actual boomer here with foot on sway

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The biggest problem with RDP for me is the lack of a Wayland/sway server. How does the Fedora Sway spin cope with this?

True - but don’t forget cost of power ($ cost and environment cost). These old brutes consume a lot esp. compared to the SBCs.

I have a Luckfox Pico Ultra-W running a ‘buildroot’ linux with a camera module that I use as a security camera. It cost me about A$33.

I also have a Luckfox Pico Max running ubuntu simply to run smokeping 24x7 monitoring - about A$30.

Finally a ESP32 CAM Camera Module With OV2640 camera that can be bought for less that A$15 (not linux but just FYI).

venerable jq

Ha! jq was the bratty kid I yelled at to get off my lawn. Now he’s a drinking buddy, but still the youngest!

Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.

I’ve been saying this for 30+ years, but no-one wanted to listen.

Wow! acronym soup. I understand almost none of that.

voidlinux: gave me much better battery life - I assume because it starts as a minimal system and one adds only the essentials to do the job - compared to the soup-to-nuts distros that pile everything in so that newbies are acccomodated. Of course, the voidlinux approach needs more linux skills - but it’s not that hard and the doco is great.

Also, I love the back to basics runit init system and runsv service runner (I’m old so I like that stuff) and the ultra fast xbps packaging system.

Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

BTW - thanks for Mistral. Another tool in the box!

Quite right!

You need to take it all (AI or internet searches) with a huge pinch of salt. Even ye olde text books were not infallible and often out of date, so sodium chloride was also required even then.

The code either works or it doesn’t - it’s all in the testing. If you deploy AI suggestions without thought you deserve the consequences.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

So he’s a journalist </s> Thanks for the warning, saved me a read.

Another approach entirely is to use pam_mount(8) which can automatically mount a disc on login. I use it to mount /home/$USER (obviously this couldn’t be used to mount the root fs !!)

virt-manager for the win!

“64-128mb ram” is hardly “low memory”!

You can’t avoid IBM/RedHat - they contribute to the kernel and many, many other parts of Linux eg systemd. I have no idea what you mean by DIY distros, what a peculiar adjective in this context. Linux itself is DIY. Life is DIY.

That said, voidlinux is an independent distro without systemd or snaps based on runit for init and xbps for package management. It’s also a STABLE rolling release.

waybar is good

scrcpy for android connectivity; syncthing to get files to and fro android (and any other linux system)

clipman for clipboard manager

wallpaper - whatever for? with a TWM you rarely see the background

emacs - because it’s life (I jest)