User contributions for MacGyver
30 January 2023
- 23:4223:42, 30 January 2023 diff hist +191 Talk:Installation guide →Recommended minimum size of ESP is becoming cramped for certain popular installations (kernel & initcpio on ESP + Nvidia and/or KMS): Suggested rephrasing to add "other operating systems"
6 January 2023
- 12:4712:47, 6 January 2023 diff hist +3,769 Talk:Installation guide →Recommended minimum size of ESP is becoming cramped for certain popular installations (kernel & initcpio on ESP + Nvidia and/or KMS): new section
25 May 2022
- 16:2516:25, 25 May 2022 diff hist −2 m Security →Lock out user after three failed login attempts: Grammar hard hur durr.
- 16:2416:24, 25 May 2022 diff hist +567 Security →Lock out user after three failed login attempts: Explicitly suggest sensible defaults, hopefully lowering the number of people taking the easy way out.
16 May 2022
- 18:1718:17, 16 May 2022 diff hist +1,141 Category talk:ARM architecture →Less surprising redirect for the ARM architecture pages: new section current
20 September 2021
- 03:4303:43, 20 September 2021 diff hist −2 m Laptop/HP →UEFI bootloader not found: Not all models affected of course.
- 03:4203:42, 20 September 2021 diff hist +1,972 Laptop/HP →Troubleshooting: Apparently this plagues more than one HP model; in particular the Probook 6550b as well as the EliteBook 840 G1 (from which this section was taken)
19 April 2021
- 11:4811:48, 19 April 2021 diff hist +284 m Talk:Pacman →Adding another solution to "Pacman crashes during an update": Don't describe this as "likely", people get scared when crashes are "likely".
7 April 2021
- 18:3318:33, 7 April 2021 diff hist +242 Pacman →Removing packages: Insert warning about group-removals ignoring install reason for packages in the group.
17 July 2019
- 13:3713:37, 17 July 2019 diff hist +971 Sudo →Tips and tricks: How to fix the "sudo in background times out" problem of e.g. AUR helpers by disabling prompt timeout and adding bell, to counter "suppress the prompt" through "enable passwordless sudo" and "extend the password remembering timeout".
12 May 2019
- 22:4722:47, 12 May 2019 diff hist +4,207 Talk:WireGuard →Page is unclear on how to set up a routed network using WireGuard: I disagree, but a *mesh* network would be beneficial to add.
4 December 2018
- 16:2416:24, 4 December 2018 diff hist +434 Talk:QEMU →-enable-kvm vs -machine type=pc,accel=kvm: The options are equivalent.
- 15:5415:54, 4 December 2018 diff hist +112 m QEMU →Enabling KVM: Clarify that there's a second option which does the same.
3 April 2018
- 13:5813:58, 3 April 2018 diff hist +193 PC speaker →Access for non-root users: SetUID privilege escalation vulnerability marked as such.
12 March 2018
- 16:5316:53, 12 March 2018 diff hist 0 m WireGuard →Persistent configuration: Won't work without root either.
- 16:5216:52, 12 March 2018 diff hist 0 m WireGuard →Peer B setup: Must be run as root
- 16:5116:51, 12 March 2018 diff hist 0 m WireGuard →Peer A setup: Must be run as root.
18 January 2018
- 13:5013:50, 18 January 2018 diff hist +102 Wayland →Requirements: Clarify blurb on compositors.
24 August 2017
- 15:5915:59, 24 August 2017 diff hist +357 Network configuration (Nederlands) Add warning that this page is seriously outdated, refer back to the English page.
20 August 2016
- 10:4410:44, 20 August 2016 diff hist +317 Lm sensors Cleanup of some dead links.
- 10:1310:13, 20 August 2016 diff hist +13 Fan speed control lm-sensors.org is down and seems unlikely to come back; device support list at wiki.kernel.org instead.
24 June 2016
- 14:0714:07, 24 June 2016 diff hist +1 m Talk:General guidelines →Maybe make the section "correct" more clear: Fix threading
- 14:0014:00, 24 June 2016 diff hist +506 Talk:General guidelines →Maybe make the section "correct" more clear
24 February 2016
- 22:3322:33, 24 February 2016 diff hist +780 RAID →Standard RAID levels: Added RAID 6 but with a pointer that in most settings, RAID10,far2 is actually preferred.
- 22:2622:26, 24 February 2016 diff hist +199 RAID →Build the Array: Added RAID10
- 22:2422:24, 24 February 2016 diff hist 0 m RAID →Example 3. RAID10,far2: Fix inconsistent array name
- 22:2322:23, 24 February 2016 diff hist +5 m RAID →Calculating the Stride and Stripe-width: Again, syntax.
- 22:2222:22, 24 February 2016 diff hist +1,084 RAID →Calculating the Stride and Stripe-width: Added RAID10,far2, because it's non-intuitive in that it has two data disks even though it's mirroring.
- 22:1222:12, 24 February 2016 diff hist +149 RAID →RAID level comparison: Updated comparison based on benchmarks and Linux-specific MD RAID10
- 22:0022:00, 24 February 2016 diff hist +1,399 RAID →Nested RAID levels: RAID10 is actually different in Linux, and RAID10 in far2 layout is the superior solution as it stands.
- 21:3821:38, 24 February 2016 diff hist +4 m RAID →Standard RAID levels: I should check my syntax before committing.
- 21:3721:37, 24 February 2016 diff hist +267 RAID →Standard RAID levels: RAID5 is, in fact, no longer recommended by the storage industry.
22 February 2016
- 20:5220:52, 22 February 2016 diff hist +14 RAID Split and reorder the zero-superblock warnings, otherwise they read as "sentence 2 is fix for sentence 1", which is nonsensical and dangerous; both are important warnings.
21 September 2013
- 22:2722:27, 21 September 2013 diff hist +5 m Mkinitcpio →Common hooks
- 22:2622:26, 21 September 2013 diff hist +99 Mkinitcpio →Common hooks