remove /dev/null. fuck around with sudo so it only works 15% of the time

   “of course, sir, here’s my laptop. I use it to learn Linux! I think I’ve set it up slightly wrong, but it works!”

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     rixx (rixx@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 17:33:07 JST rixx

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     my chronicles today:

     boot 1: pc starts, looks and sounds fine, I start browsing. after a minute, Firefox hangs. kill -9 does nothing. I find out that my sudo password does not work (?!)
     I reboot. after 8 minutes of watching systemd try to shut down the system bit by bit, I finally hard-reset

     boot 2: sudo works. network doesn’t. that is, the manager comes up, doesn’t complain, everything looks good, it just refuses to connect to wifi

     boot 3: everything seems to be working. very suspicious