Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MsDropbear42</span></a></span> <em>Weeeeeeeeell</em>, now i've made time to investigate what ails poor lil ol' ONT, & it seems pretty terminal [<em>boom, tish</em>]. The failure to finish booting occurred after i did a system update after not doing so for several months. OS was <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SparkyLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SparkyLinux</span></a> Testing / semi-rolling. Afaict, whatever caused the damage did a pretty good job:</p><ul><li>the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bootloader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bootloader</span></a> had vaporised</li><li>the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LUKS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LUKS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> seems to have been damaged [even booting from a Live usb stick couldn't unlock the drive, my LUKS pswd being rejected despite absolutely certainly being correct]; it accepts my LUKS password during boot, then says "Slot 0 opened", then... just sits there, evermore. Sigh. </li></ul><p>I considered trying to repair the bootloader via a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/chroot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chroot</span></a>, but even if that succeeded i frankly had little appetite to then do battle with a sulky LUKS. This pc is a very old clunker, spinning rust HDDs only, merely 8 GB RAM, i7 though old model, & i'd repurposed it to be my lounge-room media pc several months ago without bothering to change anything about its extant OS... & tbh Sparky had been wearing a bit thin on me anyway for a coupla months in this role. </p><p>So i decided not to bother attempting repairs, & instead make a clean break with an alternative distro that i feel should be just about ideal for this use as a media pc, whose only function is to run a browser, & my VPN app, for my nightly movies & shows streaming. As such, i really just don't wanna be arsed with running updates on it often, & generally mollycoddling it like i do with my <em>real</em> pooter [<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchLinux</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a>]... i just want it to live happily in the darkness of my timber cabinet, asking little of me re upkeep, & just purring away. </p><p>Thus, it now has <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LMDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LMDE</span></a> 6. Gotta hand it to ol' Clem & Co; they've done a really nice job with it. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ONT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ONT</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PistonBroke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PistonBroke</span></a></p>