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glc

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#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming #Privacy #Cycling #ZXSpectrumNext #Amiga

Keeping my follower/following count low here. Public content is hashtagged.

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nivrig, to random
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Wondering if the MiniPC I got for NASv4 is broken or junk :/

I’m getting the same USB errors with this second external M2 enclosure as the first, but both work perfectly well on other machines.

Can’t get Windows installed on it either due to missing drivers.

The box can read flash drives all right though.

glc,
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@nivrig Very odd ,its as if it cant see the disk.
Im also suprised an M2 is not being mounted at /dev/nvmeX , although thats probably down to a usb/scsi controller.

anything interesting from
lsblk
or
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX

nivrig, to random
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Finally caved. New toy day.

glc,
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@nivrig nice buy bro.(ther)

nivrig, to random
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What sort of 1Tb SSD do they put in these for £40?!

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glc,
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@nivrig The m2 in mine is the only unbranded component that concerns me.

Prices have come down a lot though.

glc, to random
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My new PC. Beelink SER5, Ryzen 5560.

16gb Crucial memory and an Intel wifi/bt module underneath the m2(which is unbranded). There is also a 2.5 SSD mount in the case.

Fan is very quiet in normal use, but whines a little when gaming. The speeds are controlled in BIOS.
The systems using around 10-15w desktop and 25-35w gaming.

It shipped with a reasonably clean Win11 install, but I have wiped the drive and installed Debian12.5 in Efi mode. All hardware correctly detected.

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glc,
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@nivrig @10MARC I installed the witcher 3 on mine as a stress test, it surprisingly (roughly) keeps up with my xbox one .

If your not gaming at all, an N100 like K bought should perform pretty well.

I bought this from droix.co.uk , shipped from london within 24 hours. Ive had anbernic handhelds off them in the past

glc, to random
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MiniPc arrived, ill post more details on it later. Right now im trying out the bundled Windows11.

I hate this already after 2 hours, its downloading allsorts of junk, attempted a windows update and the machine got stuck preparing the update, now its "configuring some things" after a forced shutdown.

Going to get this updated, drive imaged and install a better OS.

glc,
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This is the day i realised Debian 12 is now easier to install and update than Windows 10/11. How the world has changed.

nivrig, to random
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Power saving thoughts.

Current NAS has four spinning drives.

I could move the single media drive contents to a SSD attached directly to the new VeroV player box I have.

The other three are on a RAIDZ (like RAID5) ZFS setup but I don't need the RAIDZ speed any more so a simpler RAID1 setup will do.

So with one of those N100 NAS I could drop some watts on the box itself and two spinny drives running 24/7.

Can recover most of the new drive costs selling the old ones.

glc,
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@nivrig I did a power/cost reduction project on data storage some years ago.
Things I discovered:

I was spending a lot of money and time replacing hard drives and powering them, on data I very rarely use.

I only actually need ~1tb live data accessible housewide.

Using tools like Rclone and Cryptomator i can fully (client side) encrypt cloud-synced stuff transparently, and access as a virtual drive.

Im now at single bay nas, nightly cloud backup and removable USB spinning rust for archival

glc,
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@nivrig I tend to go with a couple of drives, occasionally link them up through a mini pc to do a data sync/crc check overnight. 1 line rsync command

k, to random
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I’ve got a fat pipe (ffnar) to the house, so I figure I should really save my cash, stop self hosting everything on remote VPS’s, and get myself a little Linux machine with a load of disc space that can sit in my office.

So I bought a Firebat T8 off Ali Express. N100. 16G Ram. 512G disc.

IT IS FUCKING TIIIIINY

glc,
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@k I switched to self-hosted nextcloud a few years back, quickly discovered it was more work updating and maintaining it than I could be bothered with.

It is worth the experiment- for me it ultimately boiled down to I only used the Notes, gallery, contacts and files sync. My 2017 synology is doing a better job than my hosted nextcloud ever did.

glc,
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@k ah you are well aware of the quirks of it then. I vaguely remember us talking about hetzner years back, so figured you may have been using one of their maintained nextcloud plans

glc,
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@k good to hear, when i used it , it had 1 click updates, but almost always had to ssh in to finish the job or repair something.

PS just looked at the firebats. holy shit computers got cheap

nivrig, to random
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Half looking at upgrading my Windows PC, an ageing i5-7600. I fancied a SFF mini-PC, but the Intel N100/200 would be a mild CPU downgrade, and no option to fit a GPU. They use a lot less power but I don't use the PC that much really so that's a minor thing. Maybe a Ryzen 5 5700X (5800X uses more power) and upgrade the RAM to 32Gb DDR4-3200. I'll sit on it for a bit.

glc,
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@nivrig I have been looking at these also. The N100 based machines look good, but I am tempted to pay a bit more for something Ryzen based

https://droix.co.uk/product/beelink-ser5/

darth, to random
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Fear.

glc,
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@darth my favourite quote from the books:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Very relevant to what big tech is heading towards.

darth, to random
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Testing Mastodon from the command line using the program called "toot". Looks and functions very slick. Not that I expected it to not function, but there is one unexpected thing about it! See, as everyone else on Fediverse, I have been putting ALT text on my pictures in order to make this social media more accessible. However, by accessible I always thought of legally blind people. But now that I am in a CLI Mastodon program I came to fully appreciate everyone's effort on ALT texting. You rock.

glc,
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@darth I havent tried Toot, but have used @tut in the past on a raspberrypi.

Using cli with mastodon feels right at home for me, and I agree about Alt Text- it really makes me consider if I want to go the extra step of loading the photo (in most cases it just "evidences" the post, so i don't bother)

darth, to books
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Can someone help me decode something regarding #DUNE books? Please check this URL:

https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert-ebook/dp/B00B7NPRY8/

It says 892 pages in print* and it contains three books within:

  • dune
  • muad'dib
  • the prophet

Specifically I am asking about the #eBook version: Is this an abridged version or not? 892 pages seems a very low pint number for three #books, but everyone is saying that abridged books have that "feature" clearly marked.

I want to read original work of Frank Herbert, but in eBook format.

glc,
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@darth @ericdere I think it would have been better calling Dune,Muadib,TheProphet 'Acts' 1-3 (of book 1) instead of books 1-3.

Could definitely cause confusion with people new to the series, by the fact there's an actual book 2 (Messiah) and 3 (Children of Dune)

glc, to amiga
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Amiga games competitions during April on Twitch. #AMIGApril is organised by AmigaLive.

Check out the webpage for a list of streamers taking part, or to join in yourself.

https://www.amigalive.com/amigapril/

#amiga #retrogaming

darth, to linux
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Which one is the best (GNU) distribution?

glc,
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@darth The one you make yourself!

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

glc,
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@darth its a big job, i wouldnt do it for a production machine, but you will learn a lot!

glc,
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@darth i did the systemd build when that got popular in distros.
I needed to get used to it after years of InitD. Much had changed since i used to compile kernels manually on very old RedHat and Slackware builds!

jonn_blanchard, to random
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If you’re going to emulate a system, I’d recommend using a Raspberry Pi with a 3D printed case over buying a system made by the arses behind The400 mini

glc,
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@jonn_blanchard Is it known which emulator they used? It's inspired me to set up some Atari computer emulation on the pi5 (With Keyboard!)

retrotechtive, to amiga
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Do any #Amiga fans know why #WHDLoad games sometimes run oddly slow on an Amiga 4000 with an 060 in it? BFG9060 with fast RAM too.

I've tried disabling caches, doesn't seem to make any difference.

Wiz Quest for the Magic Lantern and Magicland Dizzy both do this - if I boot from the disk instead of using Workbench, they work fine.

glc,
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@retrotechtive theres been a bug report open for 3 years on magicland a4000.

Ive had similar behaviour in the past with james pond robocod. Whdload version caused issues on 68020+, fine from floppy or 68000 chip. (Real hardware and emulation) Almost like something was triggering a race condition maxing out the cpu in some configurations
https://www.whdload.de/mantis/view.php?id=4981

glc, to random
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@darth

https://2024.revision-party.net/events/timetable/

theres a link on the top bar for the LIVE streams at the weekend too

peter, to Java
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Well, after working for just over 19.5 years in the online games industry, I've been made redundant & today was my last day 😢

So, I'm going to take some time off to reset the brain and catch up with things around the house, mostly the garden, then start looking for a new job.

Not sure what to do yet, as I was a Senior #Java developer and the last few years #DevOps, but thinking more of #Golang as I've been doing more of that lately in Open Source projects.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-mount-2a417819/

glc,
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@peter Sorry to hear your news Peter. With summer approaching , some quality downtime to adjust, relax and plan ahead should hopefully work out well in the long run.

glc, to demoscene
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Exploring the ZXSpectrum Demoscene on my Next.

The Virtual TR-DOS site has disk compilations from each party, with a built in launcher, ASCII viewer and music player.

Wonderful way to explore years of party releases.

https://vtrd.in

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