Behold!... My Wiki

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

ini file for my theme # ## My-MC-256 by is a 256-color green themed nord inspired skin for MC is based on # 256-color skins require mc version 4.8 or newer. # # [skin] description = My-MC-256 (user) 256colors = true [Lines] horiz = ─ vert = │ lefttop = ┌ righttop = ┐ leftbottom = └ rightbottom = ┘ topmiddle = ┬ bottommiddle = ┴ leftmiddle = ├ rightmiddle = ┤ cross = ┼ dhoriz = ═ dvert = ║ dlefttop = ╔ …

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Alpine A very light non-gnu Linux it uses Muscl and Busybox, it also has the KDE Desktop Environment available!, sadly Thunderbird seems broken and not installable, so that is a deal breaker for me (Kmail is not a sane alternative)

The Apps that I use

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

The Apps that I use Generally I use a mix of both GUI and CLI applications and tools, for instance I am writing this using Nano within Konsole however I will start with what most people consider the important thing - how I interact with the internet.

Arch Linux

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Arch Linux Scratch Notes for Install wipefs --all /dev/sda fdisk /dev/sda fdisk -l /dev/sda mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mkdir /mnt/home mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home pacstrap /mnt base linux-zen linux-firmware iwd grub intel-ucode freetype2 dosfstools exfatprogs f2fs-tools e2fsprogs jfsutils ntfs-3g tlp dhcpcd ufw iproute2 nano w3m man-db man-pages sox

BSD

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

BSD There are a few BSD operating systems, unlike Linux based operating systems each are independent operating systems and are not 'Distros' * FreeBSD * OpenDSD * NetBSD * DragonFlyBSD * HyperbolaBSD * MirBSDOS

configuration.nix

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

configuration.nix This is a working example of my nixos installation, which includes all the apps i use regularly, be aware this will build Thunderbird from source # Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on # your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page # and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’). { config, pkgs, ... }: { imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan. ./hardware-configuration.nix ]; # Use …

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

I am not available on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram If you really wanna contact me I am @jase@social.x220.co.uk in the Fediverse Whats the Fediverse? according to Wikipedia The Fediverse (a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”) is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.On different serv…

Coreboot Splash Images

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Coreboot Splash Images These can be created in GIMP, they MUST be exactly 1024 x 768 after saving your .xcf, choose to export the image as a .jpeg Then select advanced deselect 'progressive' and change the quality to reduced chroma 4:2:0 PLEASE NOTE bootsplash3.jpg IS UNTESTED

CoreBoot

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

CoreBoot x220 I have currently corebooted 5 x220 laptops (well 3 complete and 2 partial) I created 3 bootsplash images here More details will appear soon maybe with a “how to”. e14 Not currently supported ( will recheck in 2 years after my warrant expires

Debian

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Debian Debian (Stable) is a rock solid Linux distribution, it may run slightly older versions of software by default, although with Flatpak and Snap compatibility this does not have to be the case. Backup /home, Install Debian, Migrate /home I installed/migrated my system by doing something like

E14 Gen2 AMD Thinkpad

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

E14 Gen2 AMD Thinkpad Initial Thoughts Its a great laptop, and very powerful with an 8 core 8 thread Ryzen7 4700u processor and 16GB 3200mhz RAM As a result Windows (Meh!) works well, Linux compatibility however needs some work as it one of only a handful of Thinkpads that do not have great

lspci

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Root Complex 00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir IOMMU 00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge 00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge

FreeBSD

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

FreeBSD FreeBSD is an operating system which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is the 'other' (non-hugging) opensource operating system you may have heard about while being a Linux user watching popular YouTubers The “non hugging”

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:20:29 +0000

* The X220 Thinkpad Laptop * Hardware Info * E14 Gen2 AMD Thinkpad * My Linux Journey * My Blog * Linux * Arch Linux * Debian * KDE Neon * Pop!_OS * Alpine * Nix-OS * Kubuntu * Lenovo Certified * BSD * FreeBSD * KDE Polkit issue * IPFW, KDE Connect & Syncthing * KDE Desktop Environment * The Apps that I use * Midnight Commander * CoreBoot * Libreboot * Other Thinkpads * x40 * x200 * t21 * t60 * t61 * t400 * Other Hardware * My Netwo…

IPFW, KDE Connect & Syncthing

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

IPFW, KDE Connect & Syncthing OK this was a bit of a nightmare to sort, I use Syncthing as a user with content sychronised to a dedicated folder within my ~/ First install Kde Connect and Syncthing then edit /etc/rc.conf to include the following # Enable Firewall firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="workstation" # Allow syncthing and kdeconnect access firewall_myservices="1714-1764/tcp 1714-1764/udp 21027/udp 22000/tcp" firewall_allowservices="all" # Allow truted network clients through fir…

KDE Neon

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

KDE Neon I was looking forward to trying out KDE Neon and at first it looks and feels great, its a very impressive implementation of KDE-Plasma, although that was not really a surprise, it is an official 'non-distro' from the KDE Project I have started to theme all my desktops in a fairly similar way, for me KDE-Neon looked like this

KDE Desktop Environment

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

KDE Desktop Environment If you want decoration less full screen windows add [Windows] BorderlessMaximizedWindows=true to ~/.config/kwinrc

Removing polkit password requests after KDE-Plasma login

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Removing polkit password requests after KDE-Plasma login If after installing FreeBSD and KDE-Plasma you are greeted with a password request every time you log in to KDE Plasma this may help First add your user to the 'operator' group To do this you will need root priviliages (or doas/sudo)

Kubuntu

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Kubuntu Ubuntu with KDE Desktop Environment, I have never been a 'fan' of Ubuntu, and this feeling is something to which I cannot assign a reason for, I have tried Ubuntu several times in the past, I always found it less appealing to use in comparison to the likes of Arch Linux That said Kubuntu 20.10 is one of only a handful of distributions that would boot without too many issues to resolve on my new

Lenovo Certified

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Lenovo Certified Many the current T, X, P and even some L ranges are now 'certified' by Lenovo for use with Linux The range of presently 'Linux certified' Thinkpads can be located here: Earlier ('legacy') Thinkpads are listed here: Where a Thinkpad has official support You can visit the suppot.lenovo.com page for the Thinkpad and select 'Drivers & Software' then 'order recovery media' and scroll down to lo…

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

The file loader.conf contains descriptive information on all the modules the kernel needs to boot the system, some entries are added automatically during installation This list is what I use on Thinkpads that I have installed FreeBSD on (an x220 and a T60), non Thinkpaddery entries may work on other laptops but can be guaranteed

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

That little x220 icon I use was created and gifted to me by my good friend AndrzejL. It is available in many different sizes. [ 32x32 ] [ 64x64 ] [ 100x100 ] [ 200x200 ] [ 230x230 ] [ 320x320 ] [ 640x640 ]

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Here is the config for my 16M Colour Theme # The Four Seasons skins demonstrate how to use direct RGB true colors. # As a prerequisite, you will need: # 1) Midnight Commander version 4.8.19 or newer. # 2) Midnight Commander being compiled against S-Lang (rather than ncurses). # 3) S-Lang version 2.3.1 or newer. # 4) A 64-bit operating system. (Future S-Lang version 3 will support # true colors on 32-bit OSes too. Until then, you can install a patched # S-Lang and compile MC …

Midnight Commander

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Midnight Commander I like Midnight Commander (aka MC), its a freekin GREAT file manager, super easy to use and very powerful. I have had an attempt to theme MC, taking inspiration from Breeze and the Nordic Green colour themes in KDE It looks like this

Where to find my Blog

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:14:44 +0000

Where to find my Blog My Blog can be located at journalctl.uk The focus of which is on things what I find interesting or that I am working on (mostly computer found at carboot sales) I intend to widen the things I blog about so go have a look.

My Linux Journey

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

My Linux Journey * 2003-2004 distrohopped * 2004-2013 PCLinuxOS * 2013-2014 distrohopped * 2014-Aug 2020 Arch Linux stable AF, as I write this I think should I have moved? * Aug 2020 Debian stable then upgraded to next-stable, was a good experiece * Distrohop Warning:

My Network Hardware

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

My Network Hardware I sometimes get asked which router I use, or what I use for my home server. My home networking 'hardware stack' is as follows Mikrotik Router/FireWall I have replaced the FitPC4 with a Mikrotik RB750Gr3 that cost me £58. Despite being a lot less 'powerful' than my

Nix-OS

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Nix-OS Nix-OS is an odd beast, it is very, very different from any other Linux based OS I have used. This is both good and bad * The good is that everything is configured and installed by editing and a single installation file positioned at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

Pop!_OS

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

Pop!_OS So I pretty quickly figured put that while there was a lot to like about KDE Neon its handling of the few GTK apps I used was not great, I was also having issues with random shutdowns, I decided to have a look at Pop!_OS I had tried Pop!_OS previously but am not a fan of GNOME (Gah-Nome), so I took the plunge and

what do I mean when I say power-outs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

what do I mean when I say power-outs Imagine this, you have a well charged battery, everything is working as it should, and has been for the past 3 hours, then the screen goes blank and the lights switch off. The x220 just lost all power, and just stopped working , it did not shutdown

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

# Sshhh!! rc_startmsgs="NO" # Intel Graphics kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko" # power management powerd_enable="YES" powerd_flags="-n adaptive -a hiadaptive -b adaptive -m 800 -M 2500" performance_cx_lowest="C1" economy_cx_lowest="Cmax" # networking background_dhclient="YES" #dont hang boot while connecting cupsd_enable="YES" # Desktop Stuff dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" sddm_enable="YES" webcamd_enable="YES" # enable SMART smartd_enable="YES"

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:08:22 +0000

The X220 Thinkpad Laptop My Linux Journey Where to find my Blog Linux BSD KDE Desktop Environment CoreBoot Other Thinkpads

The X220 Thinkpad Laptop

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

The X220 Thinkpad Laptop Possibly the greatest of all 'Classic' Laptops, it holds a special place in my heart, which is why I have 2 1, and why two all three of my kids have one each (thanks pandemic for home schooling), and why I have 2 x220 motherboards destined to become either home media streaming machines or home servers (maybe even a proxmox host)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

############# Below Added under post install entries for reasons ############# # kill the beep - important hw.syscons.bell=0 kern.vt.enable_bell=0 # improved desktop responsiveness # kern.schd.preempt_thresh=224 <<

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

I managed to get my T60 booted, although I thought it was dead. On first boot the screen is red, so I will probably have to change the inverter at some point. As the T60 is a 32bit machine, I installed Debian Stable 32bit

Where to find my Blog

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:19:44 +0000

x220 Thinkpad

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:34:38 +0000

x220 Thinkpad ThinkPad x220 Keyboards by FRU Number # UK (en_GB) " 45N2170 45N2100 45N2240" ThinkPad x220 batteries by FRU Number List of FRU's from the x220 Hardware Maintenance Manual # 4 cell 2.0Ah " `42T4899` `42T4901`" # 6Cell 2.8Ah