This is the used Corsair case this will be going in:

A requirement for the customer was a DVD drive. This case has a front panel that snaps on and off with the DVD underneath.

#Corsair #CustomPC

I very much enjoyed this blog post about how the author went about writing a tech book using tools he built himself:

https://zylinski.se/posts/writing-a-book-about-odin/

#programming #publishing #books #odin

I am doing a custom build computer with a mix of new and used parts. CPU is Ryzen 7 5700. Motherboard is B550M Pro VDH wifi.

Vinix (not a Linux distro) running on a ThinkPad E470 laptop

Not my picture. Picture taken from the Vinix website.

https://vinix-os.org/

I'd like to try this on a ThinkPad T470s.

"Vinix boots to a desktop in seconds and settles at about 50 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk.

The kernel has no garbage collector. It uses manual memory management, so no collection pass can stop a system call, an interrupt handler, or the compositor at a moment of its own choosing. Memory use stays flat.

Nothing runs that you did not start. There is no systemd, no background indexer, and nothing phoning home. The desktop draws straight to the framebuffer and composites its own windows, with no display server underneath it, and the machine feels the same on day ninety as it did on day one."

#Vlang #thinkPad #OperatingSystems

I did a liveboot of Renku OS on a ThinkCentre M710q Tiny.

https://renkuos.org/

Super fast.

I may have to swap the storage out with a SATA drive instead of NVME and see if the install boots correctly after that. It installed on the NVME drive, but the system doesn't want to boot after the installer is done (installer takes less than a minute).

I use static site generators for several of my websites.

This is a good guide and explanation. I also think it is great that Tom covers CrowdSec at the end, which I would like to try out soon.

https://youtu.be/eqB1Cp62y8w

#selfHost #selfHosting

Lots of intriguing software to check out, including alternative operating systems.

Eigen - A self-hosted alternative to Google Workspace

https://eigen.is/

This looks interesting. I have been using Nextcloud for years, but have been curious about alternatives.

#selfHosting #selfHost

I upgraded a ThinkStation E30 to have wifi.

Originally sold this computer to the customer around 7 years ago. They have happily been using it that whole time. They recently moved into assisted living apartments and no longer had an ethernet jack to plug into for a network connection.

So the wifi was a needed upgrade.

I appreciate the design of the E30. I have a very similar ThinkStation S30 still in use (larger CPU socket and more memory slots).

#Lenovo #ThinkStation

I am enjoying exploring the new-to-me X Window Manager 'milk'.

Made a few more tweaks to the system, which are summarized in the fastfetch screenshot.

Switched to xLibre, now using Ghostty for terminal.

https://github.com/mirvoxtm/milk

#Linux #Odin #xLibre #Ghostty #Void #NekoVoid

I found something unexpected today:

the "milk" X11 Window Manager

https://github.com/mirvoxtm/milk

It is written in the Odin programming language (compiled). The install script pulls down the source and Odin compiler and compiles and installs after after you questions about how you’d like it set up.

I had trouble getting audio and brightness working. I was on Devuan, but decided to install a Void derivative distro. Had the same problems on that. It ended up being that I needed to create an .xinitrc file and put a line in it to start dbus and pulseaudio (I removed pipewire from Neko-Void).

cat ~/.xinitrc
dbus-run-session pulseaudio --start

Now that I have audio working, I am very pleased with the ‘milk’ window manager. The default configuration is great and easy to edit by pointing and clicking in a the settings panel (can edit a milk.json config file, too).

#WindowManager #Linux #Void #Odin #X11

The Radeon card didn't work.

I disabled the onboard embedded video controller in the BIOS, but the card was preventing the machine from booting.

Had to take the CMOS battery out to reset the BIOS and try again.

Got audio working with a USB 3 ThinkPad dock... but the DVI output on the dock won't work unless you connect it to a USB 3 port, which the PowerEdge R620 doesn't have.

So I'm looking for a USB 3 pci-e expansion card in my collection.

Odd mash up of hardware, but the dock is nice for getting more ports and audio (as servers usually do not have built in audio).

#Dell #PowerEdge #HardwareAdventures