Problems for myself

I don’t know the specifics, but I know it’s another option in LORA comms. Works with much of the same equipment as Meshtastic. It has a different way of handling messages that does seem to handle congestion better than busy/uncoordinated areas of Meshtastic networks.

I personally am not as interested in it bc of the lack of node options compared to MT, and parts of it are proprietary. Some admin features also seem to be paywalled in one of the primary app options. Iirc android has a few other app options for node companionship

As a cyclist I have, many times. And always from people that feel bicycles shouldn’t be on roads when they are

Works pretty well in my area, though not so much wherever there’s a ridge and node to help propagate the network over it. There’s a few slivers of town without coverage, but there’s a very large, multistate group of enthusiasts expanding the infrastructure.

Some have also left Meshtastic entirely, in favor of Meshcore. I might try it on my spare T Deck just to see. But Meshtastic is fun, especially if you enjoy the potential for tinkering with things. I had a blast going through the thread of putting MT on some Chatter2.0s, along with some mods to the boards. Now they’re like little mesh Nokias, ringtones and all!

Jellyfin+jellify seem to be good open source options

Emby has transcoding and audio only playback support for CarPlay

It’s a great phrase for things like this lol

Yeah I haven’t seen my Mac Pro 6,1 do this in the 2y it’s been living in my rack running boinc jobs. Nor my M1 mini at work that goes untouched for months at a time bc I don’t need to go there.

I’ve encountered this before, on a Mac Pro 5,1. Same thing used to happen to my old Linux machine and I’ve seen it happen to Win2k waaaaaay back in the day. I recall the whole up-too-long-cant-network thing being quite common at one point. This article feels like a nothing burger.

Not at all! I upgraded the heavy lifters case fans to all noctuas, there’s still fan noise but it’s very easily drowned out. Actually the most noise came from my HAL model. Partly sunny days would trigger its sensor and it’d randomly start spewing lines.

I believe you are correct

That sounds like your Lemmy client/app, not Lemmy itself.

Manjaro had such a strong start on the pbps, but maaaaaan did it feel like it just went to trash towards the end. That’s why I switched to fedora on mine.

About the display out, I actually found that there was something about the port (iirc) where the display out only worked in one way. You could plug in a usbc cable, not get video out, unplug and flip it, plug it in, and you’ve got video out. Of course many distros broke it altogether somewhere during the kernel v5.xx.

I will say that during the times I ran Manjaro or Arch on it, I was pleasantly surprised how many things from the AUR I could get to build/run on just by asking yay to try!

I agree though, support and the device are not polished enough to immediately recommend for daily driving. But I also saw last night that there’s more distros advertising images for it. I may have to grab an SD and give them a whirl, see if things have improved. Regardless, it was a poc that definitely showed ARM could be a viable alternative to x64 in laptops

It is. Iirc when the m.2/pcie board for the pbp was released a lot of people did use for alternate wifi chips. I opted for a 2260 SSD. I may revisit the laptop and see if it’s hammered out now though

My pinebook Pro has been rocking it with fedora as its primary OS. The most issues it seems to have is with the wifi drivers after release updates. I’ve had good experiences with Debian/Armbian on SBCs too.

My only advice on getting an ARM device to run Linux is to check the wireless used in your desired device has good existing support. It’s a bit of a pain having to dig around for a no-fail dongle just to update drivers for the internal hardware.

it won’t boot from SD? Or was it a bad spi flash?

Even better!