XP-Pen 13.3 inch PenDisplay

That’s what lsusb says it is. Had to change my GRUB config, cause I had a fake HDMI display setup. After rebooting, I was able to rotate the drawing tablet.

It’s the Artist 13.3 Pro. Not sure why I bought it, cause I forgot how to draw. Only knew how to draw for a while while in the hospital.

The pressure sensitivity works though. And the pen is really thick. Might be easier to hold onto, then a skinny one. Might also, make my hand hurt. Came with a fancy glove.

And the instruction manual appears to be mostly useless. Barely any info in it. Guess I didn’t need one of the power adapter.

Can use it as a touch screen too.

I’m sure I can find a use for it, without drawing with it. Kind of cool, having a touch screen for my desktop, and Linux.

Instead of drawing, how about scribbling. I noticed if I think too much about what to draw, then I can’t draw it. Noticed that in the hospital.

OpenDrive

Not recommended. If you want to share photos and/or videos you take.

Signed up for 500 GB plan for $6. And it’s too much of a hassle to use.

To share folders with files in it if using Linux, I’d have to manually change the file properties in a web browser. Can change the permissions with WebDAV, but not the file access option. Want to change it to hidden? One at a time in a browser.

People claim it can be done with Windows.

The permissions said 644 for all the files, including the one I shared. Also, the iOS app can’t auto backup photos.

Too much of a hassle to use it, so not worth paying for again.

Canceled PayPal subscription, and deleted my account using the iOS app.

Guess if using Linux, MEGA is the only option. There’s pCloud, but that’s super cheap, and who knows when it’ll stop working.

Also, downloading from OpenDrive is slow.

Self hosting with a 10 Mbps or less upload speed, not a good option.

And according to one Reddit comment two years ago, pCloud terminates accounts, claiming copyright infringement. People who it happened to claimed family photos. Hard to say who’s telling the truth. But pCloud is super cheap, if you get a lifetime plan. MEGA it is, a little under $6 a month, for 750 GB.

I used it, without any issues. If I store anything sensitive, I can encrypt it myself.

Looks like it works with rclone as well, no need for their software in Linux.

It’s in Euros, just like two other providers I looked at. Well, probably got the nice foreign transaction fee then.

Too lazy to use a VPS and host my own thing, also dedicated server would be more private. But not private enough, need it in my apartment. Also, Comcast likes crapping out, and more likely, if I’m uploading. Just downloading can too. Maybe doing both would be even more likely. Or maybe the modem I bought fixed that. The last modem they gave me, started crapping out too. Was only using their modem, because of the free internet, they claimed I had to use their modem to qualify.

No more free internet, and too lazy to return modems over and over again.

I was going to setup syncthing, to send photos from phone to device on network. But the app, said not for backing up data. So decided not to use it. Even though it has some feature of backing up photos.

immich not a great option, if wanting to use Podman, and a version before 5.0. Armbian doesn’t have 5.0. I did compile it on the Orange Pi 5 though. But not doing that on Pi. Wonder how outdated that is now on the Orange Pi.

Clogged my own crapper

Apparently my crapper can’t take much toilet paper either. After leaving hospital, I clogged my mom’s crapper up first.

Well, the other person that uses that crapper at my mom’s, uses four squares only. But I think it would be easier to use my bare hand, then a square of toilet paper.

Got a removable shower head, that can help clean it up too.

Also, good thing I’m wearing glasses to the bathroom now. Cause, I might not see shit on crapper seat without them on.

One of the kids, left shit on the crapper seat at my mom’s. And then if somebody puts the lid down, it smears it. I wonder, did I do that too, when I was a kid? I did get blood on the crapper seat once.

Well, I went to use the crapper at her house today, and a bunch of people were over there, and didn’t even look at seat before sitting down. Never checked my ass, so no idea if I sat in anything.

Well, I only need a yellow ball sack net, for the toilets at medical places. My crapper not the same, and neither is my mom’s. That reminds me, I could have peed in a “hat”, instead of a cup. Who’s hat? Somebody told me some story about somebody peeing in somebody’s boots once.

I haven’t gotten the privilege to pee in boots, nor a hat.

Also, aren’t Wasabi camera batteries supposed to swell up? Camera wouldn’t turn on, and Wasabi battery came out no problem. Put other battery in, and camera turned on. Wasabi battery is charging now. The used camera came with a Wasabi battery and charger.

I bought a Jupio battery. Are those made in Japan? Maybe. But Wasabi actually is charging. Some rechargeable AA and AAA batteries, that died completely, couldn’t recharge.

The Wasabi charger seems cheap, but it works. Not sure any of the chargers on B&H are really that much better. They all look sort of the same.

What about Green Extreme? $50 for two batteries + charger. Not the cheapest. Wasabi might be cheaper. But rather have one Jupio and another charger. Which might cost about the same, depending on the charger.

Nice charger for my Olympus camera, but don’t think I can get a plate to charge a Panasonic battery.

NetBird not very useful

Not on iOS, VPN On Demand, doesn’t work. Have to sign up for beta to even get it. Jetbird works on Android.

Well, that Moto phone, is complete crap, so no thanks. Custom ROM on it means no incoming calls. No custom ROM, and it’s complete crap.

Not wasting time looking for a third party NetBird client for iOS. The iOS app store is junk, just like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and so on.

Can’t even get a working browser in iOS. Would have to live in Europe.

Updating it to the newest version was a big mistake. The big update is complete crap.

I wonder, can I go back to whatever I had? Probably not.

This iPhone 15 might be worth over $200, that’s enough for a shitty ass refurbished Google Pixel phone on Backmarket. Sounds like a lot of work though. So not really worth it.

Setting up my own VPN on a server of some kind, would be less work. Assuming the WireGuard client works.

This is what everybody gets when companies only care about money. A bunch of useless junk.

And all iOS 18 versions no longer signed. Why would I ever buy any Apple product if they can’t even make working software?

Screen protector has a nice rainbow effect too. But phone is junk, so no point in doing anything about that.

Apparently ntfy app in iOS is useless as well. Text only. Have to use the web app, and configure it right. Well, too much work. I’ll enjoy the broken VPN.

And openSUSE Tumbleweed froze on laptop

That didn’t take long. Maybe the drive is bad. Cause I was restoring data. Tried opening Local-WP in Distrobox too. Maybe Distrobox also freezes it. But not on desktop. Drive is too small. Cause I hoard files.

And probably restic caused it to freeze. Or me, for restoring incorrectly.

Need to delete everything in folder again. First to –dry-run restic, to make sure the exclude options work. Might need a -v option too.

And then I’ll need to delete everything in home folder again.

Nothing CMF Watch Pro 2

No notifications with iOS anymore. I did update my phone.

Still the best watch I’ve had. Like the round big screen. Just use it for time then, since Apple is a dick. If I lived in Europe, the watch could work better.

Worked fine with Gadgetbridge and old firmware on Android.

Well, guess I can’t switch to Boost Mobile. Says something went wrong when trying to order it.

So the money people just block it if I accidentally have a typo in my first name? Well, maybe I can’t use that card at all now, then. Goodbye Philo then, and any other online bills.

And Boost Mobile just doesn’t work. Well, bummer. Sent a dollar using Apple Cash, from the same card.

Using Shortcuts, to open the app once a day, might fix the time issue on daylight savings.

MacBook Neo

Only 8 GB of RAM. That’s fine for Linux. But I don’t bother using my Mac mini M1 cause it only has 8 GB of RAM. Want to use some proprietary software? Well, it’s going to do a lot of swapping. Video editing, photo editing.

Probably could edit a photo with 8 GB of RAM in Linux though. Maybe do some small video editing too. I don’t know what I’m doing with photo or video editing, but the Mac mini doesn’t help me.

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            31Gi       7.4Gi       2.0Gi       546Mi        22Gi        23Gi
Swap:           33Gi        27Mi        33Gi

That’s my old desktop. Never needed more then 32 GB of RAM. Still doing just fine. $600, should get at least 32 GB of RAM.

Well, not from Apple.

USBIP doesn't work

Rebooting the server might fix it, but not worth it. VirtualHere might work, but not paying $50.

I’d plug the RTLSDR’s in my desktop, but no USB 2.0 ports free. No idea what the two ports under the 2.0 ports are.

Well, guess I have to just stream it from the server. My script has issues, and don’t want to fix it.

Oh those two ports are HDMI and DisplayPort, so I guess with the right CPU, I could use those. Thought it was too ancient to have those.

Wonder how long openSUSE Tumbleweed will work on laptop, without freezing. Apparently I can’t enable adaptive sync, maybe that means it won’t freeze.

Or install GUI and Pipewire, and send from it directly, but seems like a pain in the ass.

So with Icecast, I might have to add every station. Not a good solution. Might as well fix my script. Or maybe USBIP doesn’t work because of script running. Broken script disabled.

This might work.

Now looking for a frequencies list.

And maybe use JavaScript to format it, so I can spend less manual work doing it. Or look for different site, that gives me a text file.

Or use the FCC site.

Damn it, have to make a script now.

So what, I have to run it more then once? How do I change the frequency? The code doesn’t make it obvious.

Hmm, it can only be tuned to one thing. And it needs a way to change it.

Good idea, make a shell script to do it.

/usr/bin/rtl_fm -d 1 -p 55.153 -g35 -f 105.7M -M wbfm -r 64k - | play -t raw -r 32k -es -b 16 -c 2 -V1 -

Installed Pipewire on the computer with the RTL SDRs connected. Now to make a script, to play the MHz sent to it. No more fucking around with HTTP, all I need is a simple shell script.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
rfile = open("radio.txt", "r")
n = 0
for line in rfile:
    l = line.strip()
    fsp = l.find(' ')
    c = l[1:fsp]
    sp = l.find('|', fsp) + 1
    se = l.find(' ', sp)
    fm = l[sp:se]
    print('ch' + str(n) + ' =  ' + fm + ',FM,' + c)
    n = n + 1
rfile.close()

To convert FCC radio freqs to the Icecast thing’s config file. Not needed for me. No more USB IP crap either.

Replace 105.7 with $1, and then run ssh xxx@xxx ./radio.sh 105.7. Problem solved. Now to make a script for 105.7, since I got a bad memory. Or make a script, and list radio stations, then enter it.

There’s duplicates in my radio.txt or the output from script.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
cat ~/stations.txt
read -p "Enter radio station:" freq
ssh xxx@xxx ./radio.sh $freq

Nice and easy.

Don’t really need a script on the RTL SDR server.

Radio sounds worse now.

Just keep messing with the options, and it’ll sound funny.

To get 48Hz: /usr/bin/rtl_fm -d 1 -p 55.153 -g35 -f $1M -M wbfm -r 96k - | play -t raw -r 48k -es -b 16 -c 2 -V1 -

Don’t ask me, how that helps playing on headphones though.

Want an even better solution?

rtl_tcp -a IP -p 8181 -d 0

And put it in a service file. Use Gqrx.

rtl_tcp=192.168.2.41:8181,bias=0

I want Stereo FM, the rtl_fm_streamers don’t support the V4 RTL SDR Blog thing. And too lazy to figure out how to update librtlsdr.

SteelSeries - Rival 3

Forgot I had that mouse. The Zowie mouse I have, was having an issue with the scroll wheel. Then it went away. Bought the Zowie in 2017.

This one has barely been used, was using it with a laptop most likely, but was probably a pain using it on a lap desk. Works fine using it on a desk though.

Uses triple A batteries, I think. And no need to plug the mouse in or set on a charger. Got plenty of rechargeable batteries. Having to remember to put the mouse on charger, would be a real pain.

Zowie’s out of my price range now. Their wireless ones are cheaper refurbished on eBay, but no removable batteries.

This one is even cheaper, was just sitting on a table.

Works with the USB switcher too, just click a button on mouse after switching. Using the 2.4GHz adapter. And that USB switcher has four USB ports, so I left the other mouse plugged in for now.

Synergy 3

Bought the upgrade, had version 1 pro. Only $9. But then realized, should have made sure laptop is working first. Well, it should work with Steam Deck, there’s a Flatpak. Maybe only in desktop mode though, not sure. Wayland is experimental, didn’t know that either.

There’s probably a free thing to do it as well.

Well, get to test it anyways. Laptop seemed to be freezing because of AMDGPU. If it’s the driver, using openSUSE Tumbleweed could help. If I could disable the iGPU that could help too.

Might not be worth buying. Keep getting crap added to text files in Kate. Not sure if it’s Synergy or me though.

How about Input Leap? Free and might work better then Synergy. Only wasted $9. No clipboard sharing, not with Synergy either. If using Wayland. Is there a fork of it, that is more updated? Plenty of pull requests.

Maybe deskflow. Nice, no Flatpak needed either.