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1.  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:31 JST 

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   • Phantasm
   • reeeeeelman
   • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   @phnt @realman543 @nyanide @atlrvrse It might've seen its first widespread use in Itanium, but it was made to be platform-independent and I think there were some early EFI-based x86 systems as well from Nokia.
   >only 66MB is used
   Just my initramfs is larger than that; I think I could cut it down by throwing out unnecessary NIC modules for LUKS unlock over SSH, but can't be bothered until it grows more.
   Also,
   >19:23:45.889 [error] Object rejected while fetching https://social.translunar.academy/objects/29a028b3-c1cf-4b4f-8fbb-c9dffb8931b2 {:fetch, {:error, :forbidden}}
   Looks like I need a new signature broker.
   • reeeeeelman (realman543@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:32 JST reeeeeelman

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     • Phantasm
     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @phnt @nyanide @atlrvrse What if I were to tell you this was always the plan?
     
     Also EFI is only good if the software is open source. Otherwise it's just a large chunk of hard drive you can't use anymore and is really no better or worse than BIOS. Marketing gimmick.
   • Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:32 JST Phantasm

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     • reeeeeelman
     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @realman543 @nyanide @atlrvrse
     >What if I were to tell you this was always the plan?
     It kinda was since it was originally made for Itanic servers.
     
     >Otherwise it's just a large chunk of hard drive you can't use anymore
     It's space you would still use for system boot anyway. My EFI partition is 256MB (Windows default) and only 66MB is used. 26MB of it is Windows loader language resources and fonts. GRUB takes 2MB and most of it is just junk modules I don't need and didn't bother to remove.
   • reeeeeelman (realman543@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:33 JST reeeeeelman

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     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @nyanide @atlrvrse >efi partition
     Moving from BIOS was a mistake.
   • Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:33 JST Phantasm

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     • reeeeeelman
     • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @realman543 @nyanide @atlrvrse EFI was nice until vendors fucked it up by Internet capable network/mouse drivers, Secure Boot and other bloat. The concept of running binaries from one partition instead of going through MBR->(PBR)->Actual bootloader->OS is a good one.
   • nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 04:35:34 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
     @atlrvrse 5 gigabyte efi partition.. are they writing their bootloader in nodejs or something?