I’ve built a system for sharing confidential files to customers so that we get to know where they get downloaded to and alerted if something is fetched to more than one location. Had to deal with MS ‘preview’ accesses in that context. Any wild guesses what triggers my return 444 clause 😁

Here’s one who swapped out Gnome apps on the desktop for Cosmic’s. Niri does windowing though. It kind of stuck, though on the laptop I still have Gnome apps and Niri.

Cosmic seems very slow but consistent in its development. Recently it got the ability to rename folders attached to the file manager side panel, been waiting for that since the switch 😂 Apps are snappy and stable though.

Looks like a Windows mockup running on the ZX Spectrum. Highly meta 😅

Camel Boots sure have evolved.

Let’s also remind that at least Helix the very good editor automatically runs bash stuff through Shellcheck if you have it installed, while you type. It’s been amazingly useful and educational. I write a lot of bash at work and have learned many finer details from Shellcheck’s hints.

It even does the Clippy thing. I’m piping something into a sed s/…/… and it tips ‘try ${variable//search/replace} instead’.

My vote on this too. Had a Surface Go 1, small battery but elsewise superb. Got a 3rd gen, absolutely perfect until one day it wouldn’t charge off USB-C anymore. Sold that and returned to the 1st gen I stii had (all accessories are compatible), and it’s still serving just fine as a ‘quick errands’ machine. Both work out of the box with Arch. Battery life is good enough with TLP and extreme powersaving.

On Sway:

This goes in Sway’s config…

output HEADLESS-1 {
	pos 5120,0
	mode 1920x1080@20Hz
	bg ~/tausta_kuva fill
}

And this alias starts wayvnc.

alias RuutuVNC='swaymsg create_output && nohup wayvnc 0.0.0.0 5900 >/dev/null &'

After that, connect the VNC client on the tablet to port 5900 on the machine and sail the mouse cursor over to it when selecting the screen to share.

There must have been a config for wayvnc somewhere, but I can’t find it. I don’t need to use this anymore after switching from a dual portrait setup to a dual LG DualUp setup, so that my screens are now pretty much square and the right way around. On the dual portrait setup, my screenshare would show up sideways in landscape :D

I have funky screen configurations too. What I’ve done is setup a headless screen that I view over VNC on a tablet and share that. On Wayland wayvnc can do this.

Thanks! Took a browse and it looks like 8.04 was the last release with a 32-bit version.

Nothing much – dd, support for ext3 which was the style at the time, and whatever the wired Ethernet in that old thing is. Sshfs would be nice.

No need for a graphical environment. One thing that might be broken is the graphics adapter, since the machine supposedly boots every time, but once it gets into the display manager, it freezes. I figured if I keep it in text mode, it might stay up long enough for making a disk image. I haven’t yet got on with the operation, so I don’t know what the machine has.

I watched a livestream of one run and that was such an awesome thing to see. Though I’d heard some local hams call it ‘the steam engine’ - bit of a disappointment that it ran with an electric motor after all 😁

Say timedatectl and you can be sure 😊

Very nice! Thank you for sharing 👌 I’d imagine the width of the J will vary with tuning? In any case for 70 cm this design would be the thing to go for.

@fullsquare@awful.systems The antenna I was looking for: The Super-Elastic Signal Stick ™. https://signalstuff.com/products/st-bnc/

I’d love to noodle about with Haiku, MorphOS and such, but being hopelessly hooked on tiling window managers (Niri particularily), I’m just stuck on unixes…

You got me thinking about a roll-up yagi: elements laminated on something that can be rolled up lengthwise and flown like a flag, but with channels at the top and bottom edge that take something to stiffen the ‘flag’ :)

Will definitely also revisit the J-pole design. Come to think of it, so far the only store-bought antennas I have are on the car. Perhaps a little bit of ethos should be applied here – only DIY antennas for HAM activities. As for the radio, I’m going to try to never charge the battery on anything but the solar panel, so that all of my operating will be independently powered :D Right now it’s on a charger though, to get it to full capacity before the package is finished.

Thank you for the inspiration!

Thank you for a wallop of info :D That’ll take a while to take in.

I’m no stranger to making antennas, been on CB for a while and have built the usuals. I’ve now taken down the CB half-wave dipole and plan to use the nice hangable balun for future portable HF endeavours. Don’t know yet what bands I’d like to have available at home, figured I’d sniff around first :)

The particular antenna I was asking about is something I couldn’t DIY, it’s proabaly made by laminating stuff together. I guess I’ll try to find the Youtube vid again. I’m of course going to be all over the bands, but it’d be nice to have a quick option for 70 cm.

Plenty of people have: works 😊

Not the greatest; they need time to mature, so often the versions from a couple of years back are more palatable.

If you go with Arch, just sudo pacman -S pro-audio realtime-privileges ; sudo usermod -aG realtime your-user and get rocking (installs everything).