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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 —
Monkey Island PC speaker music player.
https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html
saved 2021-07-29 https://d…

You know what would be really nice (but nobody is ever going to build)?
Oscilloscope that replaces the ungodly slow USB3/1000baseT PC interface port with NVLink.
Forget PCIe and Thunderbolt... 900 GB/s of bandwidth straight from the ADC to my GPU? Sign me up.

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…

In news related to the "oh crap this disk seems to be failing" issue, my mini PC is now running Ubuntu 26.04. Had to do `do-release-upgrade -d` to get it, and I wouldn't run 26.04 on a production server just yet. But I figure toying with it on a very standard piece of kit would be fine.

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/

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

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.

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 …

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…

I think it's funny, that Nintendo assumes, that I would not just put the gallery content on the micro SD card, to put it on my PC and share it from there 🤭
The cards arrive on Wednesday, so will probably upload some stuff, then ^^
#TomodachiLifeLivingTheDream #TomodachiLife

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

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. …

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 😭

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…

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

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

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