Jimmie Lightner

Technology, Truth, and Common Sense

Tag: Arch Linux

  • mkinitcpio 42 breaks LUKS auto-unlock using crypttab.initramfs

    Updated the Dell XPS 15 this morning using the latest Linux 7.2.6 and mkinitcpio 42 only to be repeatedly greeted by the LUKS unlock prompt. After some quick Kagi searching, I noted this little nugget in the release notes: If you’re using crypttab.initramfs take heed! Your shit’s gonna break! (Mine did!) No amount of re-enrolling…

  • My Problem with OpenClaw

    Honestly at this point I’m about done with OpenClaw and their misguided Doctor nonsense. Doctor warnings are probably great for the beginner who doesn’t understand the ramifications of the runtime choices being made. I’ve investigated nearly every setting, read the docs front to back, and explicitly hand-chosen and curated the configuration of the setup I’m…

  • Cleaning Arch Linux

    Chris Titus wrote an article (and did a video!) about cleaning Arch Linux. I wanted to add a bit more that I find helpful – something that he didn’t cover: Uninstalling UNUSED dependencies! He covered cleaning the pacman cache, pruning timeshifts, checking usage and several other things, but not removing orphaned dependencies. Here’s a great…

  • Upgrading from AMD Ryzen 9 7950x to 9950X3D

    The patient, as viewed under the operating room lights… If you’re interested in my old CPU, it’s for sale here: https://columbus.craigslist.org/sop/d/columbus-amd-ryzen-processor/7834796843.html

  • 100 gigabit to the Desktop

    Truly overkill for ANY purpose. But still fun as hell. 😀

  • qemu 9.1.1-1 / virt-manager Audio Shenanigans

    The upgrade of qemu packages from 9.1.0-2 to 9.1.1-1 broke the audio output of my Windoze 11 VM that I typically work from. Arch Linux is a rolling release, so it’s not as easy to just specify the version of a package you want to install using any of the normal commands with Pacman –…

  • Updating Dell XPS 15 9530 Firmware on Linux

    Today marks the first time I’ve updated the BIOS in my Laptop since I bought it. When I initially powered it up, Windows 11 was “installed” (more like present, it took almost 2 hours for it to fully update itself before it was usable) so I used that to update the BIOS and various firmware…

  • See you around, Apple

    I wrote a blog post a short while back about why I loved Linux. I waxed nostalgic for a while about my history with the OS and how it impacted my life. In the same post, I talked about my then-current setup utilizing a MacBook Pro, but I managed to get a bit off track…

  • Install and trust DoD Certificates on Arch Linux

    Continuing our journey to install and configure DoD Certificates on various platforms – this time I submit for your reading pleasure: Arch Linux! This one is relatively easy. Like other platforms, trusted roots can live in a few places on Arch (Personal NSS or System stores, as well as some various Apps that have their…

  • Writing systemd User Timers

    Why am I writing this? I omitted installing the cron package on my Linux box since systemd provides a timers function. Who needs two packages to do one thing? Heh… for a moment I thought maybe I do because some of the documentation out there is a little confusing. Or I’m just dumb. Or both.…