I did this. Was a ThinkPad Linuxer for years and now I just use an M1 for sysadmin/programming/web/vids. Quite happy to just use Linux on my servers these days. MacOS does the job nicely on laptop. I suppose it depends on how FOSS you want to be.

Nice. Thanks 👍

Interesting. I’ve been using “.home.arpa” for a while now, since that’s one of the other often used ways.

Just use a $5 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC?

Demagogarule

Isn’t it quite common to have /boot on an unencrypted partition?

Wow. I’ve been using dd for years and I’d consider myself on the more experienced end of the Linux user base. I’ll use cp from now on. Great link.

Yeah. I’ve no need to change to anything else. pf/OPNsense 4life.

How would the update affect stuff like a GoCryptFS volume which I mount and use periodically but not all the time? Would those files be processed much faster than previously?

That’s how I’ve got mine set up, with OPNsense.

I’ve been using it a few years and I only know about half the stuff that pfSense/OPNsense can do. So I would advise newbies to just make small changes at a time because there’s a whole lot of stuff you can change. It’s worth learning, though. I wouldn’t use anything else for my main firewall/router nowadays.

PfSense and OPNsense are both killer router “out of the box” distros built on BSD. I say this as a Linux user, with little interest in running BSD for my applications, but… Respect to BSD. ✊

ZFS kicks arse. It’s worth learning enough to get a basic array going, with a couple of datasets and encryption. Once you get acquainted with that, you’ll be using it for years to come.

It happens in the UK too.

And the ASRock Deskmini range. I’m currently using one with an older Kaby Lake i7 as my Docker host.

You could (carefully) run a dd command to blast the partition data off the drive, in Linux or any Unix based system.

Let’s say your drive was recognised as /dev/sdc when you plugged it in.

First, make sure it’s unmounted:

1. sudo umount /dev/sdc

Then blast a gigabyte of zeros over the partition information: 2. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1G count=1

The partition information is usually stored on the very first couple of megabytes on the drive, so blasting a gig’s worth of zeros linearly onto it should make it show up as an empty device next time you unplug and plug it in.