I remember when I was a kid messing with Windows 95/98, I had this intuitive feeling of what was happening under the hood. Just like how you describe your theory. Honestly you’re probably on the right track. In theory on linux you can actually dive into the source code and try to figure out what’s actually happening, but that’s intimidating AF. Hard to say if the problem is between wine and the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), X11, Wayland, KDE, or the GPU driver…

I had a kind of similar problem with my display not outputting when it was connected. I had to use a DRM file in /sys and udev script to fix it, wrote a blog about it. If your monitors are still messed up after a reboot, it sounds like this won’t help you though.

Also you made me lol to “wine strikes me more as an emulator”. It totes is. The “Wine Is Not an Emulator” name is a joke, the original name was “WINdows Emulator”, which they changed to avoid Microsoft’s lawyers.

That is simultaneously ridiculous and amazing. Blindly clicking the buttons to enable the screen definitely proves you’re getting familiar with the OS.

Why do you think wine/Bricklink messed it up in the first place?

I’ve always geeked out about fan curves and monitoring, though I readily admit for most PCs leaving the default BIOS curve works fine enough.

I just used the free chat with Claude, it created and tracked the files in its own webchat thingy. Being a kernel module, I was happy to manually check, copy/paste, compile, then run the code for each iteration.

Porting postmarketOS to a phone sounds like it may require some amount of manual running and explaining results back to the chat. Ultimately the output only starts to get functional when it hits reality and needs to keep adapting to feedback.

I wrote a blog on the process that more focuses on the journey and technical details of the controller chip.

I used a very similar method in a similar situation to albb0920. They describe it as vibe coding too.

The exact chip that handles everything is undocumented, but similar ones in the same series have datasheets. A maintained version of the linux driver handily collated all of the available datasheets and configurations used by different motherboards. Between that and my microcontroller/hardware experience, that side of things wasn’t too bad.

What I didn’t know anything about was writing an Illumos driver. I used the chatbot with a free claude account, compiling and running the code manually myself. I was impressed that it was able to build out the boilerplate and get something going at all. Course it took a few tried to get something that compiled and worked somewhat correctly. At some points I needed to look through the generated code and point out exactly what what wrong, but at least it would address it.

Code running in the context of the kernel is definitely not something I would have autonomously executing by a LLM. The end result is absolutely not something I would want put into the official Illumos source.

This from the company that started the netbook trend with the $400 eeePC in 2007…

Looks like it has an ARM CPU, a RK3588. Similar ballpark to a Pi 5 in CPU performance.

Installing another OS would be technically possible but not easy, you’d need a Linux kernel with the RK3588 drivers already in it. Then there are differences between it and other RK3588 SBCs that could cause problems.

Much like you wouldn’t want to install anything other than raspbian on a Pi, you’d be best off with ugreen’s OS even if others are technically possible.

Sorry I might have misunderstood, you mentioned giving others access externally and it working fine. Normally, if you’ve set up the service to be publicly accessible on the internet, you can just visit the same site through the public DNS record and your public IP. At home or elsewhere, it’s all the same internet.

So either you’ve done something odd, or you’re talking about different, more private, internal only services?

Can you live with the services routing out and back into your public IP? If it all works for external users on the internet, doing nothing special should mean it works for you too?

I used an old phone with a broken screen as a webcam since covid untill it totally broke recently.

However it needed some stars to align; I had a 3D printer to make a custom holder so it could sit on my monitor unobtrusively. I also luckily had a phone with a built in method to limit the battery charging so it could be plugged in 24/7. I was able to disable all power saving and permission features, so the app could run 24/7 without being killed by android.

I used droidcam, which works with an OBS plugin nowadays. I got it to the point that I just needed to launch OBS and my webcam was on, no touching or fiddling with the phone at all.

That’s just the invisible hand of the market directing people to use batteries to store the cheap power and export in the evening when the price goes up again.

Also it’s because the big coal plants can’t quickly turn on and off, so theres too much supply basically whenever the sun is out nowadays.

In my head I thought one could make relatively cheap high capacity in 2.5" SATA form factor by having more NAND chips of lower capacity. You give up speed and PCB space but that’s fine since bandwidth and IOPS are limited by SATA anyway and there’s plenty of space compared to M.2.

Turns out to not shake out that way, controller ICs that support SATA aren’t coming out any more, and NAND ICs are internally stacked to use up channels while not taking up PCB space.

There are some enterprise options, but they’re mad expensive.

I have 4x 6TB HDDs in my NAS. Around 5 years ago I decided to simply replace any dead drives with 6TB ones instead of my previous strategy of slowly upgrading their size. I figured I could swap to 8TB 2.5" SATA SSDs that had just started to exist and would surely only get cheaper in the future…

I think the idea of directions came before the idea of negative.

Back in the day I used a raspberry pi 3 for 1080p h.264 and steam link / moonlight. Problem was omxplayer plays up to 1080p60 beautifully, but anything else would struggle. Eventually ‘upgraded’ to an old laptop to easily YouTube/netflix in the browser too.

I fucking love copyparty. It starts simple enough but then the millions of options and configs let you twist it into exactly what you need.

As someone that runs a server OS that doesn’t support docker, it is very refreshing to see a single binary project. It has a focus on being administrator friendly thats really fallen out of fashion these days.

I’ve stopped using it as people have pointed out it’s hurtful, but I’ve never fully understood why. To me it’s in the same group as idiot, fool, lunatic, imbecile and cretin. Words that aren’t used to describe conditions anymore, only used as insults. While they can be used with hatred, they can also be used in a teasing way with friends. To me it doesn’t reach the level of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs.

I wanted to learn more and found a paper that makes the case that ableist insults are slurs. Download it here

I think it would be fine. Friend of mine has Immich on a N100, like you mentioned, the initial ML tasks on a big library takes over 24 hours but once it’s done it doesn’t need much. I don’t have experience running next cloud but the others you mentioned don’t need much RAM/CPU.

ZFS doesn’t need much RAM, especially for a two disk 4TB mirror. It soaks up free RAM to use as a cache which makes people think it needs a lot. If the cache is tiny you just end up hitting the actual speed of the HDDs more often, which sounds within your expectations. I dare say you could get by with 8 GB, but 16GB would be plenty.

I’d only point out if you’re looking for it to last 10 years, a neat package like the ugreen might bite you. A more standard diy PC will have more replaceable parts. Would be bigger and more power hungry though.

They’ve been seen using TM SGNL made by Israeli company TeleMessage to archive messages. Which is good except that it does so unencrypted, giving Mossad a window into the administration…

That is fricking sick dude!