Hi all,
Thanks for the summary Christine. And thanks for showing these awesome
devices.
On 2/6/26 13:53, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote:
- It's painful with full disk encryption even then, because you have to
type your passphrase twice. And the first time you type it you're
stuck waiting for what feels like ages to find out if you entered it
right or not, and if you haven't, you have to start all over. And if
you have, you have to enter it *again*, with a "three strikes till a
rescue REPL" situation, which if you hit that it's the absolute worst
because then you have to start all over again.
Add to this that one of the two passwords (the first IIRC) always uses
the QWERTY layout [1].
As a result, there is only one string I can *almost* (but not quite)
touch type in QWERTY.
I tried to show my other family members (who are rather young) how to
start the machine. This was not feasible, as they can *only* touch type
in QWERTY...
(Maybe it is possible to add multiple passphrases? Or well, the same
one, but "touch typed" on the wrong layout. If you understand what I mean.)
In one way I trained them well, because they read the entire screen.
Which contains a segmentation fault and various other errors [2], so
that didn't go over well either.
By the way, it also feels that the first wait has gotten slower a few
months ago, but not sure.
This is not really a complaint; as I also don't know how to fix any of
these. Just a reflection on the current state of things.
Hugo
[1] Not about keyboard layout in grub:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/5612
[2] Boot error messages, w/ screenshot:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/735
