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Past me set up GPG keys at a time where I thought I’d encrypt everything. I think I used them 3 times right after setting them up, and then never again.

After having the motherboard replaced in my laptop, I was unable to reconfigure the boot-manager to rEFInd the normal way. Fortunately, I had a tiny bit of experience with the UEFI shell and ‘recovered’ things through that.

My Nitrokey suddenly broke. This is some ramblings about working my way through the harebrained backup schemes I established, and setting up something a bit more sane+safe…

A detailed overview of how I installed Arch Linux on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1), having never install Arch before.