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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

And I hate this "works for me" attitude with things, do not do this ever again.

There is no objective way to measure something like "reliability", it will always be very subjective and based on personal experience.

I have always thought it is very reliable because it has never failed me. But you think it is not reliable, so I'm curious as to what experiences you have had that made you think it is unreliable.

This is a normal way how people discuss things and learn for each other. It's not an attitude and I'm not going to promise to "not do this ever again".

@SuperDicq @volpeon The reasons why I'm taking it as unreliable are basically architectural, it'll work for most but the failure modes are the worst for a bootloader to have.

grub-install can literally fail to fully install and not report an error. Combine this with how modules have ABI breaks without backward compatibility, so you get the MBR or EFI executable updated to a new version but without their modules required for bootup.

Similarly grub-install often fails to detect the hardware, which is stuff that ought to be into a configuration (allowing a verification step) instead of magically done every time it's executed.

grub-mkconfig similarly can create config files that it then cannot parse, that one even predates grub 2.x

@phnt @volpeon @SuperDicq @lanodan @Mamako @mischievoustomato I have only recommenceded to run a tor middle - never a tor exit.

A blindingly obvious joke about running an exit at home was clearly not a serious recommendation.

Provided you live in a country that isn't totally retarded, if you were to do the based move of setting up an exit relay at home, provided you setup rDNS and the tor exit notice correctly, the feds are extremely unlikely to do anything (although the ISP may cut you off and a bunch of sites will censor you).