Linux

The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta ran this weekend. And not only does it actually run on the Steam Deck, it does so surprisingly decently!

It all started yesterday morning, where I booted up my laptop and found that the greeter (the visual login prompt) was not displaying anything: I had a cursor and a black screen.

Talking with someone about Apple ecosystem, linux, and cross-device integrations in general Made me realise how much of this is actually a pain I usually joke “It’s hell, but one of my own creation so I at least know which torture devices there are.

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 step-by-step guide to dualbooting encrypted Windows and Arch Linux, using the rEFInd boot mananger.

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