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Holy shit, year of the IPv6??

(I know this was 2025)

You’re backgrounding the cunnilingus?

True, true haha

Oh good! Happy I could help. :)

Enjoying your snaps, Neo?

How do you know?

Zoom not having working audio—discovered right before a job interview 💀

But yeah, I bet it would work! Just make sure you run modprobe-db with the manufacturer’s kernel long enough to run all the software you’ll actually use, so it can record the modules you need.

Of course, make sure you read up on it with that ArchWiki article and take a look at the source code to be sure (it’s basically a simple shell script), but from what I understand it should do what you need.

Yeah, if you use a kernel you built off modprobe-db’s config output, but the build config was generated before you ever used that USB device, then yeah, your kernel wouldn’t have the right modules for it (if the device required some unique kernel modules). modprobe-db will only tell you what it’s seen you use.

Those modules, man… they’re the biggest cause of—dare I say it?—bloat in the kernel.

For the few people here who may not know about it: there’s a utility called modprobe-db that watches what kernel modules get loaded at runtime, and can generate a kernel build config file accordingly. There’s even an ArchWiki article about it. You need to keep it around for a while (e.g. several weeks or months) so it can get a proper sample of the modules you use; that way, your kernel can have all the modules you need (ask me how I know). If you do it right, however, you can slim down your compile time significantly.

It’s the same for me! I was starting to think I was the only one.

The funny part of the original scene is that that is exactly what Morpheus himself does when Neo is outside the Matrix—tells him what the Matrix is.

This is one of a few different examples (in that film and the others) that give credence to reading Morpheus as less trustworthy than he is styled. He should maybe be doubted more often.

Ah but you see, this is my bloat! 😂

Non-technical readers? In my Linux memes community??