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2021-07-11 - Old Computer Challenge - Day 2 - cel https://celehner.com/2021/07/oldcomp/day2.txt gemini://celehner.com/2021/07/oldcomp/day2.txt - listening to tilderadio and anonradio with mpv or mpg123. - toffeesha.re not working in arcticfox. used work computer for it - ram is 1.2G. not limiting because don't feel like it. maybe could put to use the extra 700M somehow? - thought about posting to tilde.news, but soapdog did already. good. https://tilde.news/s/jh3foq/solene_old_computer_challenge - posted about the challenge to tilde.town bbj. - relying on work computer for calendar. may look into using evolution or command-line calendar software. - peertube no work in arcticfox. maybe could work in mpv or something - vertical bars in this LCD make reading IRC more difficult because of white text on black background. - installed noto-fonts-emoji (void pkg) for viewing emoji in claws mail - curl https://celehner.com/2021/07/oldcomp/day2-neofetch.ansi - noisy fans. even when set CPU governor to powersave. - no suspend. feels wasteful leaving house with computer running like i would usually with laptop, fans running constantly. - x86 old computer could suspend. but i picked this ppc one. - no nodejs for ppc, so still have ssb server on modern computer, using patchfoo in dillo with http forwarded through ssh. - the old computer challenge i should be doing is to install the imac g3 power supply i got on ebay a few months ago for repair. but i probably won't have time, considering my weekend is now up. - i'm writing this as text files not because of compute limitations but because of writing limitation and time constraint (wanting to go to sleep) - copied pgp keyring - have encrypted root partition on this computer, with unlocking in grub. set up a few months ago. - other hardware info: onboard audio not working, although it has worked before in debian. i'm using a usb audio adapter and that works fine. - onboard broadcom wifi works but not very well - has trouble connecting to my home network. so i'm using a usb wifi adapter, from thinkpenguin. - hard disk is a 256GB m.2 stick, in a IDE adapter from aliexpress. - still setting up ssh authorized keys - trying to get more organized with dotfiles in git repos. i used to use a dotfile repo but then stopped and just did things manually. - using dillo-zet, with zet directory in dotfiles. https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25R1c3tDmS57iZ5G%2Bg4UkLSWQehG%2FWUVLd1Y9XkTlng8Y%3D.sha256 - reading in IRC channel what other people are doing and using for rss feeds - asking in IRC about calendar software recommendations - responses on sdf.org were that the spec limitations or bar for what is "old computer" are considered different there. - started trying to port PopCorn client to C from Go. PopCorn is a software popularity contest software package for Void Linux. https://celehner.com/2021/07/oldcomp/popcorn.c - continued using android cell phone as usual. transfered photos with sftp. - posting these notes on ssb.