I'm on my work-supplied laptop -- A Thinkpad T14 with AMD Ryzen Pro 5, and the audio is quite good. I wouldn't necessarily expect that from a laptop made for the business market.

(Running Windows 11)

#Thinkpad

@ottobackwards There are some excellent lute players out there, and she is at the top. Playing Bach well is difficult on any instrument, and the lute seems like a beast.

Which remote access tool is the best for your use case https://www.xda-developers.com/tailscale-pangolin-zerotier-netbird-remotely-access-home-lab/

#homelab

Now that I'm back in GNOME (via Fedora Silverblue), I am also back in the Tuba Fediverse client. I still had Tokodon installed from my time with Kinoite, but it stopped working for some reason.

#Fedora #AtomicFedora #Silverblue #Kinoite

I forgot to mention that I did my package update in Xfce:

$ doas pkg_add -u

and the GUI went "blank" in the middle.

I was able to switch over to a console (ctrl-alt-F2) and continue to monitor the process, after which I did an orderly reboot. Everything was OK after that (except for the previously mentioned Firefox and Thunderbird issues, also since resolved).

The package upgrades usually take much longer than the base system upgrade, and that's where "adjustments" might be needed.

I already knew from a Reddit thread that I would have to either wait for a new Firefox, or reinstall it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1k9ayo9/comment/mpecyfe/

The same was true for Thunderbird.

The versions in 7.7 are slightly behind those in 7.6.

I was back in business after:

$ doas pkg_delete firefox

$ doas pkg_delete thunderbird

$ doas pkg_add firefox

$ doas pkg_add thunderbird

I did the OpenBSD 7.7 upgrade last night. The OpenBSD portion of the operation went well, as usual.

After the reboot, my networking was a little spotty. I'm not sure if that's a driver issue or a router issue. It's working at the moment (I'm closer to the router for a better WiFi signal).

#OpenBSD

I added @rl_dane's blog to my feed reader (which is Thunderbird)

https://rldane.space/

https://rldane.space/feeds/all.atom.xml

Amazing excerpt from pianist Brad Mehldau's memoir, here recounting his reaction to and immersion in the NYC jazz scene of the 1980s. So far this is some of the best jazz-related writing I've ever seen. https://jazztimes.com/features/special-feature/halcyon-days/

#jazz

OpenBSD 7.7 is here https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

#OpenBSD

I intended to get done with work on my monthly Saturday shift, and it happened.

We have tix to Marc Maron, so I had an incentive.

First time for a version upgrade that didn't require config.yaml edits. Nice!

As usual, everything is working https://gts.passthejoe.net

It seems trivial, but the new Adwaita Mono font is making GNOME 48 very much worth it

#gnome #gnome48 #Fedora #fedora42

It's #GoToSocial upgrade day: 0.18.x to 0.19.0 ... the database migrations are underway.

Pangolin is my new self-hosted best friend for my home lab https://www.xda-developers.com/alternative-to-tailscale-or-nginx-remote-access-home-lab/

@GoatsLive I should have replaced the motor. Once a load ends, you have to wait about a half-hour before starting another because of some thermal switch inside the motor.

It's not so much the $100 for the motor but having to take EVERYTHING apart to do the job, plus hearing that the connections to the "new" motors aren't exactly the same, and people are stumped.

Easily (for me) an all-day job.

Just checking in to report that Fedora Silverblue 42 with GNOME 48 is running very smoothly.

Both Fedora and GNOME seem to be getting better and quicker, even though my 2017 hardware stays the same.

#Fedora #GNOME #Linux

This was my second blower wheel replacement, but my first belt replacement. Can you believe a dryer belt lasted 30 years?

Getting the belt over the drum was fairly easy, since I had it out a couple of other times, and the previous day for the blower wheel replacement.

But getting it threaded around the idler pulley and the motor shaft was difficult.

I had to do it through a little door behind the dryer, and I bruised the hell out of my forearms while muscling it in.

I tend to put "large appliance repair" in my bio. And it's something I actually do.

Over the course of the past two days, I have been repairing our 1990s Maytag made-in-Iowa clothes dryer.

It was making a very loud racket for months.

Eventually I figured out that it needed a new blower wheel -- they are plastic and get stripped out and stop turning with the motor.

Once I replaced that, something I did caused the belt to break.

So today I replaced the belt, and it's quiet and working.