Though they should be able to do that with manually decrypted drives as well, if they can access the RAM, right?

Happens all the time when I learn new words. Suddenly that word is everywhere and it never occurred to me that I didn’t know its meaning.

I will probably see Baader-Meinhof pop up all over the place in the coming days.

This looks similar to the tutorial I used on my Debian server. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1269981/unattended-headless-ubuntu-server-with-disk-encryption-how-to-set-it-up

At least TPM is supposed to be tamper proof. So as long as you don’t login automatically your data should be secure.

It’s also useful to autodecrypt it temporarily to set up more secure decryption later. OEM installs often do this. I did it on my Steam Deck while looking for a way to enter a passphrase without a keyboard.

Just putting the key file somewhere does nothing. It has to be in a spot that is not encrypted and the kernel has to know where it is. Putting it on /boot or /boot/efi is one way. Putting it in the initrd is another.

Of course, having the key out in the open defeats the purpose of encrypting the drive in the first place. Sealing it in TPM would be one solution. But still you have to tell the kernel where to find it.

Personally my server has a ssh server in the initrd and allows me to unlock it remotely that way. I think it uses dropbear.

There should be several tutorials for every way. No idea if there are Fedora specific ways to follow.

I had it running for image generation. As far as I recall it was slow and buggy so I didn’t do more with it.

Did that for a home server of mine after the CPU fan broke. Kept an eye on the temperature for a while and it works great. Now I only need to get rid of the PSU to make it really silent.

Dang, I completely missed that. Time to go to sleep. Good night!

I think flathub pretty much does this.

It is definitely not a fun game.

Whatever works best for you. No distro is fundamentally better suited for gaming than others.

I saw what you did there, birch.

Ah, the good old days of sshing into a family member’s computer and trolling them by constantly opening and closing the drive.

At that point I’d just try to build something myself out of wood.

Everything is easier in PHP!

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 * This increments $i
 * 
 * @param int $i The number to increment.
 *
 * @return int The incremented number.
 */
function increment(int $i) {
  $factor = 1;
  $adjustment = 0;
  if ($i < 0) {
    $factor *= -1;
    $adjustment = increment(increment($adjustment));
  }
  $i *= $factor;
  $a = array_fill(1, $i, 'not_i');
  if ($i === 0) {
    array_push($a, 'not_i');
  }
  array_push($a, $i);
  return array_search($i, $a, true) * $factor + $adjustment;
}

Get the free trial and cancel after you got the games. It gives you codes for GOG so you don’t have to link your accounts or anything.

The Steam Deck struggles with games like Cities Skylines because it only has 16 GB RAM. More RAM has never been a bad thing. Especially if you want to future proof your device.

Reminds me of the time a jet’s computer kept crashing on landing approach to the Dead Sea because it’s below sea level and the computer couldn’t handle negative altitudes.

Thanks, that sounds right up my alley.

Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have noticeably lowered my IQ. It’s a terrible feeling to be more stupid and know that I normally could do better.

So give me intelligence every day. Physical attractiveness can only go so far.