Noodlings 18 | Hardware is for the Terminal

18 is such an adult number. Perhaps I am truly becoming a grown up podcast here.

18th Noodling of mid-summer musings

18 Episodes… 18 is a fun number. Divisible by 2, 3, 6 and 9. The age you can vote in the United States.

LG 29″ UltraWide | Monitor Upgrade and Configuration on Linux

I have historically made my hardware decisions based on price, generally I get what I can get for as low or as reasonable as possible. Basically, I go for free or near-free and fabri-cobble something together. After seeing some other computer setups, I have really thought that I want to be able to function more effectively and efficiently than I had been. One of the areas that I have been less than happy has been my monitor layout. I have been pushing 3 displays with my Dell Latitude E6440 and for the most part, it has been meeting my needs but there were some work flows that have not been working out so well.

Tmux Terminal Desktop

I can’t say that I ever spent my childhood wishing I had the ultimate terminal desktop but the more I have played on Linux, the more I have spent time in the terminal and I really can’t explain why I find it so charming. Perhaps it is the low memory usage of the applications? The clever modern implementation of certain terminal applications? I can’t really say, but there is something incredibly charming about the terminal.

Turn off Monitor using CLI

This is another gift to future me from present me. I made the mistake of not properly writing this down before so I had to search for the answer. The problem is, sometimes, it seems as though Plasma is not shutting off my external screens consistently. I can’t say why but I have a suspicion that it is due to a specific communication application as I can almost guarantee that it is preventing my screens from turning off. I don’t have definitive proof of this so I am not going to put it in writing.

BDLL Followup

Keyboards and mechanical keyboard talk

openSUSE Corner

Release Team to have retrospective meeting about openSUSE Leap 15.2

Members of the openSUSE community had two retrospective meeting on the release of openSUSE Leap 15.2 after receiving feedback from the recent survey.

Leap 15.2 Install party @ GOLEM – A quick report

Italian Linux users did an openSUSE Leap 15.2 Launch Party, at the local LUG (it’s called GOLEM, it’s in a small town in central Italy), and Dario Faggioli made a quick report.

Tumbleweed Roundup

• 20200729 Stable 99
  • plasma5-workspace (5.19.3 -> 5.19.4)

• 20200730 Stable 99
  • MozillaFirefox (78.0.2 -> 79.0) Numerous CVEs addressed
  • snapper (0.8.11 -> 0.8.12)
    • Subpackages: libsnapper5 snapper-zypp-plugin
    • fixed error when using mksubvolume to create /tmp (bsc#1174401)
  • yast2 (4.3.17 -> 4.3.19)

• 20200731 Stable 99
  • ghostscript
    • CVE-2020-15900.patch fixes CVE-2020-15900 Memory Corruption
    • cf. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702582 (bsc#1174415)
  • kernel-source (5.7.9 -> 5.7.11)
    • iwlwifi: Make some Killer Wireless-AC 1550 cards work again (bnc#1012628).
    • dpaa_eth: Fix one possible memleak in dpaa_eth_probe (bnc#1012628).
    • m68k: nommu: register start of the memory with memblock (bnc#1012628).
    • m68k: mm: fix node memblock init (bnc#1012628).
    • clk: qcom: gcc: Add GPU and NPU clocks for SM8150 (bnc#1012628).
    • ALSA USB-audio bug fix, driver improvements for realtek audio
    • Improvements to USB Serial
    • Intel_th added support for Jasper Lake CPU

• 20200801 Score of a moderate 80
  • autoyast2 (4.3.31 -> 4.3.32)
  • yast2-packager (4.3.5 -> 4.3.6)
  • Several Python packages received updates

• 20200802 Pending Score of a Stable 92
  • bash
  • gcc10 (10.1.1+git290 -> 10.2.1+git465)
  • nodejs14 (14.5.0 -> 14.6.0)
  • rhino (1.7R3 -> 1.7.7.1)
  • skopeo (1.1.0 -> 1.1.1)

• 20200803 Pending Score of a Stable 93
  • aaa_base (84.87+git20200708.f5e90d7 -> 84.87+git20200507.e2243a4)
    • Too many improvements to list but suffice to say, lots of code cleanup and bug fixes
  • adwaita-qt (1.1.1 -> 1.1.4)
  • dnsmasq (2.81 -> 2.82)
  • polkit (0.116 -> 0.117)
    • memory management fixes
    • read-only-root-fs (1.0+git20200121.5ed8d15 -> 1.0+git20200730.1243fd0)
  • As an aside, bluetooth audio is properly working again.

• 20200804 pending Stable 97
  • iso-codes (4.4 -> 4.5.0)
  • ncurses (6.2.20200613 -> 6.2.20200711)
    • fixed pound sign mapping in acsc
    • additional changes for building with visual Studio C++

Computer History Retrospective

Computer Chronicles – Printers

At this time, printers were divided up in two classes, impact and non-impact. Emerging technology in in laser printers was being developed.

Final Thoughts

Life can be full of surprises, sometimes you can get a curve-ball thrown at you. It might really throw a wrench in your plans and mess up your plans in life.

Don’t put it off, don’t ignore it. Face that challenge head on. Begin immediately on unwinding the bailiwick. I promise you won’t regret that decision.

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