Woke up early, taking a COVID test. Three people sick, including me. Possibly one dog sick as well. First thing, at home COVID test.

Negative, so I’ll be okay, and so will my mom, dad, and puppy, and cat.

Drink some more water, and then going back to sleep.

Still going to make a wooden box for it. They thought of using a poker set box thing for it, in the meantime. We will have more time to make the wooden box.

Don’t play poker myself, so didn’t even think of that myself. Only thing I thought of that might work, is some kind of Nintendo Switch case. But finding one in town, that is $30 or so less, and hard like the poker chip case, might be hard. Also, this thing is bigger probably as well.

He only wanted the chips, so we used the case for this. Needed to do it, so we know what to do with the wooden one.

The keyboard only has to be flipped over, when closing it. No tape or anything needed, for the stuff on the bottom. All fits in there perfectly. My battery doesn’t provide enough power, but that is an easy fix. And if using inside, I can plug it in as well.

The screen I used was a SunFounder 7 Inch Touchscreen for Pi 5, RPI 4,1024X600 IPS Display, USB HDMI Portable Mini Monitor, Upgraded 7in Touch Screen for RPI 4 Monitor with Stand and Dual Speakers.

The touch part works fine as far as I can tell. Came with a thing for the back, and can use it, without the Pi being attached to behind the screen. Benefits in keeping the Pi how it is. But benefits in doing the other way too. Even if the NVMe HAT, doesn’t fit with the back part, we could figure something out, if I don’t use the case for the wooden one.

Seeing this one, also helps, too, now we can see what we should do.

He used some rivets or something, to attach the plastic back thing to the case. Will do that with the wooden case too, most likely. He had the right rivets, didn’t need to buy much to use this.

The foam stuff I bought at Michaels. SOme stuff for the wooden one, can likely be bought there as well. Need hinges I think for that. The white thing by the screen is the foam stuff.

It had some kind of “foam” stuff in the bottom part, where the other stuff is. He removed the one it came with from the top. Will likely use more foam with the wooden one too. The wooden box, will require sanding, so will take some time.

The PSU for the Pi, is 45W. But, the voltage the PSU does is different. And the screen uses power as well, and it needs two USB ports. One for touch, and one for power. And HDMI for display. HDMI is nice, as I can hook other stuff up to it, if I want to. But they make small touch screen, that attach with a HAT too.

When I use it soon, I will test the speakers as well. The screen part works. That’s another reason I got this one, no seperate speakers, in case I want speakers.

Well, the PSU might be overkill for the Pi 5 itself. But, the screen likely uses power too. That battery is only 15W. Which isn’t enogh, but the voltage and amp might be enough. Might need at least 27W.

Was probably a CanaKit kit. Or maybe the Pi 5 needs 5 amps, which that battery isn’t.

Easy way to figure it out, without searching, use the power supply thing I have that says voltage and stuff.

Or go to the Raspberry Pi site, and it says 5V/5A, the official one is 27w.

Hmm, could put the Nintendo 64 in a box of some kind, and hook it up to a screen like that. I have a USB Type-C PSU for the 64. It uses under 20W, according to the bottom of Nintendo 64. Portable Nintendo 64. Don’t need touch screen part on it. Also, I think I hooked battery up wrong, might be able to plug it all into the screen. No problem, didn’t use the 3D printed case I bought, and might not. Kept it in case we use it.

The screen might only use 480mA. 30W might be enough then. Even 27W might be enough. Extra power can be helpful. The voltage is the same. And might not matter how anyone hooks it up.

Uses 5v as well. I have an Energizer USB battery. Looking on Best Buy’s site, to see if they have anything.

I knew the battery I have might not work. I can give it to somebody, since I probably won’t need it.

mophie - Powerstation 10,000mAh Power Bank (Gen 3) might work, does 30W.

Best Buy doesn’t seem to say the voltage, now to look at Staples. If they have one that could work, I can just go in there, and look at them. Best Buy is by it as well.

Wonder how many double A batteries, it takes to get 5v and 30W.

Got plenty of double A batteries.

Looks like a USB battery is going to be easier to find, going into a store. Pickups, I could do, but Best Buy might not actually have it. Might as well find it in a store, and then buy it. Or get the double A thing if that would even work.

Adafruit has stuff, but some stuff is out of stock. I’ll remember the other site that has that kind of stuff soon. Searching now, but Harbor Freight might have something too. Wrong kind of batteries. Maybe Batteries+.

Sparkfun might be it. Basically, buy a battery, and that stuff to “make” one. Can replace the battery if I need to. I know somebody, that likely can help me make a box for it. Michaels has plastic. 3D printers are right for some people. But, I prefer doing things this way. Also, I like how wood looks. But not needed for a battery box. I know somebody with a 3D printer, but I don’t want to stress them out. And more fun to make my own. Then I’ll know how. And I can talk to the person helping me.

6Ah is only 6000mAh. It’s under $50 on Sparkfun. Not the worst price. Would want at least two. Adafruit is cheaper, but I like buying from one place.

A RC car battery might work. Get a downbooster, and two batteries. Hobby Town is gone, but plenty of places online, besides Sparkfun.

Maybe not an RC car battery. Might cost more. But there’s a different hobby store. Might just go there when I can. If it’s open, there’s somebody to ask for help as well. Hmm does Batteries+ sell other things, like the converters or a downbooster?

USB battery or make my own? What is better, depends on the person. But I have a 300w power station. The wood is weighs more then this poker set case. And it would add some weight. But, I wouldn’t have to pay much. And I don’t have to put it in anything, plug AC adapter right into it.

Well, I can figure it out soon. Got to sleep soon. Better to talk to somebody about it, then just buy random stuff.

Got a library card, my old one expired long ago.

Now I can stream stuff for free.

But can I pay to watch more? Probably not.

Just need to find stuff on time. Did anyone prove we invented it yet? Other then somebody who has a near death experience and said God said we invented time.

It might exist, but we still could have invented it.

Well, if I search for time, I get results, but I’m too lazy to click each one. Too lazy to read anything on the streaming video site anyways. Also, too hard to read much anyways.

I’m gonna need some new eyes, that are wide open.

Maybe Greek Mythology is easier to find. Also, wondering if anyone can imagine something 100% out of thin air. If not, then I really wonder about Greek Mythology.

Well, I have enough personal experiences, to know time may have been invented, and makes no sense. And it would be funny, if a bunch of words had to be removed.

Also, why don’t we speak certain languages anymore? And was there a religion before the first known one we found?

Well, this Android phone sucks ass. I’ll go back to other phone eventually maybe. Might want a different service though. And one that doesn’t need an app to get an eSIM, cause I’m not putting any apps on it. I don’t really want a phone anymore, but good luck doing that.

Shouldn’t have to buy a Pixel phone either. Not a fan of giving Google money.

The Light Phones, might use Android, well, in that case, it’s way overpriced. And the $300 one, is now shipping in May. Was April before. What will it be in May? Well, I probably won’t look again. And the more expensive one, could get in March, but won’t pay that, for an Android phone. Or an iPhone.

Want an eINK display. But they might all basically be Android. But eINK has good battery life. And nice and slow like me.

Hmm, maybe I have brain damage, wouldn’t surprise me one bit. How do I get a new brain?

I came shooting out of my mom after all, and I hit my head on the ceiling too.

Or maybe I came out of the sun’s asshole, and hit my head on a tree.

Well, if watching Philo, it makes more sense to use a web browser, on the Atari VCS.

Well, I was trying to stream a web browser from my desktop. And had an audio issue. Then I tried streaming Mythtv. And then I remembered I reset the cache settings. And at some point, I thought I probably never even fixed Mythtv completely, because if I stream from it long enough, then it has an issue.

Well, Kodi is way too much work then. Also, using a web browser, could mean the audio will be in sync more likely, without doing anything. But I could only tell if something was in sync long ago. I had shitty soundbars for too long, I stopped paying attention. Might notice if the lips are completely out of sync, but it’ll have to be pretty damn obvious.

Tried using a web browser VNC thing, could have worked, but it crapped out in two different browsers. Thought a different VNC thing would work, well could, if I wanted to fuck with settings. Then wasted time trying to connect to KDE’s RDP, basically said connection error. Well searching the internet isn’t very helpful. Somebody might have said something about Sunshine.

Was worth trying, as it works fine in Debian.

Oddly, if I stream from openSUSE Tumbleweed to the Steam Deck with Sunshine, it has issues. Well, I can use Moonlight without fucking with Kodi now on the Atari VCS, so I can see if it too has an issue. Maybe it’s cause the Steam Deck is plugged into a USB dock thing using the Ethernet on it, WiFi could be worse though. Well, might not need the Steam Deck anyways now.

Probably won’t buy any games on Steam anyways. I do kind of like the Steam Deck though, so I might just hoard it for no reason.

I might just need to reset the settings I changed in Sunshine in openSUSE Tumbleweed as well if it has whatever issue it had. Also, it’s probably a pre release version in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Well, I think it says that on the web interface.

It’s compiled though, and last time I tried a compiled already version it wouldn’t work at all, in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Using rolling release distros people say is better for games, but not sure that applies to me at all anymore. How old is this computer? Debian might be just fine on it.

The deb package for Sunshine, didn’t seem to have the .service file, or the udev rules. I searched the drive after installing it, maybe not everywhere, couldn’t find either. So I copied it from my desktop running openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it works.

Didn’t check the deb archive. The next step said to start the service. Well, didn’t work. So got that, then it still didn’t work, no UDEV rules. So they either have broken instructions, or a broken deb package or maybe both.

Well, speaking of broken, some people break their dicks. I never had to go to the vet myself for that though.

Did I already say, that Kodi might play videos from a network share, including Samba, might have only tried Samba, without issues? Well, I guess network shares aren’t exactly the same as streaming. So maybe it can’t do anything live very good without fucking with it.

Too lazy to install LibreElec just to use Kodi. Also I did that, and had issues anyways. Somebody said you don’t need LibreElec, well I likely had issues. And also forgot I tried that until now. Might have tried the one for newer shit and old shit, and had some kind of issue with both, or didn’t actually fix an issue I was having with something else.

And if you want the newest version of Kodi in Debian you have to use the Flatpak, or compile yourself, or look on the internet and find a compiled one that isn’t a Flatpak.

How long does anyone want to spend trying to fix something on the computer? Well, I clearly spent way too long fucking with Kodi. Should have just thought of trying Sunshine to begin with, and never bothered with Kodi. I can remote control it, and my Bluetooth universal remote can pause and unpause a playing video. And someday, I’ll have a wooden box for my Raspberry Pi 5, and it’ll be like a laptop, with a real keyboard. Better then any “smart” phone. I could make calls with it if I wanted to. But opening that thing to make and receive calls/texts, would be a pain. And using Bluetooth headphones or something with a microphone, not that great either.

Should be able to power it all with my USB battery. There’s probably some USB battery that can, so I didn’t test that. But I tested the screen, powered using USB from the Pi 5. So assuming this thing can provide enough power, and voltage, it should work. If not, I might be able to find one that can.

But I have something that should power it no problem, a 300 watt power station. It’s big though. But I got a backpack, not sure both the Pi and that power station will fit in it. I think he cut the wood today. It’ll be smaller then the briefcase I paid $5 for at a Thrift Store. Not really a lost, as it showed me, that I should have waited to buy anything, and if I did, I would have only spent $5, instead of $5 + $21. The $5 thing is worth what I paid. I basically bought trash for $21 for the other thing. Not worth sending back at all. Won’t pay a penny to ship it back, and too lazy to email them.

Can’t buy the exact right thing I want. Also, might as well make it look how I want. I like stuff made out of wood better then plastic. So another reason not to have a 3D printer, and never get one again. Also, I know somebody that knows how to make stuff out of wood. Doesn’t really seem like it’s more work then a 3D printer. How much stuff did I print? Seems like I mostly just fixed the damn thing, or did maintenance. Well, the belt broke, then I broke my wrist, then I got rid of it eventually. Don’t like removing it from the enclosure to fix it, and don’t want to bad enough. Also, still don’t know if the fumes are good or not for a cat, or me or anybody else. It’s plastic, so maybe not.

I was using Kodi not in KDE, and my Bluetooth remote, wasn’t waking it up. Well, Bluetooth was turned off. Works now though. And if Kodi works better in KDE, well too lazy/don’t care enough to use it. I can do everything without it, VLC and a web browser, should do pretty much everything I do. I can install something else if I need anything else. I can use that Retro thing without Kodi as well. Actually, probably easier to use that without it, forgot all about that till now as well.

Well, Sunshine might be annoying, if the computer ever sleeps. Cause I can access web interface, but Moonlight can’t connect. Do I have to “unpair” it? But then I might have to repair it. Guess I just have to restart it, there’s two ways, web interface, or terminal. Or make it restart itself, when you wake it up.

I’m guessing the problem is, if I turn the TV off, without quitting the session in Moonlight. Realized that when turning the TV off. The remote may be setup to send something to the Atari VCS too, when I shut it down. Well, terminating the session on the host, is that possible from a keyboard? Without using a mouse? That’s what I should send to it. Well, the Pi will be done eventually anyways. Maybe.

Might be random, cause it’s working fine.

How does using Moonlight to control something, to start Moonlight, and then stream steam back to the other device work? Well, the Steam Controller can probably control KDE anyways. And now I don’t need to use remote or get off ass, or make remote which acts like a keyboard work with Chromium.