Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2023
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=> Thinkpad thermal paste replacement
I live in a refurbished Thinkpad household. I use an X220 as my "daily driver" (lately it's sometimes been more like a "weekly driver", but whatever), while my wife has an X230. The X230 has been struggling against pretty severe overheating issues for a long time now. It doesn't get hot enough to cross any alarm thresholds, triggering a shutdown or anything like that, but it routinely gets way too hot to comfortably use on a lap. So, I finally took advantage of recent holiday downtime to replace the thermal paste on both CPUs and clean the fans out with compressed air. This was by far the most substantial laptop maintenance work I've done. Back in the Good Old Days (TM) of IDE and ISA and PCI, when RAM capacity and CPU clocks were strictly Megaunit affairs, I knew pretty well what I was doing when it came to PC internals, and my teenage bedroom often resembled one of those iconic scenes from Serial Experiments: Lain, but it's been a looong time and I'm well and truly out of the loop, hardware-wise. I didn't become a laptop user until quite late in life, and so I've just never done anything other than replace hard disks or RAM.
I've had this little Eink "development" device, the M5Paper, for a while now and it has mostly been relegated to the fridge as a weather forecast dashboard and lately it's just been in the drawer. I had high hopes that someone (not me, I'm not that smart) would develop some sort of multipurpose firmware that could do various useful things like reading text of different sorts and maybe some other PIM type stuff. That has not happened unfortunately and I was starting to consider selling it on to someone that can actually you know, develop things. Then I was going through my github stars and looking at the recently updated repos to see if anything interesting had happend with any of the projects I follow there when I saw this diy-esp32-epub-reader project. I have no recollection of finding this before or starring it. Maybe it was not very far along when I first discovered it so it left my brain rather quickly? Well I flashed it and it turns out it is quite serviceable as a super basic ereader! I mean really, really basic but it does get the primary job done of reading epubs and it fits in a pocket very nicely.
Ok, I will not spend a lot of time on this. I just want to say I agree with Sandra. The Gemini mentions proposal just feels like another stepping stone to something overly complex and the whole beauty of Gemini was simplicity.
=> Gemini mention, an ongoing discussion
It is already past 1am here, so for once I'm going to try to be concise for real :]. This post is a continuation of a discussion about gemini mention and a response to Sean's post called «�Thoughts on an implementation of Gemini mentions�»[1] as I think there are a few misunderstanding of the RFC requirements.
=> In which I slag on the Gemini mentions proposal for half an hour
I don’t wanna implement mentions. It’s breaking something that already worked. We already had aggregators or email or just the faith that people are reading their friends’ capsules (or just skimming it, when it comes to firehoses like mine).
This is what’s been so teeth-pulling about Gemini. Always getting more homework dumped in our laps. Specs upon specs upon specs for their own sake. Not into it. I’ve said many times that Gemini is enworsening, not ameliorating, the reckless, infinite scope of web browsers. We were drowning in specs so please don’t thrown us an anchor made of even more specs to save us. We’ll only drown even more.
=> “The street finds its own uses for things.”
I'm not familiar with the “was a bee and a half” idiom, but I suspect it means something like “annoying,” given the context. And if supporting Gemini was “annoying” then why even continue with it? The issues brought up, like the lack of per-page language support, were found by people trying to use Gemini, finding issues, and solving the issues. It would have been easy for most of the issues to be ignored, thanks to Gemini's “simplicity of implementatin über alles.” That would not have been a good idea long term, and thus, Gemini gets complex.
And Gemini mentions aren't mandatory, just like not every website supports webmentions [3]. Don't like it? Don't bother with it. Taken to the limit, “I really hope does not happen” applied to Gemini means Gemini doesn't exist (and there are plenty of people who questioned the concept of Gemini).
=> RocketFeed: Gemfeed to Atom Converter
I'm not sure how many people out there on gemini are subscribing to atom feeds vs plain old gemini feeds, but I spent part of today writing a quick program to get an atom feed from a gemfeed. I'm now using it to generate the atom feed of my posts from my log index page.
=> How to boot on a BTRFS snapshot
I always wanted to have a simple rollback method on Linux systems, NixOS gave me a full featured one, but it wasn't easy to find a solution for other distributions.
Fortunately, with BTRFS, it's really simple thanks to snapshots being mountable volumes.
=> Thoughts on an implementation of Gemini mentions
The other day [1] I didn't have much to say about the Gemini Mentions [2] proposal. Now that I've implemented it for my Gemini site (the code [3] has been upated extensively since the other day), I have more thoughts [4].
First, having the location locked to/.well-known/mentionworks fine for single-user sites, but it doesn't work that well for sites that host multiple users under a single domain. Alice who has pages undergemini://example.com/alice/and want to participate with Gemini mentions. So might Dave undergemini://example.com/dave/. Bob, who has pages undergemini://example.com/bob/doesn't care, nor does Carol, undergemini://example.com/carol/. How to managegemini://example.com/.well-known/mentionswhere half the users want it, and the other half don't? Having the ability to specify individual endpoints, say with a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script, would at least let Alice and Dave participate without having to bug theexample.comadmin to install a service under a single location.
=> emulation part 2 - a beginner's guide
ay mates, lelkins here. today i'll show you the basics of emulation. i wanted to be a little cheesy with a "so you have waited for the limited wisdom i have" introduction but i am not good enough with words to do that.
please note that this is a beginner's guide (as the title suggests!) so there won't be any cool stuff like widescreen hacks, texture pack usage or any cool stuff (except internal resolutions cause i found those out), i am just trying to make classic games run on the computer. yes, i'll help out a little with android stuff too, there's not much but you can still play a large number of titles and consoles there. this highly depends on your specs, as games from the 8-bit era to the 16 bit era will most likely work on craptops. games from 64 bit consoles may work on medium spec machines as people were able to play mario 64 on windows xp with project64 back in the day, but i never dabbled on psx titles at the time.
For a couple of months at this point, I've begun to learn to read Cyrillic, specifically the Russian alphabet. Currently, I can comprehend everything written in Cyrillic, although not at a speedy pace. At long words I usually stutter, reading in chunks of about 7 to 8 letters.
I know some very basic Russian by this point, although I'm focusing more on getting to read Cyrillic at a good pace, then learning the language. It's different for sure, besides being odd coming from a Latin-based alphabet. Whenever I'm tired, my brain just reverts to Latin and mixes the alphabets up, the end result being quite funny.
=> Living without a clock - day 3
This is currently day 3 of my experiment, here are my observations so far.
I still find myself occasionally trying to guess what's the time, although I stop myself from doing that.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible to avoid all clocks per se, unless you go live in a forest.
I like that I no longer focus on the time itself, even if I have a clock available, and just do the task at hand, even if that's relaxing.
A clock is very good for keeping a schedule. It's hard to live without a clock if you have a strict self-imposed time-based schedule, such as going to sleep or pills. I find myself taking an occasional glimpse at a clock in order to be sure I fit in my schedules accordingly.
. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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