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• Post #3914322

  Once again I had #outage at Bitwoods #Mastodon server. And the same reason: Samsung EVO Plus 32 GB #SDcard switched to "write protected mode" after 200 days or 500 GB writes. It was the 3rd failing card (I still have 2 spares remaining) and the failing time is now pretty predictable. Maybe switching to bigger card would give longer life-time? Luckily it was easy to recover just by dd'ing the old read-only card into a fresh new one and just reboot. No data loss AFAIK....

• Post #3914321

  "Kohdusta hautaan Ui uuttera lautta" #RIP #EsaPulliainen

• Post #3914320

  "Electric" by #RichardThompson Great fat sound right from start w/"Stony Ground". Electric indeed. He starts with a killer track sweeping the floor with #Hendrix, #Townshend etc. Superb rocking, and bit folksy with some FC feel. Great stuff. 2nd track is more acoustic based and traditional. Then w/"Sally B" again mixes folk and fierce electric playing. Later tracks have also bluesy stuff. Overall good balance between show-off playing and s...

• Post #3914319

  I forgot to buy #stocks last month... But today I bought some #GE #Healthcare. I find stocks no longer exciting and just mildly interesting at best. Just a necessary evil, but I guess it's still a better hobby than just boozing the money. #StockMarket #Investing #Capitalism

• Post #3914318

  Weekend trip to #Oulu was a great success! Primary reason: Finnish 1:10 2WD #offroad #buggy nationals series (Kaakkuri #RC tracks). I was hesitating to go, but I'm glad I did because I got 3rd in B-main and got my best #RCcar #racing result since 80s. Every start was tough w/another racer tailing me & trying overtake, it was a tough battle but I managed to keep my concentration. Sunday was post-race chill-out and #tourism. There's a cool #Reidar Särestöniemi #art exhib...

• Post #3516186

  Anto Leikola RIP. Portti-lehdessä julkaisi kiinnostavia artikkeleita, ja piti hyviä luentoja. Tieteen historia -kurssi jäänyt mieleen, kun "Lande" Lindfors oli myös suorittamassa ja tuli napakkaa kommenttia puolin ja toisin. https://www.hs.fi/popkulttuuri/art-2000012111328.html

• Post #2603703

  "A Saucerful Of Secrets" by #PinkFloyd Their 2nd album and final one to get authentic mono mix. Like w/Piper, the mono vinyl mix sounds just superb. This is an underdog Floyd album as w/Barrett leaving the band they were searching for new direction, so it's a bit unfocused. No #Waters visions (though there's WW2 refs) or #Gilmour solos unleashed yet, instead obscure space/sci-fi rock and #RickWright lullabies. The sleeve is 1st ever #Hipgnosis album cover....

• Post #2603702

  "Morgöth Tales" by #Voivod Old songs re-invented, good shit. #Music #CD #RecordCollecting #Metal

• Post #2603701

  "Live From The Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975" by #PinkFloyd Got this on tape over 30 years ago, now there's official CD restored by #SteveWilson. It's a legendary set indeed. You get early Animals, core WYWH and full DSOTM and finally Echoes. I always thought my tape was a bit slow, but it's the same here as well. The band just plays sloppily, like the rubber-band #Waters bass on the starter track. But it's still cool, true ston...

• Post #2250010

  Linus just tagged #Linux v7.0. Testing it on my #ARMv4T board with 32 MB RAM, and it seems to boot OK: ~ # uname -a Linux palmte 7.0.0-palmte-00002-g7e5461fee935 #2 2026-04-13 armv4tl GNU/Linux ~ # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 25392 5492 14840 4808 5060 14052 Swap: 0 0 0 #FreeSoftware #ARM #Kernel #LowEnd #PermaComputing

• Post #2250007

  Attempting to fix USB gadget DMA regression on OMAP1 15xx, after 21 years or so: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-omap/ad06qHLclWHeSGnV@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi/T/#u #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #ARM #PermaComputing

• Post #2250005

  Last year I tried to fix Nokia 770 touchscreen #regression on the mainline kernel, but failed, this year I got inspired to try a new idea for the fix: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260419161848.825831-1-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi/T/#u #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #DonQuixote

• Post #2250003

  I'm trying to revive my #PinkFloyd fandom by re-buying and listening to all their albums on #vinyl again in chronological order (I sold my PF vinyls sometime 1990s as a poor student, and replaced them with crappy CDs). "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" 2017 LP #mono mix sounds just perfect - I'm happy with just a re-release, and it even took a while to find one. Old favourites remain: "Astronomy Domine" and "Interstellar Overdrive&amp...

• Post #2250001

  "Washing Machine" by #SonicYouth. Possibly the best album I've heard from them. Some kick-ass Horse-Crimso-style guitar jamming and soloing in the first track. The rest of the album is more regular SY "punk" but still enjoyable. Some great feedback and sustained stuff here and there. Pure art. #Music #CD #RecordCollecting #Noise #Rock

• Post #2250000

  Maybe it's just me but I think #RaspberryPi OS #trixie with #Wayland is great improvement for older models like Pi 3. Using e.g. Mastodon w/Firefox just works. A cool #hack for the official 7" touchscreen: fix xterm font to 12 pt and set Wayland scaling to 0.993. Then entering full screen mode, you get just exactly 80x25 terminal. Also got the 1-button mouse usable with Wayland. Instead of GUI hacks, I just created udev/hwdb rule to emit right clicks with kbd. #Computing #Low...

• Post #2143368

  "Dry Southern Blues - 1925-1929 Recordings" by #BlindLemonJefferson. I've often ranted that pre-WW2 blues is the best music there is, and compilations like this just prove my point. This one has 50 tracks with just a man and guitar, and 37 of tracks have #blues in the title.. And if that's not already heavy enough you get titles like "All I Want Is That Pure Religion". #Music #CD #RecordCollecting #Blues #Country #Folk #Gospel #OldSchool