Posts by Peter Mount

Not all PI hardware works with Bookworm yet

I mentioned this before, when Bookworm first came out for the PI I tried it on a PI4.

It worked fine, except for the attached official touch screen which would display but the touch interface would not work under Wayland. Switching it back to XOrg allowed the touch screen to work fully.

So as I mentioned back then, Wayland has a long way to go for some setups, even with official Raspberry PI hardware

RaspiOS going wayland - add touch screens to the list of things that break

I updated a PI4 yesterday to RaspiOS bookworm and it now defaults to Wayland on PI 4's and higher.

It started up fine, but as I have the official RPI Touchscreen on that machine the touch didn't work.

In the end I had to disable a driver which then broke Wayland. I had to revert to Xorg to get a working machine with touch.

A lot of people keep pushing Wayland but to me it's nowhere near ready for a lot of people with specific usecases.

British weather

The OatMeal has a cartoon about "celestial events" and the weather obliging by getting in the way.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/celestial_events

Looking at the forecast for here, that would be true for tonight. Sunday night (3am Monday) looks possible though

The opensource world has already done a Failbook style frontend for the Fediverse https://friendi.ca/

Stats about follower count and reach don't apply in the non-commercial world & yet the businesses seem to think they know best.

For example, Mastodon and PeerTube is doing pretty well for me. In the past week I've had more interaction on Mastodon alone than I've had on the old bird site for the past year. That's with no algorithms pushing content to people.

Shows how many don't want stuff pushed to them - oh no adverts, so they can't make money... a win for us

Even areas near existing masts don't get coverage

Where I am I get 4G easily - don't have a 5G phone but near by Maidstone does have it so that's even close. However if I go to my local Pub, which is a 10 minute walk from home I rarely get anything better than 2 or 2.5G let alone 3 or 4G, sometimes nothing at all. The nearest masts are about 1.5 miles away in several directions.

Somehow I don't see that part of Kent getting any improvements from this - this would only work for the wildest areas.

The plus side is that I can have a few pint's without people being able to get in contact other than the Pub's WiFi (if that even works)

Tumbleweed

As someone who used to use Twitter a lot, it is definitely noticeable.

I joined Mastodon back in April and it's been refreshing, none of the bitterness that you would normally see on the birdsite is visible.

However over the last week it has been evident that his takeover has had an effect - in that my timeline has definitely slowed down. It used to be really busy first thing in the morning or in the evening UK time, but it's now like a ghost town (hence the title).

From what I can see, mainly from the daily email/spam of whats been happening, of those new accounts, they seem to be porn bots. Before it used to be handy seeing 6 tweets I probably missed over the previous day. For example this morning's email is 2 useful tweets & 4 scantily clad images which I don't want & could get someone in trouble if they opened it up in a work setting.

Always keep a backup, cloud/remote sites can vanish

Although unlikely Github would do the same thing I've been using gitea locally to keep a backup of all of my public repositories as it has a handy mirror mode which can keep itself in sync with anything pushed to the remote.

It's also handy for local stuff I don't want public (like personal ansible scripts etc) or stuff not yet ready to be made public.

I remember a similar issue when Sun's code hosting Kenai went offline after Oracle bought them.

I've already migrated

As I only used it for email & didn't use any of the other services at the end of April I migrated away and I'm back running my own mail server.

To be honest it's making things a bit easier and more flexible.

Stream URL now available

Here's the Youtube link for the actual stream of tomorrows launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nODVPGHQcc&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=RocketLab

It's scheduled to start at 23:05 April 29th, weather permitting

The last couple of years there's been one locally

In 2020 & 2021 there's been a young lass who's been riding a scooter past my house on a semi-regular basis.

I know when she's passing by when there's this beep-beep-beep as she goes past.

It's actually a nice, clear & plain to alert someone near by that she's there.

She probably doesn't realise what good she's doing but one to push forward as the way to go,.,,