
Okay, who put the armadillo in here?

Okay, who put the armadillo in here?
Did you know that you can use a Yubikey for 2-factor disk encryption on the Fedora Linux distribution? It probably won’t save you from the situation in the comic. It does have benefits if you are around people you don’t trust, such as shady roommates. Authentication that requires something you know (e.g. password) and something you have (e.g. Yubikey) can prevent someone from accessing your computer unless they somehow have both parts.
Mining on Linux with AMD graphics cards has always been a pain, especially since their AMDGPU-Pro drivers typically cause black screens! A lot of people end up having to resort to mining on Windows or using the outdated Ubuntu version that AMDGPU-Pro is supposedly compatible with. This guide takes AMD’s poorly designed installer and so much frustration out of the picture!
My original server setup went down after an update gone wrong. (This is why you should stick with stable Linux releases for servers!) Yes, I could have easily fixed it myself. However, there were other factors that led me to rethink my entire setup.
If you search for ways to rip discs on Linux, you will probably see people recommending graphical tools like Brasero or command line tools like cdrdao. Those recommendations are all well and good, but they each have their own issues.
I bought a MSI GS43VR 7RE gaming laptop recently. I bought it thinking I could run Linux on it fairly easily. Unfortunately, it turned that MSI laptops and Linux are not always a good mix. The good news is that the hardware in this laptop is MOSTLY supported by drivers that are included with recent releases of Antergos, Mint, Ubuntu, and probably a few other Linux distributions as well.