Noodlings 17 | Designing, Replacing and Configuring

A prime number podcast but not a prime podcast

17th Noodling of technical musings

I’d like to say something interesting about the number 17, it’s a prime number, the last year you are a minor in the United States, perhaps other places… Team 17 was a great video game house in the 90s that made the game Worms, that was cool. Played that quite a lot some years back…

Fusion 360 Architectural Design

Used Fusion 360 on Linux to help me design a major renovation project. I need a new space for my dusty projects, a place to make wood and metal chips and other non-electronics friendly tasks like welding.

MechBoard64 | Replacement Commodore 64 Keyboard

Modern replacement keyboard project for the Commodore 64. Not in production but all the plans to build your own are available.

Zoom Meeting Large UI Elements | Fix

Over-sized UI elements

TUXEDO Pulse 15 | Possible AMD Linux Laptop Upgrade

First New Piece of Hardware that excites me and just may be my next laptop

BDLL Followup

• Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix is struggling with their process to become an official distribution due to 3rd party packages
• FerenOS reaches 5 years
• Community feedback, concerning getting into Network Administrator, get your hands on, buy some cheap used equipment, get the Debian network administrator handbook. Get real equipment seems like the best way to learn.
• For me, Ocular for reading. For managing ebooks, I use Calibre. Folio was talked about but it looks to Gnome.

openSUSE Corner

openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference Extends Call for Papers

Organizers of the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference are extending the Call for Papers to August 4. Participants can submit talks for the live conference past the original deadline of July 21 for the next two weeks. The conference is scheduled to take place online from Oct. 15. – 17.

The length of the talks that can be submitted are either a 15-minute short talk, a 30-minute normal talk and/or a 60-minute work group session. Organizers believe shortening the talks will keep attendees engaged for the duration of the online conference.

The conference will have technical talks about LibreOffice, openSUSE, open source, cloud, containers and more. Extra time for Questions and Answers after each talk is possible and the talks will be recorded. The conference will schedule frequent breaks for networking and socializing.

The conference will be using a live conferencing platform and will allow presenters with limited bandwidth to play a talk they recorded should they wish not to present a live talk. The presenter will have the possibility to control the video as well as pause, rewind and fast-forward it.

Attendees can customize their own schedule by adding sessions they would like to participate in once the platform is ready. More information about the platform will be available in future news articles.

Organizers have online, live conference sponsorship packages available. Interested parties should contact ddemaio (at) opensuse.org for more information.

Release Team Asks for Feedback on openSUSE Leap “15.2”

The openSUSE release team is would like feedback from users, developers and stakeholders about the release of the of community-developed openSUSE Leap 15.2 through a survey. The survey is available at https://survey.opensuse.org. openSUSE Leap 15.2 was released on July 2. The survey centers on these two questions: what went well and what didn’t go well?

Tumbleweed Roundup

• 20200728 Pending Stable 99
  • ffmpeg-4
  • sudo (1.9.1 -> 1.9.2)
    Subpackages: sudo-plugin-python
• 20200727 Pending Stable 99
  • yast2 (4.3.15 -> 4.3.17)
• 20200726 Pending Stable 99
  • Mesa (20.1.3 -> 20.1.4)
  • Mesa-drivers (20.1.3 -> 20.1.4)
  • fourth bugfix release for the 20.1 branch
  • just a few fixes here and there, nothing major
  • gnome-disk-utility (3.36.1 -> 3.36.3)
  • Fix creating partitions by using special parameter when requesting the maximal partition size.
  • Updated translations.
• 20200724 Stable 97
  • NetworkManager (1.24.2 -> 1.26.0)
  • flatpak (1.6.4 -> 1.8.1)
  • kernel-firmware (20200702 -> 20200716)
  • pipewire
  • Subpackages: libpipewire-0_3-0 pipewire-modules pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2 pipewire-spa-tools pipewire-tools
• 20200721 Stable 94
  • MozillaFirefox
  • Add mozilla-libavcodec58_91.patch to link against updated soversion of libavcodec (58.91) with ffmpeg >= 4.3.
    libzypp (17.24.0 -> 17.24.1)
    Fix bsc#1174011 auth=basic ignored in some cases (bsc#1174011)
    Proactively send credentials if the URL specifes ‘?auth=basic’ and a username.
  • ZYPP_MEDIA_CURL_DEBUG: Strip credentials in header log (bsc#1174011)
  • version 17.24.1 (22)
• 20200720 Stable 95
  • kernel-source (5.7.7 -> 5.7.9) Numerous fixes
    protect ring accesses with READ- and WRITE_ONCE
    KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Plug race between non-residency and v4.1 doorbell (bnc#1012628).

Computer History Retrospective

Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology

Value of computers today is enormous and this put that into some of its perspective.

Final Thoughts

It is never good to live in fear. The world is indeed a dangerous place, filled with so many things that reWe are often focused on the negative in the world. The things that are bad or could be improved and often become far too resentful as a consequence. If we spend more time focusing on the miracles that bring us the technology and comforts we get to enjoy day in and day out. I think the world would be a better place

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