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GNOME 3, Surface Studio Display Issues
TL;DR: This is unsolved. I need GNOME to either ignore different “monitors” and treat all connected displays as a single display, or I need it to honor xrandr –setmonitor settings. It is possible that by hand hackery of monitors.xml would accomplish this, but I don't know the schema well enough to say if it would work.
GPIO on Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi 3 (aarch64)
While everyone appears to prefer that you don't, performance is a bit better on 64bit ALARM vs. 32bit for what I'm doing. Also, I get that warm, tingly feeling of running upstream kernel without odd Broadcom or RPi Foundation patches.
That said, a lot of the basic stuff for managing GPIO isn't available. I had to poke for a few days to figure out what's going on, so I thought I'd document it, partially to save other people time, and partially so it's all in one place when I get back to it.
Anyway.
Simpler internal bridge for Xen on Arch using netctl
Just change 'Interface' and 'Dummy' appropriately, and you'll have a nice internal bridge for VMs without having to vswitch things.
Description='internal bridge for xen'
Interface=in0
Dummy=dummy0
Connection=bridge
IP=no
IPCustom=("link add $Dummy type dummy"
"link set $Dummy up"
"link set $Dummy master $Interface")
Fix Thunderbird's Dumb Reply-To Behavior
- Open up the config editor in Edit>Preferences>Advanced, search for “mail.override_list_reply_to”, set to false.
- Try to find a better mail client.
- Cry at the state of desktop mail apps in Linux.
Oregon Trail Device Board
I saw on Liliputing that they were selling one of those single game systems that had Oregon Trail instead of Frogger or whatever. I thought it might hold local interest a little longer than arcade games that only few of us remember. And then once done, I could do something terrible to it.
Also, I was wondering if they were doing something interesting in the hardware. Alas…
Those are some biggish COB blobs. I instantly thought NES-on-a-chip1) but they look a bit bigger than the standard dual NoaC and ROM splurts onto the substrate.
I should probe around a bit, because of the LCD panel. It looks like a standard panel, and I could probably fit one of the ILI9341 or so panels from ebay in it with few changes.
Also, if it *is* a NoaC, it might have composite video somewhere on the board. That could be interesting.