IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

At least in the default UI, it's still not working right. It's all treated as the title of the spoiler.

Most clients require it as :

Title that shows when collapsedThe rest of the text that should be hidden in the collapsed part. More text that should be hidden.

Title that shows when collapsedThe rest of the text that should be hidden in the collapsed part.

More text that should be hidden.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I have and blocked it a while back. At the time, it was just people posting screenshots of crap various AI shat out. Like....if you're posting that, you're part of the problem and feeding the hype. Just stop.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Well I don't know what else I can do. I go out of my way to avoid and/or disable any AI crap in every piece of freaking software.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Been playing with a Raspberry Pi Zero clone (Orange Pi Zero 2W) to make a portable travel router + app server + party box + development environment. Basically seeing what all I can cram into four 1.5 GHz cores and 4 GB of RAM in a Pi Zero form factor.

Its primary upstream is wifi (but can use ethernet or USB tethering with some reconfiguring) and also presents an access point. AP, ethernet, and USB ethernet gadget interfaces are bridged into the "LAN" segment.

Has multiple VPNs (one for privacy and one for connecting to my internal stack), PiHole for DHCP services and ad blocking, PairDrop for sharing files, CodeServer for development, MPD and Snapcast for listening to music (plus another Pi Zero to act as a satellite speaker), Kiwix with the full 120 GB dump of Wikipedia and pretty much every dev doc I could load, Calibre Web with most of my book collection loaded, and Searx-NG to provide a portable search engine that's not infested with AI and SEO slop.

It's also running Nginx with real Let's Encrypt certs so all the web apps it hosts are properly running behind HTTPS.

Still working out some kinks / hardware quirks and don't have the scripting automation complete to cast from Bluetooth to Snapcast server, but that does work on the bench.

I call it the "Quirky Turkey".

Block diagram

Back view (one USB is power the second a USB C DAC->RCA connecting it to my Bose)

Front view

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Not sure what client you're using, but the spoiler tag not being closed causes them to not work.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is c/DadJokes though....

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the point of 11h is to achieve that kind of range without directional antennas. Basically as a higher-bandwidth version of LoRa.

Took me a second to get that. Gross. But also lol

Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think "drip" or "slow drip"? I know "drip" used to be a term but was never one I associated with "screwball" or "crackpot". Usually I'd heard "drip" to mean something closer to "dull" or "boring".

 

Considering today is Thursday, I'm firmly #8.

 

From "Star Trek Picard: Firewall"

Still on TrekLit and out of my re-watch schedule, so trying to make some jokes from that.

Edit: Added alt text.

 

The whole first half of the movie is just pure scenery porn. Even without the magic, rainbow bubbles, Ego (the planet) is 100% landscaping goals for me.

This scene depicts the reaction I get when I make references to shows that were popular in the 80s/90s.

 

I realize this is Raspberry Pi community, but considering the overlap, I hope Pi-adjacent is acceptable.

Looking at the Orange Pi Zero W2 for a project since it's available with a lot more RAM than the Pi ZeroW2 (1-4 GB vs 512 MB). I'm not doing anything complex with it (no GPIO, USB gadget, etc), and it'll basically just be a tiny server running Kiwix and possibly some light groupware and/or file share. Maybe even CodeServer if I go with the 4 GB model.

Essentially my requirements for it are:

  • Wifi AP support so devices can connect to it. Preferably AP+STA so it can also provide internet and PiHole services.
  • Runs a supported distro (e.g. not the one-and-done version from the manufacturer that's never updated)
  • Fairly stable
  • Supports 256 to 512 GB SD card

According to what I've read, Armbian seems to be the go-to distro for these boards. It also seems to be supported by DietPi.

I've got a handful of Pi Zero's (both 1 and 2) and they work well, but even with zram enabled, I'm limited by the 512 MB of memory, so these "fruit clone" ones are tempting. Anyone have hands-on experience with them? Is there a better distro besides Armbian? Should I just stick with Raspberry Pi and manage with the limited RAM?

 

As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it's taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

 

Noticed yesterday that a post to a community on programming.dev wasn't getting any traction. Not even the single downvote every post gets. Same for a post to crazypeople. Looked at the communities on their respective home instances, and neither were there. So I pulled up the federation stats, and both were 6,000-ish behind and now that's up to 8,000-some on both.

We're getting posts from those instances but nothing from here seems to be making it to those instances for the last few days. Both seem to have stopped receiving content from us (which I also assume means votes/comments as well) since 9/27/2025 at 12:21 AM

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