How-not-to Guide: Ouch! Things to __not__ do (lightheartedly)

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Without intention to further advocate or oppose, just for peculiarity, we just had such a case, another amongst countless, hahaha

Locked myself out by unchecking autostart of sys-usb

Hi, everyone! I’ve locked myself out of Qubes in the process of trying to switch the template used for sys-usb. I cloned the sys-usb qube, added the USB controller to the clone from the devices tab in settings, checked autostart in the clone, and then unchecked autostart in the original sys-usb qube. After doing this, I rebooted the OS thinking that the clone would now be used. That didn’t work, or I did something wrong in the process, because now I can enter the encryption passphrase, but the k…