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• Post #4501053

  And unlike most „forbidden characters“ for file names, the colon is actually used in NTFS: to separate the file path from the name of a named fork.

• Why is the TPM so slow on boot?

  I just found out about systemd-analyze, and it shows that the 5 slowest devices are all the TPM. Why is that, and can I do anything about it? I do actually use the TPM for disk encryption and Measured Boot, and can’t simply disable it. My host is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 AMD, and I run NixOS with this configuration. The output of `systemd-analyze blame` plaintext 5.246s sys-devices-platform-NTC0702:00-tpmrm-tpmrm0.device 5.246s dev-tpmrm0.device 4.109s sys-devices-virtual-dmi-id.device 3.661s sys-d...