Assuming you like the features systemd provides, wouldn’t the community just keeping a non-verified fork of systemd be easier than swapping it out entirely?

No healthcare tho.

I stopped giving them my money when they helped overthrow democracy. Just acquire their content overseas…

I’m not a ROM developer but I had a Motorola phone and I could see why maybe it would have been ignored for custom ROMs, it had a few non-standard features that were great when using the phone, but I think a pain to support, it had a little touchpad in the bottom center that you could swipe your thumb on to do ‘gestures’ in android like back, recent apps, home, etc. I really liked it but its another weird feature you have to keep working when you’re supporting the phone after the manufacturer stopped providing updates.

That’s awesome! Can you describe your set up for vibe coding this? I’d like to take a look at porting postmarketOS linux, or ubports to some phones I have laying around.

That’s awesome! Can you describe your set up for vibe coding this? I’d like to take a look at porting postmarketOS linux, or ubports to some phones I have laying around.

Oh great, so there’s should be an economic collapse and housing crash right around the corner!

Nice job! I had a fun one 2 winters ago, the glue on the pressure sensor switch just failed, I’ve never heard of this happening before. (Admittedly I’m not reading stuff about gas furnaces daily, but still…) The black piece and the white piece separated in the pic.

So the gas turns on, and the fan starts speeding up and there’s a pressure switch I guess to make sure there’s gas flowing, and the fan is blowing before igniting and starting the whole reaction, and since the switch wasn’t working, it wouldn’t ignite.

I tried to re glue the 2 plastic halves back together but the glue wasn’t holding, so I just zip tied the hell out of the thing, and its been working great for 2 years so far…

Wellllllll,

I’ve upgraded the same installation from ubuntu 16.04-24.04 but there was a problem with DNS at one point that I had to fix somewhere between the upgrades, but now I can’t remember if the problem was with LTS version or not. I jumped off at one point and upgraded to one of the non-LTS versions, then went back to LTS after having some problems with package versions, installing some software.

The older I get, the more it seems like the answer to life’s hardships are ‘just make more money’ and I’m just so exhausted of navigating a world where this is the necessary mindset to survive…

Literally everything keeps getting more expensive all the time and its constant. Need to repair something? House/apartment/car/computer/phone/body??? That’s gonna cost ya! Need to eat? That’ll cost ya! Wanna relax?? Netflix/vacation/staycation?? whoops, that’ll cost ya!

I’m tired boss.

My workflow now has my machine connected to my displays 24/7, but years ago I had a workflow where I would take my work machine home with me and bring it back in the morning and connect it to a dock. I got so fed up with all the windows piling into the ‘main’ monitor and not remembering their locations, that I wrote a script using some tool I can’t remember now, that i’d set to a shortcut key, and it would throw the currently in focus window to the opposite monitor. Made it really fast to get to my working state where I wanted stuff. It wouldn’t work today because it was exploiting features of the X window system, so I doubt it would work in Wayland.

Is the steam machine a normal ATX design? I have their original Steam Machine made by Dell, the Alienware Alpha, and it was a custom laptop motherboard with laptop sized SODIMM slots.

I also wasn’t suggesting using his old laptop ram for the new machines because its a different DDR version, either 3 or 4, i don’t know how old it is. But I have an extra ddr5 laptop I could give him ram from, if he got a bare bones steam machine.

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Yeah, seems like it uses SODIMM slots

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/hands-on-with-steam-machine-valves-new-pcconsole-hybrid

They probably should do this, just to get the thing sold. Normal users may not have any ddr5 ram laying around or machines they can strip it from, but there’s a subset of geeky users who do. My friend is looking for an upgrade from his aging gaming laptop, and I’m trying to help him plan out what the buy next, it would be great if I could just recommend the steam machine, as I have extra ddr5 ram to give him, but I have no idea when it’ll actually ship and how much it’ll actually cost in the end.

Huh, I feel better about my recent Latitude 5450 purchase then, damn. I didn’t realize we were soldering on WiFi chips now too. (In addition to ram soldering thats been going on for a while now)

The fun thing is, most of the people I know haven’t read 1984, they have no idea what we’re in for. Oh they know its vaguely about a dystopian society, but they can’t wake up each morning read the headlines and point to the exact page in that book the headline came from, so they can’t seem to see what’s coming tomorrow.

Fun. Fucking. Times.

I’m not defending how this was written, but they were clearly reinforcing how the person was unidentifiable from the students point of view.

“They didn’t know he was with the police? How??”

“Well he was unidentifiable.”

“What??”

“He was in plain cloths, how would anyone in the public, who doesn’t already know what the person looks like, identify him as part of the police?? Also why would a member of the police put a child in a choke hold, in addition to not identifying themselves??”

“Oh. Yeah, I guess you’re right”

Ah Tesla… I too attempt to accomplish tasks by being a leader and going completely insane.

Can I get a “support the troops”!.. /s

Love me some black sails. This will probably spur a rewatch.

Chiming in to say: I’ve had issues in the past where the WiFi router was factory resetting itself and it turned out this can happen if the power supply isn’t powerful enough for the device. In this case, I think I had gotten the WiFi router 2nd hand from Goodwill or something, and the provided power supply fit in the port, and it had the same voltage, but was an amp underpowered, instead of being something like 12volts 3.5amps, the plug was supplying 12volts 2.5amps, and I guess everything was fine until the unit needed more power (likely from routing high amounts of traffic, or more WiFi units connected)

I had no idea factory resetting could be the result of something like this so I was at a loss for a while until I found the info online.

So: check to make sure that

1. The power supply matches what the unit is requiring, and if it is,

2. If you have another power plug that matches the barrel jack size, volts and amps, try using that one in case the power supply itself is going bad.