Tim Schumacher
@t1mschumi
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Posting one tweet a year on average.
Joined November 2016
I suppose I will post on Bluesky more actively going forward, for the people who don't want to keep their Twitter account. The profile picture will be subject to change once my laptop is operational again.
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Behold! My magnum opus! The inaugural blog post!.And. it's the fourth one to be posted?. Turns out, developing a bootloader on retail embedded hardware is more difficult than first imagined.
blog.timschumi.net
Many months ago, a slightly younger Tim thought that porting mainline Linux to his old Android phone for the purpose of experimentation would be a great way to pass time. (In hindsight it was, but...
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PSA: Make sure to compile your performance-critical application with optimizations enabled before benchmarking it and being sad that it's slow.
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This is a follow-up to an earlier post that discussed the user-visible effects of said issue.
Ever wanted to know what can go wrong when implementing a UEFI boot menu? Yeah, me neither.
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The exciting conclusion! What other kinds of horror can we uncover in the land of vendor EFI firmware?.
blog.timschumi.net
Last time, we figured out why not being able to retrieve EFI variables while installing Linux results in an empty UEFI boot menu and an inaccessible BIOS setup menu. Now, we want to discover what is...
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Thanks to Twitter for not telling me that I had pending incoming message requests for the last three months, I guess?.
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I wonder how often I can send variations of similar patches to LKML before people start questioning my (or their) sanity.
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Automatically closing and locking issues/threads is probably one of the stupidest things that people have come up with. I worked around a bug that has been bricking laptops for the last 10 years. Now I can't go back to 10 year old threads and tell people how to fix their laptop.
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Ever wanted to know what can go wrong when implementing a UEFI boot menu? Yeah, me neither.
blog.timschumi.net
A few months ago, I got given a laptop with a very interesting condition. The BIOS setup menu was supposedly inaccessible, and nothing apart from the default boot option works. Time to investigate to...
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The instance might still be subject to change, depending on how the performance and the whole "blocking other instances" issue turns out.
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Verifying myself: I am timschumi on Eo3YhKIXfjjkIFAUiVEqga38SmHq8HYi3CJn /
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Things I will never get used to: Installing RAM in a PC. It just feels wrong.
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