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Frater Mus

@ fratermus @lemmy.sdf.org

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Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise

  • A quest to uncovering the origins of phở

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  • uncovering the origins of phở

    dunno the origins but I can tell you the destination is my belly on a regular basis. At least when I can afford it; prices have gone up substantially in the places I visit.

  • What software do you use to aggregate email in a single interface?

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  • Evolution.

  • Recommended mini linux device for streaming to TV

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  • I'm running MythTV front/back on a Pi4 with one of those generic handheld keyboards. Power consumption is important to me because I live off solar power in a campervan.

    If the Pi4 died tomorrow I'd probably replace it with a ~NUC.

  • Fastest disk-space usage analyzer (for files), faster than ncdu?

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  • Ncdu

    I learn something new every day. I've been running du -a | sort -rn | head like some kind of animal. ncdu runs very fast on my systems and shows me what I want to see. Thanks!

  • All the troubles with Debian upgrade

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  • Do you think servers have it easy compared to personal computers? No pesky audio/video cards, bluetooth, etc…

    My server upgrade to Trixie had no issues. That's good because it's several thousand miles away on another continent.... My laptop had a few burps with ranger, jekyll, and autokey that required googling.

    my experience so far

    I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version

    Selection bias? I suspect Debian folks are more likely to notice problems and start looking for bug reports, talking about it, etc. Like my dorky blog entry above.

  • choosing a version of Linux for my mom

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  • I set up my ex-MIL with Mint and it worked fine. Also gave my 70-something father a Mint USB and he installed it on his own.

    I've used other distros for that purpose in the past but since they no longer exist I'm not listing them.

    She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

    I'd check to see if any proprietary software is required, if there is a linux or at least WINE-friendly version available. Hopefully it's all web-based so no proprietary stuff needed.

  • Repairing An Obscure Apple II Clone

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  • I remember the Franklin Ace but this is the first i've heared of the Mimic Spartan.

  • bashcrawl: learn Linux commands by playing a simple text adventure

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  • Neat concept. I got killed by the statue. :-/

  • Mac SE Restomod Has A Floppy Surprise

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  • my nickname in college was Floppy Surprise

  • What else to run on a RPi?

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  • I use my Pi 4B as a DVR for movies and OTA television (MythTV).

    There are other tools that handle playback better (OSMC/Kodi, etc) but Myth's configuration and handling of recording schedules is incredibly powerful. Conflict management works well and it can record multiple streams off the same tuner so conflicts are reduced in the first place.

  • ASCII Diagram, offline, Linux, FLOSS

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  • This sent me down a rabbit hole since it's something I've half-considering for a while. I prefer text configuration rather than GUI so I ended up installing graph-easy on my debian laptop:

    sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perl

    and made a first attempt to diagram the power setup in my campervan

    It's a perl module but the graph-easy wrapper makes it behave like any other CLI tool. cat or echo the config text to the wrapper and the graph pops out on STDOUT

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • Are you living on a space station? What is this shitload of power?

    Some of us live off-grid and make every Watt-hour we consume. So it may be that one man's fanciful bullshit is another man's daily life. For context, this is my 2,461st day offgrid.

    A whole 60 watts?

    Over the last 30 days I've averaged 2.01kWh/day, or an average constant consumption of 84w. All in. And that's on the high end for folks in similar use cases. In this scenario adding in another 60w would be significant (ie, impossible for my rig during winter months).

    As Sesame Street taught showed us it's a matter of perspective.

  • What would make you change distro?

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  • what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?

    Any meaningful difference that improves my use. I'm a pragmatist, not a distro zealot.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Why do you use the distro you use?

    I've used many distros over the years (and test spin up many in virtuals to see what they are like) but keep coming back to Debian. I also like vanilla ice cream.

  • Can the US government force Canonical and Red Hat to disallow downloads and development from non US countries?

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  • The US govt has done worse (cf. Phil Zimmerman)

  • Dont copy

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  • /me in Jr High had Nibbles Away ][ and a hole puncher...

  • I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too

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  • I loved my Palm devices.

  • Is the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 actually bad? Let's fix these to find out. | Adrian's Digital Basement

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  • IIRC (it's been a while) I played with a Sinclair being demo'ed at Kmart. Truly hated the keyboard. I wanted the TI 99/4a but it was ~$400. A few months later the 99/4a price crashed to $99 and the parents bought me one. Wrote my first BASIC programs on it, saved to cassette tape.

    About 10 years ago I found the 99/4A in storage. The KB was also terrible compared to any keyboard these days, but still better than the Sinclair to my young fingers. Def not knocking the Sinclair, talking about personal preference.

  • A good e-mail client for linux?

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  • 90% of the time I use web interfaces, but I often have spotty connectivity while boondocking. So I need a client that can get/send gmail POP3 in narrow windows of connectivity.

    I started with thunderbird but something (can't remember what) wasn't working well. Ended up with Evolution. It also syncs well to google calendar and google tasks.

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