..Thanks. I found their wiki. The flashing instructions were not in the github page, and I have the 'full' model, so the SD card is not exposed. I guess I'll try to do it with the reset button. Is the github repo now fully open sourced? Or do I need to install a different image in order to be the complete FOSS version?
Thanks!
"full debian install"...not sure I'd call it that. Seems apt repo is missing any chances of adding DE related packages. So maybe not full blown debian. It might have a limited repo.
I'd like to be able to test installing a full DE, but I made the mistake of getting only the 128GB model and so now I have always free storage issues 😅
Seafile as a Google Drive/Dropbox replacement. You can self host but they also offer paid accounts I think.
Thanks! That's a bit more helpful. Is there a guide explaining each part and how to install these?
I'm...not sure your link works correctly. It just takes me to the main page just like https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM.
Yes...and hope/assume that the installed update is the latest one on the list. Because again there's no indication of this on the notification about what your phone just did. Again, the way grapheneos communicates it just ran an update is about the worst I've seen on any OS/distro of any kind. Maybe PS4 and their 'system stability' non-information might be even worse, but at least that's something you could check on the spot within the update itself. There's a complete disconnection between what your phone does and what the information about what it just did might be. You need to go find it and hope you find the correct one.
Yeah. A lot more than receiving a random notification "ah btw your phone updated and stuff. Go figure out elsewhere whatever we just did".
NanoKVM - What's the status?
Hi guys! What's the status of the Sipeed NanoKVM FOSS image? I was subscribed to the thread, and I even saw Jeff Geerling's comments. Eventually they claimed the whole image was open source, and left it at that. If you go now to their github, the last published image is from February, v1.4..0. But everyone talks about the last upgrade to 2.2.5? In fact, if I connect my NanoKVM, it does detect that update, but I don't think it's the fully open sourced version? Is this correct?
Anyone can provide a bit more detail on what's going on? Should I manually flash v1.4 that you can download from the repo? And if so...how do I do it?
Thanks!
Just revisiting this, as I didn’t have time to try reopening the case until today - busy week! I swapped The NVMEs between M2B_CPU and M2C_SB. I did nothing else here. But after a couple of suspends (a quick one, and then the automatic one when I leave the PC overnight), neither of the drives has gone offline. At least…for now.
Just revisiting this, as I didn't have time to try reopening the case until today - busy week! I swapped The NVMEs between M2B_CPU and M2C_SB. I did nothing else here. But after a couple of suspends (a quick one, and then the automatic one when I leave the PC overnight), neither of the drives has gone offline. At least...for now. (just make sure they're mounted by their UUID in fstab, not their /dev assignation, to avoid trouble when doing the swap).
Just revisiting this, as I didn't have time to try reopening the case until today - busy week! I swapped The NVMEs between M2B_CPU and M2C_SB. I did nothing else here. But after a couple of suspends (a quick one, and then the automatic one when I leave the PC overnight), neither of the drives has gone offline. At least...for now.
I mean for split screen I'd be hooking it up to a TV. It's too tiny for 4 ppl to cram their heads and try to figure what's going on. Thanks!
Still pissed at Counterpart :(
While I think they nailed Dina, I feel Abby looks a bit skinny. Like, in the game she's referred often as "built like a tank", "big as a mule"....and then you see this skinny little girl in the series...Not sure how well she'll fit onto her character.
Not exclusives anymore. And since Sony PC releases are easy to find on your regular eyepatch places, these days it would be rather easy to give it a shot. That said, I'm intending to buy both on some sale, just like I got a second time the Nathan Drake series (I already had them back in the PS4, I just love all the Naughty Dog games).
You might have saved him from a rather...traumatic experience right on the next chapter :)
Thanks a lot! How many split-screen players are allowed? Only two, or does it go up to 4?
I'd just install another OS to begin with. But again, I'd reaaally like it to be GrapheneOS. And then again, Pixels also come with all that crap (and much more) enabled by default.
Thanks! Second time I see it recommended, I'm definitely getting this one.
Good couch co-op/multiplayer games?
Hi guys!
Soon I'll be traveling and visiting family. I'd like to be able to hook my Steam Deck to their TV and let their kids have a rip at couch multiplayer games allowing up to 4 simultaneous players. The good ole classic WiiU Mario Kart is there and been played until exhaustion by now, so I'd be happy if I had more titles (either SD-compatible or just plain emulated) at the ready if they wanted to try.
Thanks!
NMVE offline after suspend
So...I just purchased a brand new WD black SN850X 2TB to store a bunch of games. I installed it on my last NVME slot available no my motherboard, M2C_SB, which I understand doesn't directly plug into the CPU but onto the motherboard's southbridge. Not sure if this has any reason for the issue. So, the problem is...whenever the PC suspends (which, by the way, it can go suspended even in the middle of a file transfer...not sure why KDE won't block that)...anyway, after a suspension, that drive is missing. Checking any partition manager, it shows the NVME drive is still somewhat there, but with no partitions listed. There's an error 'partition xxxx is not properly aligned". It seems my only option is a reboot. After the reboot, the drive is fine, it's properly mounted, shows correctly the partition in the disk manager, and runing a check finds no errors. Mind you, there's 3 NVME drives plugged, only this last one is giving me headaches after suspension.
...what's causing this? And how ca
Question about cryptsetup, LUKS and auto-mounting an SD at boot
Hi guys!
I have a Surface laptop, which I want to use again with a microSD as external storage. Since this can be easily pulled off from the laptop, I want it to be encrypted. This was encrypted before, but eventually the SD failed, and I'm trying to recreate what I had...without much success.
Steps so far... Create the LUKS volume:
#cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda
Format in ext4 (I believe it was in Exfat with the old SD?):
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#cryptsetup open /dev/sda encrypted #mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/encrypted
That should do it regarding the volume creation. Now comes what I can't quite get working. I created a pw txt file within my home folder:
/home/user/EncryptedSD.txt
Then I refer to this via /etc/crypttab at boot:
encrypted /dev/sda /home/user/EncryptedSD.txt
And my /etc/fstab should attempt to mount this on the spot:
/dev/mapper/encrypted /media/SDCard ext4 auto,nofail,rw
However, as this is set, I'm being prompted halfway through boot for the passwor
Can I create/spin LXC with virt-manager or something similar?
Hi guys!
The same way I hold some VMs for some apps I might not trust well enough to share with the rest of my OS/partition, I'd like to be able to do the same, but with LXC instead, possibly reducing overhead (and perhaps increasing ache in the head). I was wondering if the GUI Virt-manager can do this? It seems after installing libvirt-daemon-lxc, libvirtd, libvirt-client-qemu I'm able to connect to the LXC daemon in my system. However, I'm not sure how to follow a similar process as perhaps Proxmox, to build a, say, fully blown ubuntu LXC from a template. How should I do this?
Thanks!
Win10 taskbar in Win11?
Hi guys! I’ve been pushed on my work machine to use Windows 11. I’m not loving too much the taskbar, which won’t allow to have 2 rows of windows, and the single row of tasks gets a ‘…’ button as soon as it’s getting a bit crowded. This makes it very difficult to find your app. I don’t want to combine tasks, and I’d very much prefer to have two rows of tasks. Is there any trusted (FOSS) way of doing this? Seems there’s no easy registry key to just enable it these days.
Performance tanking during swapping
Hi guys!
I have what I'd consider a beefy gaming PC. AMD 7700 CPU, 32GB RAM, 7800XT 16GB, NVMe 1TB for OS, mSATA SSD 2TB for storage/games.
So...whenever I get a while using the computer, with a bunch of windows open, say firefox taking 4GB of RAM, total for everything a bit over 16GB...I'm prone to get a whole system slowdown/freeze, which can take a few full minutes until it settles. I can see the storage red led on the whole time without blinking, so it really looks like swapping.
However sometimes I don't see movements in the system process viewer, in usage from RAM/swap, I'd imagine those graphs would change if the data in swap has changed.
Swapping is set in the mSATA, taking 8GB, so I reckon that migth not be the fastest. Still, that's an SSD. I'm not sure how can I check/troubleshoot whatever is tanking my computer performance?
Tutanota / Mailbox.org?
Hi guys!
I'm looking for a Proton alternative. So far I've seen these two recommended. I was wondering what are the pros/cons of each? Seems Tutanota offers more bang for the buck in mailbox size etc, but I'm not sure. I'd also like to have a better integration with Android, because Proton's email/calendar apps suck big time.
Thanks!
Stupid question about steam packages on sale
Hi guys!
So, I always have this dumb question about buying expanded packages on Steam when there's a sale. Let's see this sale for Anno 1800:
I can see the base package first, with a neat 90% discount. Good. But What's included in the "Year 5 Gold Edition"? Where can I see more details about what this package includes? Same for the "Definitive Annoversary". At least for a bundle, I can click and see what's in it. But for the other ones I have no idea how to check what each one includes.
Help?
AI subtitle translation
Hi guys!
I have some subtitles in French, which I'd like to batch-translate. Surely I could use gtranslate or similar, but the end result is usually...crappy, always losing context from sentence to sentence, making the overall result garbage. I was wondering if an AI such as GPT4All could handle context in the conversations better, and give a possibly better output. But I'm not sure how to make it batch process a bunch of files and output new ones. Would you guys know a suitable AI that could do this?
Thanks!
AMD-compatible AI generation
Hi guys! I've tried quite a few months back Fooocus for AI image generation, and while it kinda worked well, it tended to have trouble figuring more than one person on the drawing (ie, man and woman dancing my end up with any combination of men/men, woman/woman, or just a random group dance etc). Moreover, I just found out that this project is just in maintenance mode.
So...What's the cool software for AI generation/Stable diffusion etc? Preferably AMD compatible, as I have a 7800XT.
Thanks!
Xiaomi Air purifier...Is it offline?
Hi guys! I'm considering purchasing a Xiaomi air purifier 4 (possibly). I wanted to make sure I can use from the Home Assitant app, while the router's firewall blocks its online connectivity outside the home network. Do the xiaomi devices connected in HA need online connectivity in order to continue to work?
Also...many of their wristbands series for example need at least to connect once in order to get an auth token that you can then use on gadgetbridge. Do you need any kind of shenanigans to get the purifiers to work on HA?
FOSS centralized patch management?
Hi guys! I was wondering whatever solution you guys might use to check/update your servers/containers? I'd like not having to depend on any cloud, something running locally would be great.
Thanks!
FOSS contacts storage/sync?
So...yeah. As I'm moving away from google, I'd like to store my contacts elsewhere. I have proton (I know, I know), but this is also not great, since their system isn't too android-friendly. Which system (maybe self-hosted) would you suggest to easily sync/backup your contacts?
Thanks!
Molly-Foss crashes on start on GrapheneOS
Hi guys! I'm trying to check Molly-Foss as alternative to Signal. I installed it from its F-Droid repo. When I tap to turn on database encryption, I am prompted for the passphrase. After I set it...it just closes/crashes. Opening the app again, i'm back to the option to turn it on and set a password. What should I do?
Slightly overwhelmed with Tdarr...help?
Hi guys!
I'm trying to re-compress a few TV shows that are mostly animation to some animation-friendly codec (HEVC 10bit, maybe even AV1), to reduce the storage it takes on the NAS (I'm looking at you, One Piece/Simpsons!). I've used handbrake with full folders to handle whole seasons of a TV show before, but that was a bit frustrating to run on my desktop PC, hence the install of Tdarr. However it's a bit...overwhelming with all the options, without quite hinting what each one does. I'm adding a...library. Ok, what's the library? Is it say, an -arr full TV Shows library? Or should I add one library per TV show (custom specific settings for each one?). How do I work...with the transcode options? I see it's all drag-drop, but I'm not sure of all these options.
I'd like to transcode to say, HEVC 10bit, reduce perhaps audio with Opus or AAC, and keep same tracks and subs. How would I go about this?
THanks!
Help to troubleshoot...Freeze before desktop
Hi guys! I have KDE Neon 6.2.3 running on my Surface Pro 7+, and up until now it's been running rather smoothly, for years. But today I seem to be unable to fully boot anymore on normal mode. Linux will get stuck on the KDE spinning gear, with the gear frozen. And it becomes unresponsive, to open alternative consoles with control+alt+Fx, or even control+alt+del. The only thing that works is a force shutdown by holding the power button.
I tried with a previous kernel, with the same results (current is linux-image-6.10.10-surface-1, I have a generic 6.8.0-49, but it also freezes). I can boot in safe mode. It opens a different login screen, and after a failed attempt of opening lxde, it fails back to my usual KDE session, in safe graphics mode.
What can I test? How can I see what failed at boot?
Nginx...two domains, same sites?
Hi guys!
I'm considering moving away from duckdns, as it's becoming increasingly unreliable. I'd like to check some other free dynamic DNS alternatives (I'm open to suggestions!).
My idea would be to have the server run under two different domains, but both directing to the same services. Is this possible? What shoudl I change in nginx in order to answer to two different domains/names?
Thanks!
DuckDNS alternatives
Hi guys!
Just that...would you recommend any decent free Dynamic domain that is well regarded privacy-wise?
DuckDNS is becoming rather unreliable and prone to failure.
Thanks!