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  RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117168252914591911 I was finally motivated to pick up one of these devices after reading David's review. Just got it working under Alpine Linux - the default driver stuff works as referenced on his website. I'll need to dig into this further to see what customization I want. The device itself has a great feel, has a feeling of quality. I got a boring black one and it coordinates with my cheap and cheerful keyboard I mentioned the other we...

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  Latest screenshot. Still rockin' the RDNA2 GPU; should try the RDNA3 one again, there's been a whack of kernel updates. Things you don't think about before getting a drawing tablet... I've setup the drawing tablet to the left of my keyboard so I can spin either way depending on what I am doing. My keyboard is on the desk in front/under the right large screen. My two main screens are on monitor arms from behind and the small screen placed in this orientation gi...

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  RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/117246583362762016 A positive news story about climate in my timeline? How can this be?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasoneckert/117247381221483091 Ahem...

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  Thinking about a new domain+project... Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software? Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ? I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints. Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired. I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use c...

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  Back at testing whether my RDNA3 card (7800 XT) will behave itself on this system. I'm running kernel 7.1.4 (Alpine linux-stable) so supposedly there are a bunch of fixes since 6.19 -> 7.0 -> 7.1.x. We'll see. Last hour has been solid. No screen artifacts or horizontal aberrations on terminal or web browser windows. When it did occasionally work adequately before it would hard crash to a green screen on one of the monitors after about 24 hours or so. Didn't matter what ker...

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  Hey Gang... Trying to do some damage control for a relative that is stuck on Windows. What's a good Windows email client nowadays, something with good calendar integration, etc., multiple accounts? That IS NOT Outlook. Thanks.

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  To add insult to injury, the other end of the cable was Lightning and is the only way to connect the iPhone to the car in order to use Maps. And of course the crappy Lighting cable and iPhone are old enough that if you look at it more than once per minute it randomly disconnects because... Lighting... terrible connector is terrible. Fumbling around in the dark in the car at 4 AM to drive my son to the airport in the city... Not at my best and very low tolerance levels. Minor dramas. I need a na...

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  Spent a lot of time today playing with OPNSense (err, fighting - a while back my whining about not getting along with networking was no joke). Eventually got what I wanted to work to actually work: OPNsense as an exposed node inside a Bell Giga Hub network and routing/NAT'ing to a dmz host hanging off said exposed node. But omfg, I suck at this stuff. It's painful - be glad you can't watch me work. Ha. Aaannyyyywwwaaaayyyyyy... If you haven't already upgraded t...

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  RE: https://abyssdomain.expert/@nickm/116946571615264958 Excellent advise for any engineering organization!

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  "Twasn't me..." "Well... it was teh case's fault!!!11!!!" 🤡 If you ever wanted a good reason to keep around your failed hard drives, scavenging screwed up logic boards is a good reason. Ha! #Linux #RunBSD #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Hardware #HDD

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  This is cute. https://distrofighter.com/ #Linux #Distro #DistroWars

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  I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc. Oh, that's just me? Never mind. Carry on. #Linux #AlpineLinux

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  I guess since the whole "Flatpak creating a dependency on systemd" bullshit has surfaced this week there has been some other conversations about systemd going on throughout the Fediverse. I've seen some oblique references to Debian making an effort to make OpenRC more viable as an alternate init system. That's about all I've gathered on my hit-n-run timeline surfing the last several days. Not sure if this is an official Debian project or just someone's wish list. Anyo...

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  Is there anyone out there running an AMD 5825U based system running Linux or BSD? Can you tell us your CPU and GPU idle power numbers as displayed in btop? #Linux #RunBSD #AMD #5825U #PowerConsumption #Power #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SOHO

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  RE: https://mastodon.sakura-star.net/@KitsuneofInari/116336733010511672 This is the way.

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  Is there a "trick" to getting Firefox/Waterfox/spin_of_choice to actually reload images from source when you press Shift-Reload / Shift-Ctrl-R ? Sometimes it does it - most of the time it keeps reloading the same image from cache for a really long time regardless how many times you shift-reload. Closing the browser doesn't help most of the time. What am I missing? #Web #Firefox

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  More monkeying around with OpenBSD. I spent a bunch of time getting LXQt working but the themeing was taking too much time so I threw more ram at the VM and installed KDE. The goal was to learn about OpenBSD, not LXQT. Ha. Lots of the standard apps are there in OpenBSD but I need to find out how to get Librewolf and Waterfox going. Having done zero research, I'm assuming I need to compile from source. I saw an article out using "Molly" as an alternate Signal Messenger...

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  Sometime around 2017 (IIRC) I got nostalgic for a little "netbook" type computer and decided, for some reason, that an HP Stream 14 would scratch that itch. These are really low spec machines, even for 2016-2017. It came with Windows 10 and the first Windows Update basically filled the disk and effectively bricked the device. LOL! I installed Linux on it after that (ofc) but didn't really use it much. So slow.... I was digging around in my service manuals library thi...