cmeerw

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Anyone got any experience with running Linux on a Chuwi Freebook N100 yet?

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

Also the location of known Wifi networks.

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

There is also lowendspirit, but in both cases you have to be very careful what you buy - not everything that is advertised there will work as advertised or will work long-term

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

where they will double your monthly data limit for free when you comment your order number.

where they use you to spam the forum thread (for giving away something rarely anyone has any use for)

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 59 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"secure alternative"? Others are not secure?

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use them as IMAP storage for a few mailing lists I am subscribed to (but not for my main emails), but they do reject legitimate emails from time to time (not often, but it does happen - and those emails don't show up in "Spam" or any logs).

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I have had pretty good experience with hosting an email server on AlphaVPS, InceptionHosting and just now GreenCloudVPS.

GreenCloudVPS currently have a promotion until Sunday, and there are usually promotions around Black Friday on LowEndSpirit and LowEndTalk

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn't be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that's pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn't show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).

[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I am actually using a OrangePiPC as:

  • WLAN access point (hostapd)
  • LTE Internet via a E3372 USB dongle
  • radio via DVB-T dongle/Internet
  • USB speakers for the radio
  • Bluetooth dongle to connect to Bluetooth-enabled speaker in another room
  • USB temperature sensor, motion sensors via GPIO
  • VoIP telephone with connected USB headset
  • small LCD display to show the current temperature and incoming call information
[–] cmeerw@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been using phpwiki for the past 20 years or so.

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