TIL to make Debian's initrd image smaller by changing an option from most to dep, or even list. https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/initramfs-tools-core/initramfs.conf.5.en.html#MODULES
Useful because /boot defaults to about 500MB and initrd images started exceeding 240MB.
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