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Installing Arch Linux with Full Disk Encryption

If you're aiming for a seamless Arch Linux installation in UEFI mode, follow along as this guide will walk you through the process step by step. We'll be using LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) and LVM (Logical Volume Manager) partitions on LUKS to achieve full disk encryption.

Note: I have updated this doc for UEFI mode. For those with BIOS/MBR systems, you can refer to the previous version, but keep in mind that it might be outdated and no longer accurate.

If you're only interested in installing Linux and not setting up dual boot with Windows, feel free to skip the Windows-related sections.

The new Raspberry Pi 3 released on 29 Feb 2016 has issues with its UART port as the pinout GPIO 14/15 on the pin header is now based on a low throughput mini-UART.

To understand the issue better than reading the wall of text below, you can see the talk I gave on this issue.

The actual hardware UART on the BCM2837 SoC has now been assigned to handle Bluetooth with the BCM43438 Wifi/Bluetooth chip. More details can be found here and here.

This mini-UART does not produce a stable baud rate as it fluctuates based on the Core clock speed whenever it rises or falls. The result is that the serial debug output is practically unusable. On Raspbian you may see garbage or nothing at all. The solution is simple, add core_freq=250 to /boot/config.txt to cap the core frequency to a constant value. This optio

Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU

Goal: Emulate a Raspberry Pi with QEMU in order to run the Raspbian O/S (based on Debian Linux).

The current setup is not ideal. For one thing, the maximum RAM allowed using the "versatile-pb" firmware is 256 Mb. In addition, only the most basic peripherals, a keyboard and mouse, are supported.

A number of articles have been written on this topic. Most are outdated, and the few recent ones are missing key information.

Chaining promises

Chaining promises in ClojureScript is best done using the thread-first macro, ->. Here's an example of using the fetch API:

(-> (js/fetch "/data")
    (.then (fn [r]
             (when-not (.-ok r)
               (throw (js/Error. "Could not fetch /data")))
             (.json r)))

	#!/bin/bash
	# As described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1766076
	### Installation Instructions:
	# 1. Install file into `/usr/local/bin/reset-tb`
	#
	# 2. Optional: allow password less sudo by creating a file `/etc/sudoers.d/allow-reset-tb` with the following content:
	# ----8<-----
	# <your username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/reset-tb
	# ----8<-----
	#