SteveTech

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If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it?

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....

SteveTech,

Just thought Kiwix seems like it’ll be handy here, it lets you download Wikipedia and some other websites, and they have an Android app to view them.

(They have a web version too, which I actually selfhost for if the world ends or something /s)

SteveTech,

Woah peertube federating with lemmy is actually really cool!

SteveTech,

You haven’t consented to cookies until you click agree, so there shouldn’t be any difference if the website is GDPR compliant.

SteveTech,

That’s a good point, but in that case I wouldn’t think Consent-O-Matic would be able to do much about it.

SteveTech,

It’s not exactly the same spelling, but pickle is already a built in library for saving python objects.

SteveTech,

Is there something else I can try

I use virt-manager, since it uses KVM which should already be present in the kernel.

SteveTech,

I probably wouldn’t describe it as similar, but virt-manager is fairly simple but powerful at the same time (like it will let you expose more advanced KVM/QEMU features like PCIe passthrough and similar).

But like the other guy said, gnome boxes is very straight forward and probably more similar in it’s simplicity.

They both use QEMU + KVM, so you can have both virt-manager and boxes installed at once, and I believe virt-manager (probably boxes too) easily let you use existing VirtualBox .vdi files, if you’ve got an existing VM you want to run. Also like I said before, KVM is already mainlined into the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to install sketchy kernel modules and stuff.

I’ve only used VirtualBox once though, so I can’t really compare them.

SteveTech,

It says that the guest is supposed to have some special software

That sounds like virtio-win. I usually use the iso and mount it from virt-manager, but if the internet is working then I guess you can download the exe.

I’m assuming that I’m supposed to download “libvirtd”

Just searched it up, something like this should work: sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon

Sorry I don’t have too much experience with gnome boxes either, I mostly use virt-manager.

SteveTech,

Here’s the actual HACS add-on: github.com/richardzone/homeassistant-dht

The one linked before looks to just be a GPIO one, not a DHT one.

SteveTech, (edited )

If you’re using gnome disks, it hides the more Linuxy file systems behind an ‘Other’ option.

Personally, for removable drives I prefer to use

  • ext4 for HDDs
  • f2fs for SSDs
  • exfat for Windows compatibility

If it’s grayed out or you’re getting errors try searching up ‘how to format as [file system] in [Pop OS/Ubuntu/Linux]’, you might need some extra packages.

SteveTech,

I’m pretty sure there’s no difference between internal and external ext4 (at least how gnome disks handles it), so I think it’s just trying to make sure users don’t freak out when they format it as ext4 and think their data is all gone on Windows.

Also when it’s grayed out you usually just have to install the fuse driver and file system tools, IIRC for exfat you install exfat-fuse and exfatprogs.

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Most smart devices are incredibly dumb.

In this 8th moving vlog, I set up @homeassistant Yellow with a @Raspberry_Pi to solve some of my first world problems—but using smart automation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwyInX4KyM

SteveTech,

The video is about smart devices that are poorly designed and/or rely on cloud infrastructure being dumb. Jeff also wants smart devices that will literally only talk to home assistant, and will still work fine if home assistant is offline (like a light switch will still work if the server is down).

SteveTech,

That’s what he did, but with a home assistant yellow as the gateway.

SteveTech,

Since it’s just a static site, you could host it on Cloudflare pages too, if you want to get rid of that 000webhost thing.

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SteveTech,

If you haven’t worked it out, that whole project was definitely more about because we can, than any sort of sensible reason.

SteveTech,

It was pretty much plug and play for me, I don’t really play much but it’s worked for any game I’ve thrown at it (although there was some artifacting in CS2). I’ve also done some AI stuff with it and haven’t had any issues.

SteveTech,

I wasn’t able to enable VRR on my monitor (with freesync). I’m using KDE Wayland on Debian Testing, just wondering if you knew a workaround or something?

SteveTech,

I’m running 6.5.10, also with an A770. I could maybe try/compile 6.6 later, but 6.5 seems new enough I thought.

SteveTech,

Yeah no change with 6.6, I guess I’ll probably open an issue somewhere when I have the time to figure out what’s broken.

SteveTech,

Yep, it’s definitely using DisplayPort!

SteveTech, (edited )

Okay so for whatever reason, turning Freesync on and off a bunch of times from the OSD and then replugging works until the next reboot, so I’ve dumped the working EDID and I’m trying to figure out how to load it at boot (but I’m not having much luck).

For reference, the monitor is a Samsung LC24RG50.

Edit: Got the EDID loaded, KDE says it’s supported, but VRRTest doesn’t really seem to do anything.

Edit 2: Other games work fine.

SteveTech,

Additionally, some (mostly electron) apps seem to need XCURSOR_PATH=/run/host/user-share/icons:/run/host/share/icons set as an environment variable for proper cursor theming.

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