phanto

joined 1 year ago
[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rook taking pieces was my favorite thing! We had it for the Amiga.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is a bit of a slog, but I have tailscale and rdclient running on an iplay mini 50. I have a SIM card in it, but I am on wifi 95% of the time, and it connects back to my desktop at home running Fedora. Not quite as good as being in front of it, but it's a pretty reliable workflow, and I can switch the same remote session to my laptop if I need more screen size.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Steam and Lutris work well! I can game on XFCE Mint just fine. I actually have an easier time of it than on a number of distros, thanks to the combination of flatpaks and the Ubuntu base. But, I am not "the kids".

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I checked, it's still there! (It doesn't append, it overwrites, so no, I just have a file with the current date and time accurate to within two minutes.)

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I did the hackiest, lamest thing back in the day... I had my client write the current date and time to a file on the share every two minutes as a Cron job... Kept it working for months! I saw it on a forum somewhere, tried it, and... Shocked Pikachu face I don't know if I ever disabled that Cron job! Haha!

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I've had two different unihertz models, and neither of them could stay on any wifi, and both of them dropped calls like crazy. I contacted customer support, and they 'offered' to swap for another exact same phone, if I paid to ship both ways, and I didn't mind having no phone for a month. Jelly 2, and Atom XL. The Atom was especially bad as it has a giant bloody antenna sticking out the top of it, and still no WiFi!

Avoid Unihertz.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does it give you anything? Can you select safe mode or nomodeset from the grub menu, or do you get no grub menu at all? I almost pulled the trigger on a used getac system a while back, but couldn't justify the cost. If you get it working, please tell me how it goes under Linux!

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This is actually a real problem... A lot of digital documents from the 90's and early 2000's are lost forever. Hard drives die over time, and nobody out there has come up with a good way to permanently archive all that stuff.

I am a crazy person, so I have RAID, Ceph, and JBOD in various and sundry forms. Still, drives die.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Commenting to register my interest.

I will confess that I was tempted to throw some snarky comment about Linux, but I got over the urge.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Love my Nextcloud. It's my go-to for half a dozen workflows. Screw OneDrive. Screw Office. Screw Spotify. Screw Airdrop. Screw Netflix. Screw Google Photos. Screw Google Calendar... NextCloud.

I have it on a bit better hardware than a Pi though.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ditto, except mine just died one day. I put it away for bed, woke up, flipped it open, Nada. Brick. I felt it was a bit slower than I'd like, but got pretty good battery life.

Really tempted to try a Musebook, based on Risc-V, because apparently I'm a sucker for punishment.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I did try that. Basically, if I doubled the memory I allocated, I gave it half again longer before it crashed, but it still crashed, eventually.

It's no big deal, this was last year, I may try again one day. Loving Searxng though!

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