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@SammysHP Again, the devices in question actually use three cells (4.5v nominal) will tolerate 4.8 but not 4.05. So can’t substitute one cell for two in series. Could probably regulate down from a higher voltage but then you get the noise issues again.

@SammysHP The reason I use Alkaline in some applications is I have some devices where voltage is important and they will not run on 1.35 NiMH voltage but they will run on 1.6 Alkaline voltage. But I agree, performance is bad. Unfortunately the 1.5v lithium ion cells aren’t really 1.5v, they’re 3.7 or so and regulated down. This causes two issues, the regular introduces a lot of RF noise, and the voltage is flat right up to the point of complete exhaustion so you can’t tell when the battery is ready to crap out.

@SammysHP That’s great except just how many primary batteries do you need to replace before this thing pays for itself? Pricing is not justified. I spent a whole of $30 for a unit from popular mechanics of all places. it charges every chemistry except lithium ion, I have separate chargers for those, does so individually for each battery so I can put say an NiMH in one slot, an alkaline in another, and it will charge as appropriate for each.

@TCB13 Problem is by being one big bloatware, rather than a set of small discrete tools, if one part of it misbehaves, your entire system is toast instead of just removing, replacing, or fixing that one part. That’s why that philosophy belongs in Windows NOT Linux.

@TCB13 @petsoi It seems to me that systemd is going the exact opposite of the original Unix philosophy of make a tool for a specific task, make it do it’s task well, and then use the necessary tools for the job, systemd is becoming one big piece of bloatware that gets in the way of use rather than helps it.

@jorge Been using this for a long time.

@imgel What I’d love to see for pipewire is a working port of pulse-effects. I really miss the capabilities that provided and it will not work with pulse-pipewire, I’ve tried.

@theshatterstone54 Get no argument from me, another way that Wayland is broken is with an application running on one machine but displaying on another, which was a large part of the original X protocol. Between this and the fact that I’m running Intel graphics for which there exists an in-kernel Xserver, I continue to run Xorg.

@Phanlix Gnome did a number of things that irritated me when it went to version 3, then I found Mate which behaves like old Gnome 2 but ported to modern GTK. Much nicer.

@jrgd @potentiallynotfelix It is simply less capable than Spice, no support for accelerated 3D graphics.

@ikidd @potentiallynotfelix It has no support for accelerated 3D graphics, spice with open-gl does this.

@corsicanguppy It’s an issue I’ve encountered more than once and this has always resolved it. If you want to load Spywar back onto your machine, be my guest.

@oyzmo I would start by going into Network Manager, delete all the interfaces, and rebuild from scratch, then reboot and try again.

@randomcruft @fakeplastic I’m not real comfortable with my data on someone else’s computer, but triply so if that somebody is Microsoft, Gargoyle, or Amazon.

@floppingfish Might check places on your desktop.

@1984 Glad for you. I think some of my issues arise from the fact that I only use it occasionally, keys get stale.

@floppingfish It says operation already pending. In Ubuntu and many other Linux distros, when you plug in a USB device it mounts automatically, take a look at df and see if you don’t have a new partition mounted somewhere you didn’t expect.

@1984 @Dop I find approximately 10% of the AUR packages at any given time won’t build and a given package may remain broken for many moths.

@pastermil If you want a newer kernel than is provided in the apt package manager, you can download the latest from kernel.org, unxz it with unxz kernel-version.tar.xz, then untar it. It will give you a directory like linux-6.14.6, cd to that directory and do a make mrproper to remove any residual crap that might have been left there by the maintainer or a previous build, then if you want the stock debian configuration copy the current config file from /boot to .config, then make any adjustments to the .config, including some automatic adjustments that get made for your environment with make config, make menuconfig, makexconfig, make gconfig, whatever you prefer. For xconfig and gconfig which are graphical configuration GUIs you may need to install some libs that aren’t installed by default on Debian but ARE provided in your apt package manager. Then make -j$(NPROC) bindeb-pkg, for example on my machine 18 cores, 36 threads, I would do make -j36 bindeb-pkg to fully utilize the CPU cores, on the 18 core machine this takes about 7 minutes, on my 8 core workstation about 18, when it’s done you’ll be left with three or four .deb packages (depending upon whether or not save DEBUG is turned on or off in the kernel config). When you are done install the packages with dpkg -i *.deb, check /boot and your new kernel should be installed.

@possiblylinux127 To be sure, but I assume since he was formerly running Windows performance wasn’t an issue. No, it’s obvious he is more concerned with getting the clutter factor down so he stated a preference for a single large drive, and if data isn’t important or backed up some other media fine. If not, then you risk losing your data because sooner later drives fail. If performance was really the goal he’d raid a bunch of nvme drives together. This, by the way, is what I do for the system that runs this friendica node, along with an 18 core processor and 256 gb of RAM.