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@pastermil If you want a newer kernel than is provided in the apt package manager, you can download the latest from kernel.org, unxz it with unxz kernel-version.tar.xz, then untar it. It will give you a directory like linux-6.14.6, cd to that directory and do a make mrproper to remove any residual crap that might have been left there by the maintainer or a previous build, then if you want the stock debian configuration copy the current config file from /boot to .config, then make any adjustments to the .config, including some automatic adjustments that get made for your environment with make config, make menuconfig, makexconfig, make gconfig, whatever you prefer. For xconfig and gconfig which are graphical configuration GUIs you may need to install some libs that aren’t installed by default on Debian but ARE provided in your apt package manager. Then make -j$(NPROC) bindeb-pkg, for example on my machine 18 cores, 36 threads, I would do make -j36 bindeb-pkg to fully utilize the CPU cores, on the 18 core machine this takes about 7 minutes, on my 8 core workstation about 18, when it’s done you’ll be left with three or four .deb packages (depending upon whether or not save DEBUG is turned on or off in the kernel config). When you are done install the packages with dpkg -i *.deb, check /boot and your new kernel should be installed.

@sommerset You can always compile your own kernels for Debian, I’m running 6.14.6 on debian:

Linux debian 6.14.6 #1 SMP Sat May 10 15:48:59 PDT 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux

@Intheflsun @Floopquist What I meant is that I do not think you can have it discharge the battery when AC is present without altering the PD chips firmware.

@Floopquist I don’t think that you can do that without altering the firmware on the PD chip.

@Cornflake I prefer good old fashioned dump/restore, but whatever works for you. Most people seem to opt for no backups at all, obviously not a good choice.

@solrize Well it could be worse, I still have an old Dell Inspiron with it’s original 2.5" 3600 RPM ultra-slow hard drive. Now that the battery has finally given up the ghost, I am going to replace it with an SSD while I have it open to change out the battery, but because the nvme slot on this machine only supports a max of 500GB, I am going with SATA.

@solrize You want to use nvme rather than sata if possible, particularly if a high end ssd as the absolute max speed you can get with sata is 6gb/s and also using a sata ssd will often make one or two sata ports not function.

@FooBarrington You didn’t just specify memory safe, you advocated stripping away a number of features. Yes memory safe anything is a good idea and I’ve got no objection to the use of rust, I think it’s a good language, one of the few worthwhile efforts to emerge in recent years, but if it is going go be re-implemented, do so fully. Yes, anything that runs with privileges should be memory safe else it’s open to attack and Rust certainly makes that more possible, I am just concerned about the limiting feature set aspect. I’m not in favor of protecting users from themselves, I don’t want a car that is capable of reading speed limit signs and prevents me from exceeding them even if doing so might be unsafe or illegal, that not the car manufacturers job to be come an arm of the government, likewise I don’t want Linux protecting me from myself, I already address potentials with regular backups, etc.

@FauxLiving I’ve been using Ubuntu for about 14 years and in the past they’ve been at least somewhat interested in user input. I hope “don’t become another fucking Microsoft” is a message that Canonical gets.

@FooBarrington What you are advocating is taking power away from the user. Go install WIndows 11 if this is what you want punk.

Take all the power away from the end user and give it all to Poettering, NO FUCKING THANKS.

The BIOS does not know about the RAID, the is why the EFI partition has to be a regular partition, but there is nothing forbidding more than one EFI partition so simply duplicating that across both drives ensures the same redundancy the RAID offers, but GRUB DOES know about RAID 1, so if you setup a raid1 array as the boot partition and then just write the boot block to both drives along with the EFI partition you can RAID everything except the EFI boot partition. Sorry your motherboard reduces your speed if you have more than one nvme, sounds very odd. Mine does share bandwidth if the SSD’s are SATA but NOT if they are nvme.

Can you do it? Yes. Will the performance suck outright? Yes. Nextcloud is a pig. I run it on an 18-core i9-10980xe server clocked at 4.5 Ghz with 256GB of RAM, with RAIDED nvme disk, and I don’t find the performance adequate on this platform.

You don’t need a RAID controller, I have dual NVME set up with RAID1 and boot off the RAID one partition, the only partition I can’t raid is the EFI partition because BIOS doesn’t know about it, but that I simply duplicate by hand on both drives using dd, since it only gets updated at kernel updates, it just adds a dd to the kernel upgrade process.

Between bash (and the 40 or so other shells available under Linux), python, perl, and the several hundred other scripting languages already available, is a dedicated job control language really needed? I think unnecessary fluff.

If you can get a few hundred watts of electrical power, StarLink is an option for broadband connectivity via satellite when all the local communications are down. Don’t know why, but Star Link reminds me of Sky Net.

@warmaster @apt_install_coffee No it is also possible with Intel, it was in fact possible with Intel BEFORE nVidia.

Best bet when installing a second OS is to MANUALLY partition, select the existing fat-32 efi partition for efi, write the boot block to the drive you’re going to boot off of, and choose free space for the remaining required partitions.

Put them wherever you want, don’t let Poettering dictate what you do with YOUR system. It is better NOT to put them in system directories since those will get overwritten by upgrades.

By the way, no different for Linux, if you boot off of USB you can mount partitions and access anything if not encrypted and linux windows, encryption is not the default.