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  • I just tried to distro-hop and found my BIOS had been locked with a password. Assuming I didn’t set a password that I subsequently forgot (and that isn’t one of the many I have memorized), I figured this might have something to do with the age of the laptop (I have a HP 4540s). If certificate expiration is already affecting people then this might be it.

    EDIT: I just forgot I set a password, and it took me 2 days to realize that I was stupid enough to have set the password that I used for everything when I was 12 years old.



  • As I understand it the TPM is for people who have physical access. It prevents them from cloning your disk.

    I think with an adequately long password (or an adequately resource-intensive encryption algorithm) you can secure your disk enough to prevent unauthorized access. But the TPM would prevent them from removing your hard-drive and shunting it into a super-computer (so all password attempts wouldn’t need to be on the crummy 10-year old laptop CPU) so a TPM + password is more secure.










  • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAnother help me choose a distro
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    I don’t recommend Bazzite. I’m far from an expert (I’ve only used Mint), but I see a lot of people recommending Bazzite. You should definitely test on Bazzite, but it’s immutable and so that’ll probably cause a lot of issues. I’d recommend strongly against Bazzite for gamedev.

    I think basically any major distro will work (Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Arch). You’ll probably need to run the software in bottles, so if it supports bottles then it should work for your needs. Only go with Arch if you’re willing to sign up for some extra work.

    Be sure to make backups. That way it won’t matter if you brick your OS.

    EDIT: It supports Linux, I was on the wrong page. It explicitly supports Red Hat (Fedora) and Rocky Linux, OpenSUSE is similar to them, so go with one of those three I guess.

    EDIT 2: They recommend Ubuntu. Test on Ubuntu and Rocky. I’d go with Rocky just because I hate Ubuntu (on an emotional level, I don’t think they’re evil or anything).



  • Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.

    I’m not worried too much about screen-capture. I’m worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.