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Seshan "Doing weird things with computers" Ravikumar • he/him • (beware, you *will* see cursed linux things) (also transit stuff occasionally) • Waterloo Geomatics '25 • I post for my own historical record! Also @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy
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The Big Move™ has been completed!!! After some running around and panicking, the router/firewall powering Sineware services has been migrated from a TP-Link Omada ER605 running OpenWRT to an Intel N100 Router Mini PC running OPNsense.

Installed a Zigbee Garage Door Opener! Unfortunately this is a Tuya device, and Tuya does not follow the standard Zigbee library, so I needed to add a quirk to ZHA to make it work properly in Home Assistant (courtesy of the fine folks in this GitHub issue […] [Original post on social.sineware.ca]

New video on the channel! (Building a GBS Control Video Scaler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLUDSrFBhs

It’s VyOS time

Wow (unsurprisingly) using Component video and a nice Upscaler (In this case a GBS Control custom design from RetroScaler) makes a HUGE difference with the PS2 compared to composite and a generic AV2HDMI lol

Linux (5.4), Gentoo no less, on the PS2!!!! This is so cool

GAMING

IDE SSD shenanigans on the Japanese Inspiron

Oops! All Wii Fit!

Picked up this Panasonic CF-RZ6 from a store in Akihabara, it’s pretty neat! It’s a 10” convertible with full sized HDMI, VGA, and Ethernet (!!!). Feels great physically too, gonna be a great laptop when I need to quickly run to my servers physically to do maintenance and such.

Shout out to KEYDB.cfg 🫡

Japan trip update: having a great time with an Inspiring i bought from a Hard Off and this K-On CD from a store in Akiba

That ladies and gentlemen is a literal box of 5 dollar iPod touches

you wouldn't check this post's atproto record

hello tokyo!

Vulkan 1.4 was released today and the Asahi Linux GPU driver is already conformant! ✨✨ (And now you know why I was streaming working on timestamps ^^) social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/...

goobye sf

You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.

Am I crazy or does Google not show the “Did you mean” spell correction a lot of time now?

Well hello everyone! Welcome to Adrian's Digital Basement on Bluesky! Yes I'm here now to bring some retro to these blue skies.

well i guess this is gonna be a thing i'll want to care about to be mainstream. yay American hegemony sup folks, i work on #postmarketOS, i make upstream #Linux and U-Boot run on #Qualcomm hardware, and generally have a lot to say about upstream embedded stuff™ boost to help me find community :3

In case you haven't read it before: Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/07/fast... #SteamDeck #Linux

Since I'm going to be using Bluesky more now, it's probably time to setup a Sineware PDS lol

Mildy cursed but Apple Music (in Chromium PWA) + PreMiD lets me have listening status set in Discord

How I feel currently