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phew! good thing I still have a few 386sx AMI BIOS boards handy. no ones shopping around zero days on those anymore, right?

termux is absolutely fantastic. if you like a nice, clean CLI then run (don’t walk) to f-droid and install.

understood. tinycore is a live installable distro, so you can still test it on bare metal.

pick the GUI flavor and kick the tires for a while.

the repos are browsable inside the package manager - I would imagine they are browsable outside as well, but I have never had cause to do so.

honestly, give tinycore a shot. fire it up in a VM and take a look around - it really is an amazingly useful distro.

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“oh hell. someone is trying to be more evil than us! gotta fix that.” - google, definately.

if the install had finished and the installer was simply reading the flash drive to clean itself up, unmount filesystems and reboot, then chances are you are fine. However, as a personal rule I never allow an installation to go into production if there were any unexpected anomalies during installation. its just not worth the risk.

and I realised I was seeing lemmy literally come alive!

thats a rather soul stirring realization put to words. :-)

well, perhaps. but there are a plethora of escape routes if/when it gets too bad for them.

hey, windows users… your OS actively hates you!

that is all.

I understand caution when approaching things like secure boot - it can absolutely be abused by monopolies. however… barring inherent or implementation flaws and ensuring that signing keys are under user control it conceptually (and practically) allows for some useful things.

but she will be optimised for your hardware!

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would run in an emulator or bare metal boot from separate media.

agreed. EXT4 for system, XFS for everything else (mostly large VM image files). when XFS is properly configured for the underlying drive array geometry, its a nearly perfect streamlined FS.

ZFS hits memory hard and sometimes can bring out latent deficiencies in that hardware. on non-optimal hardware its a bit of a hardware torture test in its own right.

having said that, EXT4 and XFS are wonderful unless you need zfs/btrfs.

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classic.

undoubtedly this is humanity’s most profound meme to date.

bravo!

well, something there is curving space and time. it must be absolutely MASSIVE!

if you are self hosting and enjoy over-engineering systems… VLANS, ACLs between subnets and IDS/IPS should be part of.your thinking. separate things into zones of vulnerability / least-privilege and maintain that separation with an iron fist. this is a great rabbit hole to fall down if you have the time. however, given a skilled adversary with enough time and money, any network can be infiltrated eventually. the idea is to try to minimize the exposure when it happens.

if the above is not a part of your daily thinking, then don’t worry about it too much. use a production OS like Debian stable, don’t expose ports to the public internet and only allow systems that should initiate communication to the internet to actually do so (preferably only on their well known protocol ports - if possible).