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My automotive half can be found at https://weird.autos/@fxworks

Operating systems I'm "into" lately:

* Alpine Linux: https://alpinelinux.org
* FreeBSD: https://freebsd.org

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2026-09-24 21:34:21 GMT

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine Linux lately.
Does anyone have HEIC (i.e. Apple) formatted images working correctly under Alpine?
I've installed libheif, kimageformats and anything remotely libheif related in the repo but Gwenview still doesn't display HEIC images. Neither does Shotwell.
I installed Ristretto to compare and it also doesn't display HEIC images.
GIMP works as does Darktable.
Dolphin displays the thumbnails properly but the preview pane doesn't work.
Ideas? Kinda pulling my hair out and out of options.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #AlpineLinuxEdge #KDE #Plasma #Gwenview #libheif #HEIC #Apple #Ristretto #GIMP

2026-09-04 11:29:56 GMT

Latest thoughts on mobile devices...
* Done with Android. Google has killed any cachet it had with their recent developer registration and side loading BS. I won't waste any more time on Android messing around with embedded stuff for my projects.
* iOS phone that I currently own (13) will be my last. Apple is just as bad as Google, will leave this platform also, even if for the last 4-5 years it was a sort of pseudo-privacy respecting mobile safe space. It was all BS and is about to get worse.
* I really haven't used phone apps beyond Firefox (and now Waterfox and Librewolf since Firefox turned) in the set 10 years or so. Won't miss anything from this perspective. I've never trusted the platforms with my payment systems so I won't miss "tap phone to pay" either. CarPlay/AAuto is convenient but a huge privacy leak.
* My next phone will be something that takes calls/sms and can create a hotspot and does effectively nothing else; a decent camera that doesn't have AI BS ruining the images would be nice. Device suggestions appreciated.
* I'll probably start researching small, flip convertible, touchscreen laptops that can act as a tablet and pair it with the phone. The device needs to be able to run Linux and/or BSD (of course). The older Lenovo Tab 11 I have now is serviceable in the meantime until I find a decent lightweight convertible.
* Would consider a Linux phone but I don't care enough about this segment to put up with being a beta/gamma tester. Also, lot of money for an uneven and potentially bad experience.
* If we consider new cars a mobile device <wat!?> then I'm done with them as well. So much so that I recently bought a 2000 Volvo S70 5spd for my wife as a winter beater. No mobile telemetry there - unlike my son's new Toyota GR86.
* While navigating all this, boycotting U.S. tech/manufacturers.
* There's no fun/joy in any of this stuff any more. #RantyMcRantFace
Pretty tall order. Makes the further case for throwing the phone into the crusher and migrating from "digital man" to "analog man" and fleeing into the woods/workshop. Ha.
#Mobile #Android #ios #Apple #google #DigitalNomad #Linux #RunBSD #TMI

2026-09-02 11:22:58 GMT

Long shot...
Can anyone in eastern Ontario (Perth-ish) recommend a company for heritage barn repairs and renovation?
Stuff like this is a total blind spot for web search - keeps giving links for slick companies four or five hours away down near Kitchener. With so many farms around here there must be something local. SEO is a scourge.
#barn #renovation #Ontario #EasternOntario

2026-09-01 04:12:27 GMT

postmarketOS AI Policy:
"We forbid the use of generative AI tools in postmarketOS."
https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html
#postmarketOS #pmOS #AlpineLinux #AI #AIPolicy #Linux

2026-08-28 15:45:07 GMT

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I was actually looking for a TKL version at the store but they did not seem to have any. I haven't checked the manufacturer website yet to see if it exists.

2026-08-28 15:40:23 GMT

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As someone else mentioned, check used on FB Marketplace as well.
A lot of people have good intentions of doing photography and end up with really decent and recent camera kits languishing in their closet.

2026-08-25 17:27:53 GMT

Was at the "local" computer store last night (Canada Computers Kanata) and while searching for what I was looking for I stumbled across the keyboard display.
The keyboard I've been using for couple of years has been an e-waste thingy lying around from an old Dell pre-built. It's serviceable and perfectly fine but...
The Logitech G-something-or-other that I had before that was too expensive given the short lifespan it had so I never got around to replacing it with like-for-like.
Anyway, I saw a really cool looking "cheap and cheerful" Chinese doo-hickey and rolled the dice (DAREU EK106 Pro).
It has a great feel and seems like decent build quality for C$66. It feels better than the Logitech too (materials, design).
It's always hard to tell if brands you don't know in your local store are worth a damn but I give this brand and model a thumbs up. I really like it after pounding on it all morning.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/117/157/287/452/927/334/original/b133646c1b3d2274.webp

2026-08-21 12:37:44 GMT

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Like minds and all that. Ha.

2026-08-21 05:24:09 GMT

At 1:15 AM normal people are fast asleep for several hours sawing logs.
Meanwhile, I'm fawking around in the cellar with cover off the main electrical panel that connects the house to the barn and garage and trying to figure out the maximum number of amps that can be pushed between the buildings. I was hoping the line to the barn was over-spec'ed for the current 60A allocated. It isn't (sad face).
Why do I do this to myself? Insomnia and an active imagination are pain. Ha.

2026-08-18 15:53:19 GMT

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All eyes on the Debian vote re: AI I guess...

2026-08-18 15:47:47 GMT

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Agree, I've got FreeBSD running Plasma with very few issues, just little paper cut things here and there where things are not configured out of the box as expected.
The only thing that really annoys is not having a proper smb client to mount cifs shares in the fstab. It's not the end of the world, could run nfs on the nas, but I don't wanna. Ha. Otherwise there is not really a a show stopper to using FreeBSD on the desktop in my case.
It's disappointing that all these operating system teams are afraid to make a statement one way or the other due to a fear of "missing out" or whatever it is that is stopping them one way or the other.
That shows a lack of organization in the lesser case and a lack of character in the greater case, IMO.

2026-08-18 15:31:31 GMT

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Yeah, that's my understanding as well.
I'd consider going to FreeBSD just 'cause it has the broadest amount of support in community and hardware but the project seems to be as wishy-washy as Alpine re: slop so what's the point? For me, it would be kind of reducing utility to in terms of hardware support to end up in the same place.
I like OpenBSD conceptually but I find the community support off-putting the few interactions I've had/seen and it has even less hardware and software support.
NetBSD just doesn't fit what I need.
Elementary is a "safe place" currently, IMO (systemd notwithstanding 😜).
I'd like to see them re-baseline on Debian Testing the way Tuxedo is doing but that's unlikely to happen any time soon, if ever. And it's certainly not a reason not to use e. Ha.

2026-08-18 14:50:40 GMT

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Ah, was not aware. Sound drivers don't quite work? FreeBSD-isms causing issues?

2026-08-18 14:33:56 GMT

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FWIW, Chimera Linux has a similar bent and it provides basically all the desktop environments you'd typically want - if you don't want a GTK based desktop like Pantheon you can run KDE, LXQt, whatever.
Pantheon is awesome, just a little restrictive for my tastes. I ran e for like 3-4 years back in the late-teens and it did everything I wanted at that time.
Chimera uses the FreeBSD userland, is very snappy, etc. Small dev team but I haven't seen any issues in the ~2 years I've been paying attention to it. No systemd.
These to me are the two standout Linux distros of the moment re: slop.
I'm running Alpine these days and they are kind of wishy-washy on the slop thing it seems. There's a lot of inertia for me to move to something else right now and if I do move I may leave Linux altogether perhaps.

2026-08-17 21:10:49 GMT

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Or maybe s/Linux Foundation/Linus Foundation/g ?

2026-08-17 20:57:54 GMT

Someone needs to create a web browser extension that does a s/Linux Foundation/Linux Consortium/g type thing.
The word "foundation" is kinda loaded and doesn't mean what people expect it to mean.
#Linux #LinuxFoundation

2026-08-17 01:58:33 GMT

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To be fair, us old farts hate them too.

2026-08-15 04:49:12 GMT

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/117095119793421876
Linux frens, if you aren't already, now is the time to be building your BSD skill sets.
The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Initiative don't reflect what is written on the tin - not sure they ever have.
The writing is on the wall.
#Linux #RunBSD

2026-08-10 23:18:59 GMT

It's a rainy day here so instead of working on the garden folly, I've been messing around with desktops and whatnot. I'm supposed to be on vacation... ha.
Finally tried out Cosmic. I like it, it's pretty light (and also unfinished) but it is snappy and usable as far as I could tell in a few hours of usage.
In the short term I'd expect to extend functionality with other apps if I was to daily it. As an example, there is no font management that I could find and ended up adding fonts manually.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #Cosmic #CosmicDesktop
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2026-08-08 18:21:09 GMT

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I run Alpine nowadays. It does everything I want in a Linux distribution (desktop, server, embedded). If it wasn't for Alpine and it being an "easy button" of sorts for someone that's been using Linux for a long time I'd be running FreeBSD.

2026-08-04 15:13:37 GMT

Finally migrated my gitea instance to forgejo. Was simple enough and took like 5 minutes to accomplish.
It's basically just modify the docker compose file to reference the correct forgejo version to replace gitea and bring it up. This is an internal home lab system so no 2fa/oauth or whatever to reverse engineer as part of the process.
<doing proper fs and db backups beforehand are implied in these statements>
#gitea #forgejo #homeLab #Selfhosted #SelfHosting

2026-08-03 16:08:40 GMT

Oh ho!
LVGL has BSD framebuffer devices now...
#RunBSD #LVGL
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2026-07-29 16:00:03 GMT

Detected no lies...
Maybe a bit of hyperbole as a comedic device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqPP7SwGcU

2026-07-28 19:30:34 GMT

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This is awesome.

2026-07-27 13:37:05 GMT

Thinking about a new domain+project...
Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?
Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?
I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.
Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.
I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.
What's out there?
#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

2026-07-26 18:35:41 GMT

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Ok, I give up.
After some more tweaking and three or four crashes in a similar number of hours I've reverted this machine back to the RX 6000 GPU.
I'll try again when I hear about more AMD RDNA 3 GPU kernel changes.

2026-07-26 14:38:58 GMT

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Hard crash to a green screen on the DP connected screen, black screen on the HDMI screen. Was playing video out of Jellyfin fullscreen on the DP screen. Now it's looping the last 1-2 seconds of audio in the video. Can't login remotely, totally hung otherwise.
<sigh />
<grr />
<ffs />

2026-07-25 15:43:30 GMT

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It's not just you. Ha.

2026-07-24 13:20:15 GMT

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Ok, I think I've got this display card under control - or so it seems. It hasn't crashed since Wednesday.
I guess this is a combo AMD RDNA3 Navi23 and KDE Plasma (+ Wayland?) bug...
I backed out all my Linux kernel command line switches for AMD GPUs and it crashed to green screen in less than a half hour. So, re-adding them stopped that from happening.
... amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x410 amdgpu.tmz=0 amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1 amdgpu.sg_display=0 ...
And then the cursor thing is fixed <?!> by adding
KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1
Currently this is what is set:
`cat /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep KWIN` :
KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1
KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1
KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1
From a user experience point of view I don't see any difference with that software cursor setting.
There's another wrinkle to this that might be a factor but I can't really test around it currently. This is a multi-head machine and one screen is connected via HDMI and one is DP.
Perhaps this wouldn't be a problem if both screens were connected via the same type of connector.
Both screens are set to the same refresh frequency. But, in the display control app one reads back at 60.00 Hz while the other is 60.000 Hz. Minor thing right? But in trying to make this work I've seen references to AMD GPU weirdness in multi-head configurations where the refresh rates were different between screens. Red herring perhaps.
Anyway, don't know if there are (or will be) any people trying to make a RX 5800 XT GPU behave under Linux but this seems to be what worked for me and my dual head setup. I'll update if anything changes.
#Linux #AMD #AMDGPU #KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #kwin #Wayland

2026-07-23 18:07:43 GMT

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We've got your back.

2026-07-23 14:21:24 GMT

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Maybe that hard fork idea is not so crazy after all.

2026-07-22 21:12:21 GMT

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Nice mouse cursor ya got there... be a shame if something happ....
shazbot!
#Linux #AMD #amdgpu #rdna3
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2026-07-22 18:54:27 GMT

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One thing I've noticed is that the Pkg Power consumption displayed in btop is ~1.0W higher with the 7800 XT vs the 6600. Unfortunate.
Otherwise, still solid so far.

2026-07-22 16:31:47 GMT

Back at testing whether my RDNA3 card (7800 XT) will behave itself on this system.
I'm running kernel 7.1.4 (Alpine linux-stable) so supposedly there are a bunch of fixes since 6.19 -> 7.0 -> 7.1.x.
We'll see. Last hour has been solid. No screen artifacts or horizontal aberrations on terminal or web browser windows.
When it did occasionally work adequately before it would hard crash to a green screen on one of the monitors after about 24 hours or so. Didn't matter what kernel parameters I put on the kernel cmd line.
It's kind of weird as I've been running this card in a different system (same OS, different gen CPU/mobo) successfully but it is a single head system so maybe that's the difference. Some combinations of cobbled together junk just don't work in the PC space.
Fingers crossed.
#Linux #AMD #amdgpu #RDNA3

2026-07-22 16:04:17 GMT

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I still chuckle out loud every time I see "Fish Linux". Ha.

2026-07-21 13:55:37 GMT

Hey Gang...
Trying to do some damage control for a relative that is stuck on Windows.
What's a good Windows email client nowadays, something with good calendar integration, etc., multiple accounts?
That IS NOT Outlook.
Thanks.

2026-07-20 15:39:10 GMT

RE: https://abyssdomain.expert/@nickm/116946571615264958
Excellent advise for any engineering organization!
#note1afl…c7gg

2026-07-18 12:28:01 GMT

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There's no huge change in the GUI - hope I didn't over sell it. There's just a single Rules section now and it is laid out more logically, at least to me it seems. It's just simple clean up stuff like this throughout.

2026-07-18 03:25:29 GMT

Spent a lot of time today playing with OPNSense (err, fighting - a while back my whining about not getting along with networking was no joke).
Eventually got what I wanted to work to actually work (OPNsense as an exposed node inside a Bell Giga Hub network routing/NAT'ing to a dmz host hanging off said exposed node) but omfg I suck at this stuff. It's painful - be glad you can't watch me work. Ha.
Aaannyyyywwwaaaayyyyyy...
If you haven't already upgraded to the latest OPNSense (26.7), you may be surprised by some of the quality of life GUI clean up and more impressively the sped up boot time. On my N150 based box it boots 'super fast' like a normal PC compared to the old fashioned, slow thing it was doing before. No hard data to share, just a seat of the pants anecdote.
#OPNSense #RunBSD #networking #PF

2026-07-17 14:29:39 GMT

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For the last two-three months I've been getting an invoice from AWS for $0.78 and have been ignoring it. That account hasn't been used in over five years, had a zero balance, credit card on file is expired, etc., etc.
Don't know if related to the bug, but got no pennies for that here. I don't even know how I'd go about paying it now since that was like 3-4 positions ago at my employer. Ha.

2026-07-17 14:13:12 GMT

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This is deliciously passive-aggressive. 😀

2026-07-17 08:33:50 GMT

It's infuriating that every USB A connector seems to have three sides and it only ever mates when attempted to connect on the third try.

2026-07-16 16:12:53 GMT

The first thing I do when set up a new desktop system is disable all the desktop level notifications for email, socials, etc.
If something is important enough to interrupt me they can get out of their shell and phone me with an actual telephone.
Btw, no one has my number.
😜

2026-07-15 19:10:08 GMT

If one say wanted to move a ZFS root pool from a Linux host and re-install as a root pool on a FreeBSD host, is there anything "special" that needs to be done beyond the standard export/import type tutorials out there?
I mean, beyond mounting the rpool initially from the install media and deleting everything outside of /root and /home I mean?
Backups are verified; just trying to save the time involved for rebuilding ZFS under FreeBSD (vs import) and restoring TBs of data.
Anything special or considerations about the Linux -> FreeBSD movement of the pool?
#Linux #RunBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

2026-07-12 13:51:44 GMT

Seems like it's been a busy week for the Alpine devs.
This weekend repo upgrade linux-stable from 7.0.10 > 7.1.3; Plasma from 6.6.5 > 6.6.6. I'll be keeping an eye on the later. Ha.
Maybe I'll take a swipe at trying the 7800 XT (RDNA3) card in my main machine again to see if things have improved. It's too nice out to be screwing around in the lab today.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #AMDGPU

2026-07-11 05:31:15 GMT

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thanks for linking this.
I need to break out my old conky config and perhaps update with these widgets. It's been quite a while.

2026-07-11 00:30:19 GMT

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Got a different known, good usb stick to try to boot from? Monkey around in the bios usb settings - reset to start from oem perhaps? Secure boot off?

2026-07-09 15:36:48 GMT

Does anyone know of a tool that...
Takes an image of a line chart / graph and can turn it into am approximate data table?
If inclined, I could probably use some AI BS to do this but want to avoid fishing with nukes, and do it locally - without me firing up an image editor and manually picking off data points. Ha.
Suggestions?

2026-07-09 15:29:12 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@RootMoose/116283786012505317
I'm now at the point that I "resent" having to occasionally log into and manipulate systems still running systemd based operating systems...
#note127z…p7qy

2026-07-07 20:33:40 GMT

Oh, cool. Waterfox is in FreeBSD-ports.
#RunBSD #Waterfox #FreeBSD

2026-07-05 13:58:26 GMT

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Lol - pretty much!

2026-07-05 13:13:16 GMT

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Noise, noise, noise, so much noise.
I follow the hash tag but mute a lot of the 'daily slop generators' that don't really add any value to my day.

2026-07-02 15:06:27 GMT

My primary work laptop for ${dayjorb} is a Windows 11 machine.
Every time I need to start doing something "serious" I always have to re-remember to do Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V for cut-n-paste like some kind of a caveman instead of using the middle mouse button.
#Linux #RunBSD #Windows

2026-06-23 15:56:38 GMT

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No middle-button paste into the URL bar.
Ruined!
Unusable!
LOL

2026-06-23 15:41:17 GMT

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actually, there's a whole bunch of further ad blocking sources further down that can be toggled on/off.
Will have a play/test.

2026-06-23 15:39:18 GMT

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It appears so...
Might be something to investigate further. OOB hasn't been good enough so far.
That said, adding uBlock is hardly OOB either.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/800/165/245/203/047/original/00f3b7ae8b7592a0.png

2026-06-23 15:30:18 GMT

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Not in my experience, but to be fair, I haven't tried it on the open internet lately (~six months).

2026-06-23 15:25:26 GMT

Had to get the scanner working and this was the first time trying KDE Skanpage app (flatpak - not in Alpine repos).
It automatically found my wife's Epson Artisan 837 (i.e very old - ~2011!) even though it's on a different subnet. Simple interface, much less friction than expected.
It's nice when stuff 'just works'.
#KDEPlasma #Plasma #scanner #Linux

2026-06-23 14:32:46 GMT

If Vivaldi had uBlock Origin I'd probably use it more.
I have to use a Chromium based browser to access some sites (business services web sites) and on those rare occasions I'm always impressed by how "snappy" Vivaldi is compared to Firefox and derivatives.
Vivaldi is a much more useful experience on iOS than the iOS lobotomized Firefox in the Apple app store.
Because of the lack of ublock and other extensions like cookie auto-delete and whatnot, I don't do much casual web browsing or researching things on my iOS phone - just the daily routine sites where I understand that there are no adverts - and only when I'm "out and about", never at home where I have access to 'better' browsing platforms. I got rid of my iPad for similar reasons.
I still use Waterfox on Android because I can run uBlock and other extensions.
Sure, Vivaldi is not totally open source but... I hate to say it... I'm starting to care less when it comes to the hellscape that the web has turned into.
I'll still use a gecko based browser for most things.
#web #internet #vivaldi #firefox #waterfox #librewolf

2026-06-19 17:39:27 GMT

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Actually, I did make a change at that time... using the Arch Wiki's page for AMD (Sec 5.3.1) I added a new boot parameter.
printf 'amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0x%x\n' "$(($(cat /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask) | 0x4000))"
Seems to have made a difference. Over the longer haul we'll see...
I don't dare change anything at the moment. Ha.

2026-06-19 17:29:07 GMT

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Ofc, after posting this last night in frustration, after a fresh reboot and seeing the machine do a bunch of weird blts for about 5 mins or so, it's been behaving all day and working as it's supposed to... weirdness.
'Fraid to reboot at this point.

2026-06-18 20:11:10 GMT

Shot in the dark...
Anyone else having a terrible time with the AMD 7800 XT under Linux?
Were you able to tame it?
Share your kernel params?
I've gotten no joy with various combo's and permu's of "amdgpu.tmz=0 amdgpu.sg_display=0 amdgpu.gfx_off=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 iommu=soft"
😵‍💫

2026-06-17 13:30:35 GMT

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The networking stack can be a pain. I'm not a fan of how systemd does it or Network Manager for that matter. I'm just too old I guess.
What distro?

2026-06-16 23:39:47 GMT

I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc.
Oh, that's just me?
Carry on.
#Linux #AlpineLinux

2026-06-16 19:29:02 GMT

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For giggles tried the same thing on a Debian box I have here (compile from source) and it installs and can be selected as expected.
Weird.

2026-06-16 19:01:01 GMT

Found some time to shake the cobwebs off the brane pan with respect to compiling software from source. A couple days ago I was asking about getting an Alpine package for the Klassy theme set for Plasma.
I'm not a developer so it's not my comfort zone really.
I remembered that Alpine generally has the same package naming convention as Arch so I used that example on the Klassy github page as a basis to install all the dependencies and compile. It compiles, super cleanly <kleanly?> too.
But, I can't select it in the Colours & Themes > Global Theme > Application Style picker. It appears with a placeholder bitmap but doesn't allow it to be selected.
Tried logout and reboot for last grasp at straws but no luck. Bummer.
Something else to dig into I guess. The install ran clean so there must be some little subtlety missing when files are copied to their destinations or a config is not updated or something.
Anyone have some hints?
#KDEPlasma #KDE #Plasma #ArchLinux #Linux
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2026-06-13 23:04:10 GMT

Has any one managed to build klassy on Alpine?
https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy
#Linux #AlpineLinux #KDEPlasma #Plasma #KDE

2026-06-12 20:37:48 GMT

Ah, that's better.
Buh-bye Forky and the heeedious systemd...
Minor dramas involved mind you... when I changed out the 4070S for the 7800XT the DP->HDMI @60Hz dongle I need for the second screen came apart in my hands... trip to the store to get a new 60Hz dongle at some point soon. 30Hz capable cable to the rescue - but hard on the eyes I find.
At idle the box is burning ~1W less - I'll blame systemd for all the bazillion services it is constantly running.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #Plasma #KDEPlasma #KDE
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2026-06-12 12:54:56 GMT

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It seems to work out of the box... This was a fresh install yesterday (3.24) but I don't remember anything special about it with 3.22 - 3.23 either.
That said, "Spidey-sense" says I remember there is something dorked up about the handling for passwords under Alpine if you don't have ssh passwordless set up between hosts/accounts. I may be misremembering again or it may be ancient issues that no longer apply.

2026-06-11 22:31:41 GMT

Did a fresh Alpine Linux (v3.24) install today and finally got around to trying out getting Blender with ROCM working under Alpine Linux. The linked article shows how to use Distrobox with Ubuntu to run Blender on an unsupported distro, even works on a musl libc distro like Alpine!
I followed the instructions but the Blender (v4.5.3 iirc) that is in the repo for that version of Ubuntu (v24.04) didn't seem to work. I downloaded the latest Blender version from blender.org (v5.1.2) and installed it in the distrobox VM and it worked perfectly!
I'm going to try to do it using a more modern rocm supported distro in the Distrobox next.
This pretty much negates the last daily driver niggle for Alpine for me... other than the sftp annoyance I posted about earlier - which I can work around easily enough.
https://thomchroma.fr/en/blog/gpu-rendering-blender-rocm-hip/
#Linux #Distrobox #AlpineLinux #Alpine #AMD #rocm #hip #Blender

2026-06-11 20:22:53 GMT

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?
Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.
It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.
Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.
Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp

2026-06-05 09:01:20 GMT

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Dunno re termux - I installed it via gapps eons ago and only lightly use it so haven't been paying attention re slop status.

2026-06-05 08:54:37 GMT

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I use CX File Explorer to connect over sftp but it does do smb as well (have not tried it). On iOS I use the built in Files app to mount smb.
My smb server is samba running in docker on a Linux host.
I don't think CX creates local mounts though - if that's what you need. Not sure any normal android app would do that... Maybe termux?

2026-06-02 15:16:06 GMT

The most annoying part of systemd?
"A start/stop job is running.... blah.. blah..." and wait for who knows how long in spite of what is on the screen.
I can _tolerate_ a lot but this type of thing getting in my way really pisses me off.
#Linux #systemd

2026-05-30 00:25:59 GMT

High winds here have knocked power out so I'm surfin' on my work iPhone's LTE connection.
I really wanted to download Casuarina Linux [ https://casuarina.org ] to give it a go this evening ... Power co. sez power restored in around two more hours - so much for that.
#Linux #Casuarina #CasuarinaLinux

2026-05-25 23:50:35 GMT

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Wow - that's a real shit storm of a thread. After reading about a third of it I may need to go have a lie down. Ha.

2026-05-25 22:51:37 GMT

I guess since the whole "Flatpak creating a dependency on systemd" bullshit has surfaced this week there has been some other conversations about systemd going on throughout the Fediverse.
I've seen some oblique references to Debian making an effort to make OpenRC more viable as an alternate init system. That's about all I've gathered on my hit-n-run timeline surfing the last several days. Not sure if this is an official Debian project or just someone's wish list.
Anyone have the skinny? Links to actual discussions?
#Linux #Debian #systemd #OpenRC #Flatpak

2026-05-24 16:06:49 GMT

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Not very helpful but kinda 'smells' like a microcode update change is affecting you?
Maybe try comparing the version numbers of everything kernel related from 14th May to the next?
Sorry, I don't know much about OpenBSD so don't know if this can show differences beyond the kernel and associated bits being a single packaged monolith perhaps.
Hopefully not a wild snipe hunt.

2026-05-22 14:13:04 GMT

Finally, fibre internet is available in my rural location. 1.5 Gbps will certainly load much faster than the 25 Mbps LTE we have had the last several years.
Just think how fast Mastodon will load now! LOL

2026-05-22 02:27:27 GMT

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I tried about 6-7 month with qemu. Didn't work at that time (15.0 iirc).

2026-05-21 14:22:59 GMT

Anyone else running Debian Testing/Forky still stuck on 6.19.14+deb14 due to in-repo zfs and/or nvidia modules not playing nice with 7.0.x?
Some other module? Would be interested to know of others.
Not a big deal (7hi$ 1s 73st1nG!) , but polling for apt update like some kind of a demented squirrel trying to get a nut through a wire fence is getting long in the tooth. Ha.
Maybe it's just me? 🙃
#Debian #Debian14 #Forky #DebianTesting #Linux

2026-05-20 14:17:23 GMT

It's been 0 days since my fat fingered morning routine of logging into my box with failed passwords made me wonder if the previous day's updates broke PAM and I'd have to boot single and inflict violence on the host.

2026-05-20 04:33:04 GMT

People still use Google search? Huh...

2026-05-15 18:49:39 GMT

Took the day off to get my MX-5 out of winter storage.
So far have been under a greasy tractor all afternoon replacing fuel lines and pump.
Should've gone to work. lol

2026-05-15 15:02:50 GMT

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Probably be perfectly fine provided the wifi chip is supported. Some macbooks of this era use Broadcom B43 chips. These are supported but some distros make it unnecessarily difficult to set it up.
Boot the live CD with Mint and see if the Wifi works. If not, check the forums.

2026-05-15 06:45:30 GMT

Migrated my laptop off Solus to Debian Testing/Forky. Of course there seems to be issues building the Nvidia drivers with 7.0.4+deb14 'cuz lpe's and firefighting response time reasons.
It's almost 3 am, fawk it. Machine runs fine on Intel igpu for now.

2026-05-14 20:38:18 GMT

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I managed to get the 11700k to have a pkg idle at ~5.5W (from ~14.5W). This is running a full KDE Plasma desktop and driving two 4K displays.
Go into your BIOS and change all the C-states settings from "Auto" to "Enabled", C-10. That's all it took.
Well, I installed tlpd and acpid but I doubt they contributed a lot to reducing the number.
I'm content with this for now.
The AMD 3600X - can't do a damn thing with it - other than turn it off. I'll probably do that. Much cheaper than replacing with a 5650GE. Ha.

2026-05-14 17:16:56 GMT

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The past two weeks have been a miserable fat fingered period of time for me... I feel your pain.

2026-05-14 14:06:10 GMT

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This article is a little dated but most likely still relevant. He also has many articles reviewing grfx tabs on his site.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

2026-05-14 13:40:40 GMT

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surphie

2026-05-13 20:04:50 GMT

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frame and bulkhead...

2026-05-13 18:38:19 GMT

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And I don't get how the 10700k gets ~1W for pkg as displayed in btop, turbostat, etc. Can't be correct. Mind you, both the 3600X and 10700K machines have kill-a-watts and the Intel is ~20W less than the AMD (65W vs 87W).
Weird.

2026-05-13 18:32:33 GMT

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Some more numbers of systems I forgot I had handy...
Intel Core 3 N355: < 1W !!!
Intel N150: < 1W !!!
These don't have the compute power of any of the others though... well, maybe in line with i7-3770. Ha.

2026-05-13 18:21:54 GMT

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Agree, between power sched, undervolting, and base clocks there's probably more to be gained.

2026-05-13 18:20:50 GMT

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[ Ack! turbostat - been struggling to remember the name of that all day ]
Ok, very cool. So, at ~6W that makes it potentially running at ~30% of the 3600X I have in one of my machines.
Thanks for taking the time to round up this info. Appreciated!

2026-05-13 18:15:00 GMT

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Actually, I mispoke - no need to "make". <too many ball in the air>
That musl package is statically compiled/bound - just untar and run it.

2026-05-13 18:08:05 GMT

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There's probably easier ways to get the info... but everyone loves colourful btop, right? 🙃

2026-05-13 18:06:41 GMT

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if you run btop as root it should appear in the top right above the temperatures.
If btop is older it may not be there. If you install the version in the releases section of their github page it should work. 'make install' sticks it in /usr/local/bin so it doesn't pollute your system (depending on system). Or just run it out of where you cloned and don't do an install.

2026-05-13 18:04:37 GMT

Made the mistake at looking at current 8TB spinning rust hard drives...
WTAF?!
We are getting ripped off.

2026-05-13 16:49:38 GMT

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In the past I haven't had much luck with setting things in that tab making much of a difference. I just revisited and by bulk setting everything to "good" maybe there is a ~1 W difference if I squint at the averages. "AMD things" perhaps.
I think the CPU number in btop correlates to the package power. My thought is that maybe moving from a 95W CPU to a 35W would cut the power in half. That would be ~10W on a 5650GE but not the 3W on a 5825U.
Hmm, I think I just talked myself out of that 5650GE in my aliexpress shopping cart. Ha.