I have a Amazon thermal printer (“TATTMUSE”) running on vanilla debian. related blog post.

No.

People who say “I’m switching to linux” are like people who threaten to leave the country if [fill in the blank] is elected. I pay attention more to people who say “I switched to linux” or “I left the country”. Or those who revert the decision later.

uncovering the origins of phở

dunno the origins but I can tell you the destination is my belly on a regular basis. At least when I can afford it; prices have gone up substantially in the places I visit.

Evolution.

I’m running MythTV front/back on a Pi4 with one of those generic handheld keyboards. Power consumption is important to me because I live off solar power in a campervan.

If the Pi4 died tomorrow I’d probably replace it with a ~NUC.

Ncdu

I learn something new every day. I’ve been running du -a | sort -rn | head like some kind of animal. ncdu runs very fast on my systems and shows me what I want to see. Thanks!

Do you think servers have it easy compared to personal computers? No pesky audio/video cards, bluetooth, etc…

My server upgrade to Trixie had no issues. That’s good because it’s several thousand miles away on another continent… My laptop had a few burps with ranger, jekyll, and autokey that required googling.

my experience so far

I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version

Selection bias? I suspect Debian folks are more likely to notice problems and start looking for bug reports, talking about it, etc. Like my dorky blog entry above.

I set up my ex-MIL with Mint and it worked fine. Also gave my 70-something father a Mint USB and he installed it on his own.

I’ve used other distros for that purpose in the past but since they no longer exist I’m not listing them.

She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

I’d check to see if any proprietary software is required, if there is a linux or at least WINE-friendly version available. Hopefully it’s all web-based so no proprietary stuff needed.

I remember the Franklin Ace but this is the first i’ve heared of the Mimic Spartan.

When I was three I wandered off and got my feet stuck in a muddy creek. My parents said my dog stayed with me and barked until I was found.

Jaysus, this is why mods should be able to limit visibility to subscribers only.

After all the dog hair I’ve ingested over the past 50-odd years I ought to be at least and honarary part-dog.

How often do you get your dogs nails trimmed?

I trim my dog’s nails about every 2-3 weeks. She tolerates it because I give her a mini marshmallow after each paw. I regularly touch her paws in non-trimming activities to get her used to it. She went from fear to something like annoyance.

I used to have a greyhound that was so used to handling from the track that he would fall asleep while I dremeled his nails.

Neat concept. I got killed by the statue. :-/

my nickname in college was Floppy Surprise

I use my Pi 4B as a DVR for movies and OTA television (MythTV).

There are other tools that handle playback better (OSMC/Kodi, etc) but Myth’s configuration and handling of recording schedules is incredibly powerful. Conflict management works well and it can record multiple streams off the same tuner so conflicts are reduced in the first place.

This sent me down a rabbit hole since it’s something I’ve half-considering for a while. I prefer text configuration rather than GUI so I ended up installing graph-easy on my debian laptop:

sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perl

and made a first attempt to diagram the power setup in my campervan

It’s a perl module but the graph-easy wrapper makes it behave like any other CLI tool. cat or echo the config text to the wrapper and the graph pops out on STDOUT

I had a dobie who was obsessed with eating tubes of chapstick. Had to put them way up high when they weren’t in my pocket

Are you living on a space station? What is this shitload of power?

Some of us live off-grid and make every Watt-hour we consume. So it may be that one man’s fanciful bullshit is another man’s daily life. For context, this is my 2,461st day offgrid.

A whole 60 watts?

Over the last 30 days I’ve averaged 2.01kWh/day, or an average constant consumption of 84w. All in. And that’s on the high end for folks in similar use cases. In this scenario adding in another 60w would be significant (ie, impossible for my rig during winter months).

As Sesame Street taught showed us it’s a matter of perspective.

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How does your dog tell you it’s -their- dinnertime?

She stares at me until I check my watch.