Root encryption on the M1 Mac running Asahi Fedora Remix is done for a while now.
I have set up LUKS while booting from another partition running Debian so GRUB2 doesn't get confused.
This was easier then having making a bootable USB work, which I still couldn't do.
All going well since, seems like it is a viable setup.
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Was the root encryption tedious to setup?
Is battery life degraded?
Not once managed to boot an other Linux on the machine.
There is a good guide here outlining the steps:
https://davidalger.com/posts/fedora-asahi-remix-on-apple-silicon-with-luks-encryption/Tried running Tails from usb but couldn’t get it to work because of this. Is there a workaround? A maybe a dedicated computer with Tails? Would that be even possible?
Tails is not built for arm processors. It is not just the M1 chips, there is no version for eg. Pinebook neither.
To run traditional amd64/x86 software get any cheap Thinkpad, they have great linux compatibility and work with Tails out of the box.
If want to go deeper look into replacing BIOS/UEFI with Coreboot or Libreboot as well.
Does Asahi support all the functionality of the chip, gpu etc? I.e. can you use the Asahi M1 Mac for self-hosted LLMs, like the normal Mac?
M1 is supposed to be pretty good for that I read
Great this straightens my head I will give it another go with one of those machines.
I’m thinking of replacing the whole windows installation with Tails, so I don’t have to run it from a USB device.
Am I doing this right?
I read the guide but I was turned off by the complexity.
That's the plan. What model are you trying to self host? You can probably do it without their hardware.
That's not how it works. What are you trying to gain?
I just want to run tails on a laptop. My MacBook doesn’t let me boot from usb. So I need to use some other machine.
Then suddenly I thought why not create a dedicated tails-laptop. Just Tails, nothing else.
You'll need different hardware. Have you heard of Qubes?
I just read some of their website. Looks pretty cool too. Maybe I’ll go try running that on my spare laptop.
Would the security be comparable to tails?
It's way better. You can create VMs with different permissions. You might create a Tor only Debian VM template. Install the apps you only need so there's no bloat. You can keep a version with persistent storage or not.
Sounds great thanks for the mention and your explanation. I’ll fiddle around with it for a while.
You're welcome. They actually have a good forum too.
