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Spec5's Ranger Is an Espressif ESP32-Powered Ready-to-Run Meshtastic Communicator
  • $140 upcharge on a lilygo t-deck to pre fit it into a 3d printed case and add a battery seems absurd to me.

  • Thinking about buying more storage. Warn me of the lemons!
  • For 2.5" SSD I'd suggest a Samsung Evo or crucial mx500. These will top out at like 4TB afaik.

    For 3.5" spinner I'd suggest an enterprise class HDD. Specifically WD Gold or HGST. Look up the most recent backblaze drive failure report for some models known to last a while.

  • XPipe 9 comes with VNC, RDP, and SSH X11 support, a better SSH integration, terminal improvements, and many bug fixes
  • What are the chances of an official flatpak getting maintained so us lazy folk don't need to keep up with the GitHub repo/site for when updates drop?

    Edit: Also do you have any plans to add NX support?

  • Who of you guys are on an "Unknown" OS?
  • BSD, Haiku, Plan9, RiscOS, etc. Probably mostly BSD.

  • Unattended upgrades - daily sudo apt update?
  • Maybe just allow apt update specifically via the sudoers conf so you can cron job it to run without being prompted for user input, or just run it in cron as root.

  • Curious why custom antenna mod fried(?) radio channel output after 1yr
  • Possibly the antenna wasn't tuned correctly to the channel which you have the router configured to use so you had a higher swr than your radio frontend could handle eventually burning it out.

  • Distro for experienced Linux user
  • Debian is only as boring as you want it to be.

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • iMac G3

    wow, an operating system on a computer, sounds so improbable :P

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • Oh yeah, didn't even think about that. Isn't using userspace network pretty common these days anyway?

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • Actually was looking into this some more, and came across this article.

    https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/running-linux-on-a-thermostat/

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • It doesn't have as much to do with where the network stack is running, but that they're leveraging hardware offloading. Their CPUs generally aren't powerfull enough to switch packets at gigabit speeds let alone on many interfaces at gigabit or multi-gig speeds. Its by leveraging ASICs and maybe even some using FPGAs for hardware offload that they can switch packets at line rate. I understand how they do it, I still just find it kind of weird and cool.

    I didn't list HDDs as someone else had mentioned that already. I was just listing a few devices that weren't mentioned in other comments yet.

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • We had a fancy coffee machine at an old job that ran Linux. If I remember correctly it was a top of line cafection or zulay machine. One of the ones with a touch screen. Just booted off an SD card as well iirc so probably would have been pretty easy to hack on.

    I still find it weird that managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they'd need something closer to the metal but with the magic of HW offloading that's been a thing in enterprise for a while and OpenWRT even supports some consumer grade ones now.

    Some (probably most) ebook readers like the Kindle.

    Many newer cars.

    TI NSpire calculators.

    A slow cooker. https://www.linux.com/news/crock-pot-slow-cooker-wi-fi-smarts-hands/

    A cable modem. Specifically the Motorola SB6120 can. Maybe others too.

    WiFi enabled SD cards. https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD

    A dead badger. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-linux-on-a-dead-badger-users-notes/

    EDIT: Totally forgot about these 2 ham radios. You can run and access Linux on both of these. One is by design as its running on a Pi, the other via mod by R1CBU booting the OS from an SD card.

    sBitx v2: https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/sbitx-v2/

    Xiegu x6100: https://r1cbu.ru/index.php/home/radio-software/x6100

  • Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
  • Some of the smart thermostats almost certainly do. Also this one 100% does. https://hestiapi.com/

  • Underclock AMD GPU
  • Look up barrier instead

  • Sometimes less is more
  • echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger 🫣

  • One Generation Rule
  • Praise Bob

  • Now that mullvad has ended support for port forwarding, where should one go for P2P ?
  • Pretty certain I linked the new one. Shows created January 2022 and last updated May 2023.

    EDIT: Weird the last updated cell does show 2019, but looking at the docs metadata through Google drive shows Jan 2022 and May 2023. You may be right though, this could be stale.

  • sudo !!
  • You cann save another keystroke on that one by using home/end.

  • Now that mullvad has ended support for port forwarding, where should one go for P2P ?
  • Dude still seems to be updating this; though, there doesn't look to be a column detailing port forwarding. Maybe look into a few of these that look good?

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_o8QioqAILThKD04FYT95jI1siTOX5L/edit?pli=1#gid=1387289544