You get one dodgy episode and that's all anyone remembers...
Australis13
joined 2 years ago
Yes, although regular brushing (esp. with a deshedder) and vacuuming helps a lot.
Yes! I have to understand how a process works before I can do it myself.
To all the people who just "give it a go" without knowing exactly what they're doing - I cannot comprehend how you do that.
I've stumbled across a solution: install the Linux Surface project kernel.
I've tested both the mainline kernel provided by Debian and the Linux Surface project and the former consistently produces the error with the keyboard detached. With the Linux Surface kernel it boots successfully regardless. I don't fully understand the mechanism, unfortunately, but this provides a workaround at least.
Thanks - I'm going to have to do a bit more reading to get my head around that. Secure Boot is not my forte!
I think I've found one of your previous posts with the links you were referring to: https://fedia.io/m/linux@lemmy.world/t/113434/UEFI-Secure-Boot-keys-replacement-guide-please-help-sanity-check
And also some more comments here that looked useful: https://lemmy.world/comment/11384715
So based on @j4k3@lemmy.world's advice, I had a look at RHEL and found this:
https://github.com/rhboot/shim/ https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SbatLevel_Variable.txt https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md#uefi-sbat-variable-content
Debian's own shim repo (https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/shim) seems to derive from this. Shim is apparently the bootloader application that is reporting the error I'm seeing.
Unfortunately still no idea what causes the issue (let alone why it's correlated with the keyboard), but it makes me wonder if somehow the contents of the SbatLevel variable aren't formatted correctly in the absence of the keyboard cover.
More digging required.
Thanks, I will check out those resources and see what I can find.
Something something deflector dish...
That was Jon Pertwee's go-to for technobabble when he was in Doctor Who (although the full line "I've reversed the polarity of the neutron flow" only appears twice, IIRC).
Yeah, that's got my attention too. Definitely going to try them out now since I need an alternative for remote support for family.
This will be handy for those couple of Windows-only applications I have that need an Internet connection and don't yet work under Wine. Gives me a bit more time to try to debug them and see if a fix is possible.
Something doesn't quite add up for me, though, with the "free" option of "Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud" or a $30 payment instead. Is Microsoft really that keen to get everyone's settings, or is this an error in the press release and what they really want is everyone to use Windows Backup to transfer all their files to Microsoft's cloud (OneDrive) in preparation for Windows 11?
Confirmed: https://www.science.org/content/article/yes-cats-are-liquids-only-one-dimension