I took a lid from jewel box that matched the oak frame dimensions to complete the casing. It's a wooden tablet! Also downgraded to #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W so plenty of room inside. Still, a full-blown #ARM64 #Linux.

It will run dashboard w/#GNU Screen or Lynx etc. to show e.g. #teletext spotprices, weather etc. or random #ANSIart.

#DIY #HomeComputing #LowEnd #Terminal #Monochrome #TextMode #VT102 #CP437

Prototyping display mechanics for my never-ending concept #VT102 terminal project. Oak frame with real glass cost 7 e from the local shop. The passepartout is a bit rough, but it's the best I could do before getting some sharper knives. Maybe I could replace it with a veneer sheet.

#Computing #DIY #LowEnd #Monochrome #epaper

Also #Valve obviously chose wisely what #hardware and #specs the #SteamMachine has - just like the #SteamDeck!

• The Steam Deck was established as long-term bottom-line for #developers to target as #Linux #Gaming #PC and at release it was already faster than 50% of the #Steam #HardwareSurvey results.

Because what the "#PCMasterRace" (the term is shit, please rename yourselves!) refuses to admit is that the vast majority of Steam Users ain't like #LinusTechTips or anyone else who always has the latest #tech and shiniest #hardware to game on, but more often than not it's #casuals playing #IndieGames on old, #refurbushed business hardware who - if anything - could afford some #LowEnd #GPU!

• The Steam Machine is now basically providing a "#HardcoreGaming" target for developers to aim at. For games just not possible on the Steam Deck!

Cuz let's face it: #Nintendo's #Switch2 is an overpriced Piece Of Junk, #PS5 & #PS5Pro sell like shit and #XboxSeries sell so bad #retailers stop offering #SeriesX & #SeriesS consoles because there are no good games worth paying the premium price asked for those.

• #Xbox dying is evidenced by #Halo being released on #PlayStation and Playstation also imploding is by itself not having actual #Exclusives on their platform.

So stop bitchin' that the #GabeCube isn't gonna be a $299 machine, because this thing won't be a locked-down "razor handle" that can only play #Steam games but actual hardware people will own!

#PCMR #LinuxGaming

@ActionRetro well, #TinyCore does work on really #LowEnd systems...

• Tho you could target #i486SX with current #Linux #Kernel versions...
  

Something I aim to do with @OS1337 ...

I pushed out a minor patch to my DiskSumo fork, just to remind myself how the program works and verifying my C64 and 1541 hardware are still OK.

Next goal for me is to rewrite the bottleneck routines in machine code in the following order:
- RS232 character reception polling loop.
- Xmodem packet reception loop & checksum calculation.
- Xmodem packet sending loop.
- Disk sector writes and reads?

https://github.com/aakoskin/DiskSumo

#RetroComputing #Commodore64 #LowEnd #Floppy #XModem #PermaComputing #Slow

When upgrading to #Mastodon v4.4.5, assets recompilation took over 3 hours on 1 GB #RaspberryPi 3, once finally succeeded. The system failed twice at around 90 minutes for whatever reason and required a power cycle (it's headless and couldn't get any logs). I ended up replacing the SD card just in case...

I wonder if I should start to do the "assets:precompile" step on my X86 box and arm64 Cortex-A53 QEMU then just copy stuff to Pi.

Sunday well spent.

#SelfHosting #LowEnd #SoftwareBloat

Finally migrated away from UEVENT_HELPER to netlink-based solution on my #Linux boards.

"... should not be used today, because usual systems create many events at bootup or device discovery in a very short time frame. One forked process per event can create so many processes that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup."

That text was from 2010 but it took till 2025 until my 32 MB #ARM systems failed.

#LowEnd #Computing