JC Palmer @[email protected]

I don't like stock GNOME, but I do enjoy Glorious Eggroll's GNOME tweaks. It gives me a KDE-like feel with GNOME's strengths.

Decided to distro hop to Nobara, a Fedora fork for gaming, on my main PC. I like Fedora a lot on my work machine, and as much as I love Manjaro, it has always broken itself eventually. I want stability on both my gaming and work PCs. #linux #fedora

GrapheneOS' minimalism strongly encourages me to use the phone less. I quite like it.

Going to test my data analytics skills by making a backlog database that I can query when I'm deciding on a game to play.

I don't think installing a PCI-e sound card will work physically in the server I'm planning to build, though it might work software-wise. Just have Proxmox pass the sound card to the VM running MPD.

Welp, I should have figured this. My NAS doesn't have a sound card, so the only thing MPD can output to is an HTTP stream that's... not good. Perhaps I should just run the MPD server on something else with a built-in sound card, which my current VM host has. But what happens when I move to a blade server in the future?

Playing with running an MPD server off my NAS versus using Plex or NFS connections.

I watched a beginner how-to and I'm still lost. I can only figure out how to build back walls, not siding walls.

So… how do you actually play Terraria?

I *finally* got /e/OS to install properly on my Pixel 4a. The e recovery wasn’t performing a factory reset properly. That might explain my Zenfone 8 issues yesterday, but I’ll test that later. For now, I at last have a Pixel 5 on GrapheneOS and a Pixel 4a on /e/OS, just in time for my article.

So far, attempting to install /e/OS on a Pixel 4a isn't going well. The "easy installer" failed at the ROM download portion, which is laughable (looks like a checksum mismatch, which is odd). So I installed the ROM manually via adb, but I think it's stuck in an infinite boot animation. Perhaps I'm just impatient.

GrapheneOS seems pretty good so far. Committing to a Google-less experience, so I'm getting my apps through F-Droid (which I feel better about anyway).

I managed to get GrapheneOS installed on my Pixel 5 after an attempt at /e/OS nearly bricked the phone. I'm not sure what's up with /e/OS, but the documentation has only led to severe errors.

Wiping data in recovery doesn't seem to work, either. Same symptoms. I'm trying to restore to stock. I'll give /e/ OS a try on my Pixel 5. I might have better luck there.

After I assume the device boots, I get a black screen and a lock sound if I press the power button. Then I think the device shuts off and won't power back on again unless I use the hardware bootloader shortcut. I can load into recovery at least.

Attempting to install @efoundation on an Asus Zenfone 8. The process has not been smooth thus far. I ran into issues with the latest build installing. I got an older build to install over adb properly, but the device still won't boot. I just get a black screen with white bars. I'm not new to custom ROMs, nor /e/ OS, but this is just odd.