Tootfinder

A few months ago, I setup Pika Backup and Nextcloud online account on my mini PC running bazzite-deck-gnome. Both applications store their secrets in a gnome-keyring which didn't get unlocked because there was no password prompt on "Switch to desktop", so I was pestered every time with two different prompts for unlocking the same keyring, none of which I could just dismiss in favor of the other.
Today, I finally looked into if and how I could rebase to proper GNOME GDM lo…

Found this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.

Microsoft VibeVoice does a really good job in TTS (Even on a CPU). Yet I won't be able to run it on my Minipc 🙁 But at least I was able to make it run on my PC.
If I really want to make my own website-reader, it seems like elevenlabs is the way to go.
#TTS

My first fully custom built PC I ever did
And it's still working! Now running Debian 13 on it.
https://dkomaran.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/my-first-fully-custom-built-pc-i-ever-did/

Over the past few days and weeks, I’ve decided to downsize my digital and tech collection. I own so many computers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, accessories, and so on—I can never really use it all. I bought a lot of it just to own the latest “hot stuff.”
That’s why I’ve gotten rid of most of it—either giving it away or selling it for very little. And I’ve kept only the bare essentials. Often not even the newest or best.
For example: I now only use my Peladn Mini-PC with …

I connected my Samsung TV to the internet to try for wireless display and casting from Android working and I regret it instantly.
Worse, there's gamepads ads and Ramsey giving me the middle finger on my home screen. It split my 4 inputs into two different tabs: one's a new games tab to push me into using their cloud gaming apps. No option to move consoles back to the main tab.
Wireless display to play videos from PC is nice, but casting doesn't work. Not worth it and …

Total Reload (PC) You wake up in an AI's droid body, and are quickly tasked with solving your way through the puzzle maze he's been building for millennia, with quite the lofty goal as your reward.
This is a pretty good Portal inspired FP puzzle game. Has all the things you'd expect: a disembodied "AI" talking to you, cubes, a gadgety gun, lots of rooms that require you to figure out the what the order of actions is.
Gonna get my 2 nitpicks out the way…

I just wrote a prompt that I wrote a batch file for ... 33 years ago.
"Run a full sweep hardware test. Your tool list is ~/tools/list.md"
Here's the book I used back then to create my magic floppy. Now I made a magic USB stick with #Ubuntu and #Codex

To the beautiful person working on amdgpu drivers who managed to fix resume from sleep issues on 6.18.18 release, I love you!!
Its been a day since I ran this version on my PC and I still haven’t run into the black screen issue.
I am still worried it might trigger because workdays are a different beast (more brower tabs, lot of stuff running in background, etc.) but hopefully it goes well!!
#linux

So, #microslop changed "My Computer" to "This PC" when they turned the OS into spyware, but when updates are installing, it's suddenly "don't turn off *your* computer".
#windows

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

Today was my first real attempt at using a split keyboard. I have two issues: first is getting used to a different style keyboard than I am used to, and the second is making this PC keyboard function properly on macOS. Karabiner-Elements and Keyboard Maestro got *almost* everything working right. (And some makeshift gaff tape labels.) Those keys on the left keep fucking me up! (1/2)

I can't see my problem trying to connect from my #9front laptop to an #openSUSE PC via ssh. The ssh command returns a "read1: eof" error.
I regenerate the RSA key with a 4096 bytes size and that isn't the problem. 😞
I can connect from other OS to that computer. …

When we built my new desktop PC last year in early January I kept the old monitor because it was working fine. Son picked up a new cable to connect it to the PC because the old one had the wrong fitting for the new build. It was a bit short but I rearranged my desk and moved the monitor over to the right side of my corner desk. I finally succumbed and bought a longer cable yesterday. And it's so much better having the monitor in the centre of the desk again. It only took me a year! 🤦‍♀️<…

It's April 2026 and Windows 11, the idk 15th (?) major release of Windows NT, an operating system first released 32 years ago just crashed it's networking stack so bad that rebooting doesn't work and I will have to force power-down and power-up my PC.
This happens about every 2 days.

from my link log —
A (nearly) perfect USB cable tester.
https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/
saved 2026-02-02

Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.

Should I move my gaming pc from #bazzite to #CachyOS ?

This was both my ringtone & ringback tone in the early 2000s when the 1st Pocket PC phones emerged.
Whenever my phone would ring, people around me would always turn & laugh.
▶️ Why This Song? | Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iqr-QktAB5

Set up HA to sent a metrics to Prometheus over MQTT so I can scale the PostgreSQL server I have on my home cluster for development down when my PC is off:
#MQTT #HomeAssistant #PostgresQL

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115968326488298310
No joke, starting up my desktop PC to make the switch! See you shortly! Love you all!

My TrueNAS computer (HP Z420) is beeping non-stop. The TrueNAS interface doesn’t show anything wrong, I’ve rebooted and it’s still beeping. (Maybe I should try a shutdown?)
I don’t know enough about PC hardware to know what’s going on…
#truenas #selfhosted

my plan was almost going perfectly: the ssd delivery got delayed by one day, the pc didn’t boot the first time after installing it, but was all solved by literally tapping randomly on some cables, fedora’s second ever message on screen was a “command not found” error, but it booted anyway, I assumed I would get KDE but I got GNOME…
and now I’m too tired to use it 😭