I know Bluefin Linux is supposed to have the “reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook” but what happens if you actually install it on a Chromebook? 😁
@owen@jaiden@s31bz Yep thanks to https://mrchromebox.tech/. I initially stuck Ubuntu 24.04 on it but thought I’d see what performance was like on other distros and I’ve wanted to try Bluefin for a little while.
I think unfortunately for the best experience I might have to go with something like straight Debian or Arch without any Snaps or Flatpaks or anything. It is not a fast machine and any overhead is quite noticeable. 😆
I’ve been pretty stressed recently, due to changes at work, being a dad and not really being able to run which is usually how I cope.
I rode motorcycles for years but sold my last in about 2018 as it wasn’t getting used. However I’ve always missed it, could use my own transport and want a bit of a project to distract me.
So this week I bought a lightly crashed BMW R1150RT. It’s getting delivered some time in the next few days. 😁
@fedops Hoenstly I think I probably overpaid by a couple of hundred but I got carried away and it’s only got 36k miles on the clock. We shall see when it gets delivered. 🤷
The downside of my parents living in an area full of littering vape addicts is there being litter everywhere.
The upside is I’ve just walked their dog and obtained lots of free lithium ion batteries. Some still in vapes. I wonder if I can do something with the heating elements too…
Electronics nerds of mastodon. Is wiring a bunch of these (I thought Li-Ion but might actually be Li-Po) batteries in parallel and charging them as a unit a bad idea? Does it matter if one is of larger capacity for example?
My grandma died a few weeks ago and while we are up in Essex visiting my parents, we have spent some time rescuing some things from my grandma and grandpa’s house.
It’s funny the things I have memories attached to, from spending time with my grandpa in his little workshop room as a child.
Some of the stuff is just random like the unused 150w Sainsburys lightbulb from who knows when and the 90s Ford keyring, but the multimeter, magnifying glasses and stopwatch particularly hold memories.
@miki Possibly. He’s selling a couple of MS surface tablets and a hifi all with no description and super vague titles. He doesn’t know anything about what he has one way or another.
@cablespaghetti I got a Rockstar (an actually good Lightning plus MiniJack dongle in one) for about $15 off Allegro (Polish eBay / Amazon). The original price was four times that. I did some digging on where it come from, aand the seller was a "pawn shop" that specialized in taking over warehouses of bankrupt companies, and then selling the contents quickly.
Can someone who knows radio things please explain to me why once every couple of weeks I go from being able to pick up no #Meshtastic nodes to loads as far away as 36 miles?
Does 868MHz have the ability to bounce off clouds or something? It seems to happen for a few hours and then nothing (although always a weak signal).
@cablespaghetti higher frequencies are less effected by the ionosphere, but what could be likely is someone on higher ground has turned on their node, or someone is walking on hills, etc as it just needs one higher up node to be reached, and it lights up an area around it for 20 km or more.
We're encouraging our users to keep their nodes turned on otherwise you have the issue with there is no-one around, and suddenly later there are 10 nodes seen.
Tomorrow I shall be managing a team of three people, looking after two sick children and migrating multiple applications between Kubernetes clusters. Wish me luck Internet!
I’ve just had an email that my energy bill direct debit is increasing again to £138 a month! I need to do something about our power usage… 😭
What do others use, is this just me?
At 25p/kWh when nobody is here we’re using about £1.30 per day of electricity which is about 5kWh. That will be mostly my “homelab”.
The rest is contributed to by the fact the washing machine and tumble dryer are on most days because of the kids. An average day is around £2.50-£3.00 just in usage (10-12kWh).
@mansr I was once like you. It was an inexpensive time. 😆
I have all kinds of power hungry things in the house that come with the family. However the homelab, tariff and to some degree when I turn the appliances on are in my control so I suppose I’ll focus on those.
@cablespaghetti I could reduce somewhat the amount of power used by always-on computers, but it would involve buying new stuff and some work. The rest is hard to do anything about. Somehow, I doubt that telling the girlfriend she can't take a shower would go down particularly well. (I'm not complaining, for the record.)
In dodgy GPU adventures, I concluded that the firmware on it before was probably mining optimised.
I’ve flashed three firmwares today, one POSTed but didn’t boot, one booted but had even worse performance than the one that came on it and the latest one won’t even POST. Oh and the HDMI port that was non functional has fallen off now. 🤣
I’ll try and unbrick it later on as the system does seem to at least boot up…just with no display output.