rho @rho@fosstodon.org

Spent some time last week working with the pocket chip. A bit of that time included rearranging the homepage launcher.

#screenshotsunday

A week or so ago I hastily purchased this little network-attached TV tuner and a cheap antenna to watch World Cup on a local ota Telemundo station.

I've gotta say I'm impressed! The picture is very good, and the little device just works. I can watch the stream from VLC or use a plugin on the Kodi box on the TV. I'm by no means a fan of network television, but this setup already has me thinking about possible upgrades/improvements.

Welp there goes my weekend.

Harvested a nice flush of peppers today. Started a lacto ferment with most of them for some eventual hot sauce.

Shishitos (let them go too long but still delicious), serranos, and a yellow scotch bonnet.
#gardening #fermentation

A bit warm for it this evening, but few things clear my mind as well as tending a fire. Solutions to long standing problems, perspective on where I am in my life, generally just stopping and checking in with myself.

Tweaked the nmon options for the tiny Cloudshell2 display. I found this much more useful than the default from https://github.com/DaveBurkhardt/cloudshell-nmon

CPU and Drive activity at a glance and removed network activity, as it made very little sense when using a bunch of docker containers.

After install you can tweak this by editing /bin/cloudshell-nmon and changing the default option string near the bottom.
This output uses:
export NMON=xtfcdG

#libreops

Swapped the stock fan in the CloudShell 2 to something quieter.

Fit perfectly and sooo much better.

Made it to San Antonio today for BSidesSATX, and I gotta say, it's a bit weird to see this particular sponsor.

Some beautiful thunderstorms rolling by Austin today.

Very eager to jump into this one!
I grew up in Lubbock, and spent a lot of time on local BBSes. Often I'd read cDc textfiles when I was waiting on my move allotment for TradeWars 2002 to increment. I was a bit too young to fully understand what I was reading, but I was completely fascinated.

First few tomatoes coming off the vine!

Stair building done! No more jumping up the wall to the garden.

Rather than continuing with LibreELEC on the Odroid C2, I decided to check out CoreELEC.

CoreELEC is a more ARM focused distro, and runs the new 18.x (Leia) version of Kodi. Installation was simple on an eMMC and I ran into no issues

The new Kodi version is apparently better able to handles streaming video, and I was able to install a Netflix addon which was never possible before! It also seems like there are some nifty "Live TV" PVR/DVR integrations available now that look very interesting.

First peppers out of the garden! Got an early start with the vegetables this season so looking like it'll be a good year.

Recently I dug up an old bakelite straight key to get back into practicing Morse. I purchased it a couple years ago at a ham swap, looking for the cheapest key I could find ($10). While messing with it I got curious about it's manufacturer so took a closer look to the tag on the inside. Turns out it was produced in East Germany in a cold war era Leipzig. O_o

Finding nmon on the tiny Cloudshell2 LCD both hilarious and fantastic.

#libreops

Put together the Cloudshell2 this evening, and tried to capture an overhead time-lapse of me bumbling around. The picture is pretty awful, but it was a fun experiment. I'd like to do this again for other projects, but I need to rethink my bench lighting and exposure.

Enjoying a beer and some light botvac surgery this evening.

*double checks backups*

Almost have all the components together for a little CloudShell2 NAS. That last drive can't come fast enough!