Yes but two things, it adds to the flavour of the site, not just about work. Also can explain why we do things or need different things, which needs to be taken into account.
My step son is a lefty but no one else in her family.
I am left footed which is why i cannot dance, and left eye works but right no.
Another statistic, left handed people are supposed to have more mathematical ability.
It is not all negative.
My sinistral brother insists that the good looks were held back until the right-handed kids were through the queue. He then stepped in and got a double portion.
One of my brothers is left-handed. When he was being taught to write in school the teacher told my mom he would need a typewriter. They forced him to write right-handed. Eventually he had very good penmanship right-handed.
He bats left and throws left and was an all-state catcher on a baseball team. Super unusual to the point of almost unique!
He was also a starter on a state tournament bound basketball team. Dribbled and shot left-handed. Of course, he had to dribble with both hands as needed, but he shot left-handed.
We only had right-handed golf clubs when he was learning to golf so that’s how he learned. A few years later my grandpa got him some left-handed clubs but he never used them. He’s probably a few strokes better than me and regularly golfed under par in his prime. All right-handed even though he is left-handed.
My left handed brother in Melbourne - is a keen cricketer - left handed bowler - I think around 2014 or so - he made the front page of Cricketing Victoria for a state record something like 9 wickets in 6 overs… i.e. he bowled out 9 batsmen in 6 overs… there’s six bowls per over - so 9 bowled out in 36 bowls…
All three of us boys were lefties - we all bowled / threw a ball left handed. But we all batted right handed (in cricket and / or softball - but boys don’t play softball or baseball after primary school in most places downunder).
I use scissors in my right hand… I spread butter or marg (or vegemite!) on bread with my right hand…
I can use a drill with either hand equally well, same for a hammer or a spanner or a screwdriver…
When I was a teenager - I played table tennis for a whole semester for sport at high school and I batted left handed… Didn’t really play again till my late 20’s or early 30’s and I was right handed for table tennis!
I play billiards left handed…
Also - sorry for hijacking this thread - it wasn’t intentional.
My brother is a good bowler too, but the kind where you roll a ball and knock down pins. As far as I know he only bowls left-handed. He’s had multiple 300 games. That’s a perfect game with 12 strikes in a row for those that don’t follow bowling.
Hey, @daniel.m.tripp
Don’t remember if we discussed it before, but since I now have Garuda (Wayland) and use barrier (the KVM fork of Synergy for non-Wayland) I did set up input-leap KVM on the Garuda machines and they completely work together. Barrier running on main Mint machine and input-leap on Garuda.
I think I found that out when I had Fedora 40 installed on the old Surface tablet and had to ask how to make it work in the forum.
Not sure if I am going to add Atomic DE either on the old Surface (has had Pop for over a year) as I don’t see the need to change.
Sheila
Seems to get a bit hairy when your /boot lives on btrfs. For this reason, I usually install /boot on its own partition w/ext4. That way e.g., Fedora picks up kernel updates there even if the rest of the root partition is btrfs. Whether a given distro automatically signs those new kernels is another matter.
Some (OpenSUSE) seem to do so. On others, like Fedora KDE spin, I need to sign the hash of the new kernel with mokmanager, then it boots without shim errors like “you have to load the kernel first” or “something dreadful has happened; shutting down” or the frightening “your system is compromised”.
I think I read somewhere that either grub or initramfs has trouble with btrfs. Grub and initramfs need to read /boot. So that is why making /boot separate and ext4 helps.
That is a separate issue from secure boot
This was a great read Ernie. I’ll bookmark this for future reference. I probably won’t mess with it, I just leave secure boot off, but if/when I get the time, I might do a little tinkering with my spare lappy…
Wonder why no issues at all with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed viz. GRUB, Secure Boot, and btrfs? What have they figured out that no other distro totally has? Maybe Redmond loves RHEL’s commercial model. Also, I have never encountered issues or done extensive configuration to get Snapper working under OpenSUSE.
I think another factor in this could be encryption. If you encrypt the root filesystem, you need to make /boot separate and unencrypted, so it can be read by grub.
I think the grub-btrfs problem may have been solved recently with some updates to grub. Opensuse may have a newer grub.
Actually from my informal testing (grub2-mkconfig -V) it appears both OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora 42 use grub2 v. 2.12. Is this the correct way to deduce a newer grub? If so, there is something about Fedora that hates btrfs /boot, won’t sign new kernels, and (OK this is like OpenSUSE) won’t add other OSes that use grub2 – i.e., Fedora won’t add OpenSUSE to its grub menu, although it will add another Fedora installation … occasionally!
I cant think what it might be.
Maybe the initramfs needs to have btrfs drivers?
Have you tried remaking the initramfs?
No, it is referred to as BLS. Older Fedora (and probably RHEL) used something called grubby and sdubby for systemd, both deprecated in favor of BLS. Seems Fedora is the island in the ocean of Grub implementations that use Boot Loader Specification and probably grubby/sdubby (Fedora versions before 38, I believe).
This conversation actually has me glad I haven’t tried rolling my own initramfs, stanzas like the below aren’t meant for anybody’s reading except the dev team at RedHat, guaranteed to inspire insanity:
Gary Buhrmaster 2024-03-25 18:20:26 UTC
(In reply to Clemens Lang from comment #3) > I'm not sure we want this, considering that sdubby does not actually seem to > work with `fips-mode-setup`. See bug 2259197. I believe that issue was caused because sdubby "Provides: grubby" (and the sdboot version was > grubby) and now that sdubby has been changed to no longer provide grubby, it will not replace grubby (if installed).
Stranger and stranger, the deeper you go into a specific distro, the more “nuances” you will find. It is almost irritating, but I have found the silver bullet, called rEFInd, and have found the way to keep Secure Boot active, by signing hash of unsigned kernel updates.
So there’s peace in the boot world, and so far Windows 11 is just a “side show” on my lap-lab, as I call it. Not to say that Redmond won’t throw another spitball like the SBAT mess a year ago.
I cant see why anyone would want secure boot in a home computer.
To me it seems only appropriate for protecting computers in workplaces where other people may have access to the console.
The old idea used to be to keep all the servers in a locked room., and not worry about individual workstations other than insisting on passwords.
Amen to that, users that use “secure boot’, are they trying to hide from the “dark side”? I have never, and probably never will, enable secure boot, of course, I use the much hated “Windows” on two of my machines.
At last , someone agrees with me. Thank you Daniel
I also agree, in general, that secure boot is total nonsense when booting other OSes than Windows with BitLocker enabled. Main point in this hijacked thread is to question why it is a non-issue with OpenSUSE, even Ubuntu is pretty painless, but Arch and Fedora make you jump through a fair number of hoops, and Pop_OS, which might otherwise be my “daily driver,” flat refuses to play the game.
I consider my laptops to be infosec labs rather than tools, and infosec even for home use is shifting sands of white hats/black hats. And yes, I’m a daily reader of Krebs on Security, helping feed my paranoia furnace! So give me DiD (defense in depth) even on my Smart washer/dryer!
Hi,
I apologize for asking a naive question about using secure boot
Wasn’t there recently a piece of malware that installed itself in the BIOS/UEFI, across operating systems, was virtually undetectable, and opened a backdoor?
Jorge