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Pretty slick installation

That looks so much better than the one I now have to use for work, only the functionality I need

Congrats! Both look great for their ages.

Awesome!

One idea I had when I was considering this previously was to add some files to the iso (in my case, my kernel and modules compiled in Slackware to expedite things) so that they'd be accessible during the installation.

Just like those Handsome Jack clones lol!

I wasn't sure what I'd want to use for my Pi 5 but I think I'll go with that as well

I might have to take a stab at that

I'm not familiar with it but RaspArch might be a possibility until vanilla Arch has better support. I noticed they mention EndeavourOS, that one I used to run the X86_64 version of, it was pretty close to vanilla Arch with a couple additional repositories.

Yeah that first one is the one I got, $195 US. That 2nd one with the 64 GB SD card should be good for most uses and you could always get a bigger SD card later.

I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM, I've been wanting to get one to check out and thought I'd do that before the tariffs potentially become a factor. They're said to be a huge improvement over the Pi 4's. I haven't gotten to it yet but I got it as a kit that includes a case. I'll ...

Potentially dangerous power regression in some cases (nosmt) in kernel 6.15:

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point ...

Btop on the Raspberry Pi (via ssh):

Here's how to install Gentoo and LFS on a Raspberry Pi

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/How_to_ins ... berry_Pi_5

https://intestinate.com/pilfs/

With all the peripherals sticking out does look kind of funny :) It's a touch screen, but not really that useful for this.

Yeah it's the "Raspberry Pi OS", they used to call it Raspbian but renamed it at some point. I used the Raspberry Pi Imager in Arch to download the latest image and write it to ...

I'm too far away to listen the LA talk radio station I've listened to since my 20's so that just leaves listening over the Internet. I wanted something low power that could be on all day in the background, like a radio. I looked into "Internet radios", but they all looked clunky to use and the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is not a fan of Trump

Notepad... why, just why. That should have been left as a simple text editor. They did fix it up so it could handle larger files already, nothing more needed to be done to it. Soon it's going to have AI buttons so you can chat with it, I'll bet.


Looks like you were right about AI coming to ...

Saw this last night:


I see that sometimes in charts, where they discontinue regular cancer screening colonoscopies due to a patient's age.

I got that one on my work machine tonight, I check it after work to get any updates done so that it doesn't delay me signing into work the next day.

Service was finally restored mid afternoon and I managed to get 7 hours of work in before running out of steam. From what I was able to find out this affected all the fiber ISPs in the area since they all use the same cable bundles. That's why I want to get a backup ISP that uses a different type of ...

Someone said they talked to them and found out all cables were cut and they suspect vandalism, and they are currently splicing them back together, it may take until 8PM.

And it's out again one month later.

Something I'll keep in mind. I just checked mine, first I tried the Update Now, then I tried some in the list and some of them had updates despite having clicked the global Update Now button.

Speaking of Windows 11, I ended up with it on my work machine today, aggressively. Earlier in the day while I was working on another screen the application I was in suddenly lost focus, so I looked to see what had grabbed it. On another screen there was a window that had popped up - "Windows 11 ...

Someone posted this on FB. The premise is that anti-Nazi, anti-fascist games like "Wolfenstein: The New Order" couldn't be made today because of the current political regime / climate.



Here's an article along those lines from 2017.

I found something that helped a lot. In the panel settings under the Appearance tab, with 'Solid color' as the style, click on the color and add a custom color (the + button), then slide the opacity slider (hard to see the slider but it's right under the color range diagram) to the far left side ...

I had some trouble with it repeatedly disabling sound. Sound would work just fine and then later it wouldn't. In the audio settings my primary Intel audio would look ok but there would be no sound. Switching it to another sound source, either an external USB sound adapter or displayport (via the ...

I did a fresh install of Slackware today. still a few things to do but I got all the basic things configured and working including Grub. XFCE only this time. I dropped in the last kernel I compiled in the previous Slackware install and I'm running on it now until I do 6.15, initrd-free!