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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • This is just one of the comments on the Revolt E2EE issue, I guess the author felt so proud of their opinion to make it into a blog post, I wouldn’t say anything if they at least revisited the whole discussion and tried to make a reasonable summary.
    The argument provided in the article against features is simply “too hard to develop, too hard to maintain, nobody cares enough”.
    If nobody cared, nobody would go on Matrix, if everything that was hard to develop were just dropped before even trying, we would have stopped at the hello world (not implying I’m not a lazy developer, but I surely don’t want to imply that there aren’t brilliant people out there who can undertake scarily big tasks).
    Giving another feature as a sort of replacement: federated identities, is not a replacement at all, it’s a completely different scope. I just can’t empathise with the point that they try to make









  • That’s fair, I won’t say that it’s not as complicated as it sounds because I don’t know what you know, but if you want it put into simple words, it’s the following:

    1. Install drive 1 in PC
    2. Install Windows
    3. Remove drive 1 from the PC and put drive 2 in its place
    4. Install any Linux distro that comes with GRUB as bootloader (most of them, personally recommend Fedora if you want a suggestion)
    5. Install drive 1 into the second slot that was left empty up to now
    6. Start boot, your motherboard will have a specific key to launch the boot selector, e.g. F10, or go into the UEFI settings to put the Linux option first
    7. Boot into Linux and trigger the GRUB detection for other OSes so it updates the list of entries
    8. Reboot
    9. Now without having to smash a random key to get the built-in boot selector, you will instead be able to choose comfortably from GRUB.

    Anyways don’t pressure yourself into doing any of that if you don’t feel comfortable with it, of course.
    One step at a time, the important thing is you’re satisfied with what you have and that it’s functional to your workflow



  • You just need to run the installation with one drive at a time if you want to be extra sure, then each will have its own boot partition and they can still work together, for example I have 3 drives, one Linux, one Windows and one storage, the Linux one has GRUB on it and it detects the bootloader on the Windows drive just fine so you can select either from that or the UEFI boot selector. Never had updates scramble anything for neither of the two systems