Gone extremely quiet..

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On 1/25/2024 1:06 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Gone extremely quiet..
>

yes.

On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Gone extremely quiet..

Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
the world.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, immibis wrote:

> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Gone extremely quiet..
>
> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in the
> world.
>

I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.

But I'll shoot in a new question!

I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
underpowered for kodi. The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.

Does anyone know of something similar to the 3a+ but in modern form with a
bit more power and cpu?

Sadly the raspberry 4 and 5 seem to double down on the big form factor and
it is too big to fit behind my tv. =(

Best regards,
Daniel

On 25/01/2024 13:54, D wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, immibis wrote:
>
>> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>
>> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
>> the world.
>>
>
> I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.
>
> But I'll shoot in a new question!
>
> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
> underpowered for kodi. The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
> Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>
> Does anyone know of something similar to the 3a+ but in modern form with
> a bit more power and cpu?
>
> Sadly the raspberry 4 and 5 seem to double down on the big form factor
> and it is too big to fit behind my tv. =(
>
Pi Zero 2w perhaps.

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On 25.01.2024 15:54, D wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, immibis wrote:
>
>> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>
>> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
>> the world.
>>
>
> I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.
>
> But I'll shoot in a new question!
>
> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
> underpowered for kodi. The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
> Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>
> Does anyone know of something similar to the 3a+ but in modern form with
> a bit more power and cpu?
>
> Sadly the raspberry 4 and 5 seem to double down on the big form factor
> and it is too big to fit behind my tv. =(
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>

Hi Daniel,

I use rpi 3b with libreelec and it does the job.

Best regards,
Luc

Follow-ups trimmed to: comp.os.linux.misc

In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Gone extremely quiet..

I think the google groups filter is working, so google group
people goes to the bit bitbucket in the sky :)

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- Paraphrasing Star Wars

Am 25.01.2024 schrieb D <nospam@example.net>:

> But I'll shoot in a new question!

Please do that in a new thread.

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On 2024-01-25, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Gone extremely quiet..
>

no Spam, good :) we are around, reading :)

Happy Hacking
ReK2

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On 2024-01-25 10:00, John McCue wrote:
> Follow-ups trimmed to: comp.os.linux.misc
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Gone extremely quiet..
>
> I think the google groups filter is working, so google group
> people goes to the bit bitbucket in the sky :)

Google Groups previously announced that effective February 22, 2024 they
are discontinuing Usenet support. Google Groups users won't be able to
post to newsgroups and they won't see any new content from Usenet.

So, yes, the Google Groups posters are disappearing.

I suspect that without the incessant spam originating from Google
Groups, activity might actually pick up in newsgroups again.

On 25.01.24 14:33, immibis wrote:
> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Gone extremely quiet..
>
> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
> the world.

Nonsense.

--
"Manus manum lavat."

On 25/01/2024 16:29, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
> On 25.01.24 14:33, immibis wrote:
>> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>
>> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
>> the world.
>
> Nonsense.
>
What happened is that all those AOL people moved to twatter and faecesbook

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But Marxism is the crack cocaine.

On 1/25/2024 4:16 PM, rek2 hispagatos wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
> On 2024-01-25, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>
>
> no Spam, good :) we are around, reading :)
>
> Happy Hacking
> ReK2
>

or actually working on our systems... I keep tinkering with mine. Trying
to get my Raspberry to run both a pihole and a bbs (and failing at it)

D wrote:

> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
> underpowered for kodi.

I have a Pi 3Bv1.2 and found it was pretty good as a TV front-end

> The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
> Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.

Dunno about the space, must be pretty tight behind your TV if a couple
of usb/eth ports stop it fitting?

Andy Burns wrote:

>
>> The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
>> Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>
>Dunno about the space, must be pretty tight behind your TV if a couple
>of usb/eth ports stop it fitting?

Actually the Pi4 and 5 are exactly the same size as the 3, so what is
the actual problem here? I have a 4 running LibreElec and I think it is
very fast and it plays 4k HDR videos without the slightest hitch.

-jw-

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On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, nev young wrote:

> On 25/01/2024 13:54, D wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, immibis wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>>
>>> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in the
>>> world.
>>>
>>
>> I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.
>>
>> But I'll shoot in a new question!
>>
>> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
>> underpowered for kodi. The reason I choose that model is that it fits. Due
>> to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>>
>> Does anyone know of something similar to the 3a+ but in modern form with a
>> bit more power and cpu?
>>
>> Sadly the raspberry 4 and 5 seem to double down on the big form factor and
>> it is too big to fit behind my tv. =(
>>
> Pi Zero 2w perhaps.

Not powerful enough I'm afraid, but thank you for the tip.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, kyonshi wrote:

> On 1/25/2024 4:16 PM, rek2 hispagatos wrote:
>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
>> On 2024-01-25, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>>
>>
>> no Spam, good :) we are around, reading :)
>>
>> Happy Hacking
>> ReK2
>>
>
> or actually working on our systems... I keep tinkering with mine. Trying to
> get my Raspberry to run both a pihole and a bbs (and failing at it)
>

Why isn't it working? On my side generation 3 is not strong enough, and
all B models are too big for my use case, sadly. Otherwise I really like
the platform.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Andy Burns wrote:

> D wrote:
>
>> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
>> underpowered for kodi.
>
> I have a Pi 3Bv1.2 and found it was pretty good as a TV front-end
>
>> The reason I choose that model is that it fits. Due to the big port module
>> on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>
> Dunno about the space, must be pretty tight behind your TV if a couple of
> usb/eth ports stop it fitting?

Correct. I have a very flat Oled tv and power sockets in the middle of the
wall, so I have about 1 cm or so between the tv and the wall. Just enough
for an 3a+.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Joerg Walther wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>>
>>> The reason I choose that model is that it fits.
>>> Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't fit.
>>
>> Dunno about the space, must be pretty tight behind your TV if a couple
>> of usb/eth ports stop it fitting?
>
> Actually the Pi4 and 5 are exactly the same size as the 3, so what is
> the actual problem here? I have a 4 running LibreElec and I think it is
> very fast and it plays 4k HDR videos without the slightest hitch.

The problem is that due to the portmodule, the 4 and 5 are too high so
they won't fit in the 1 cm space I have. If I could somehow easily remove
the ports, I think it would fit, but based on what I've seen it is very
difficult and requires special tools. So I'd rather by a raspberry pi 4a+
or something similar to avoid the trouble.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:47:41 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote:

> I suspect that without the incessant spam originating from Google
> Groups, activity might actually pick up in newsgroups again.

You and all the rest of us!

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:54:29 +0100, D wrote:

> I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.

In the old USENET, that would never have happened ...

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:54:29 +0100, D wrote:
>
> I use a raspberry 3a+ for my tv, and it is great although a bit
> underpowered for kodi. The reason I choose that model is that it
> fits. Due to the big port module on a 3b those bigger boards don't
> fit.
>
> Does anyone know of something similar to the 3a+ but in modern form
> with a bit more power and cpu?
>
> Sadly the raspberry 4 and 5 seem to double down on the big form factor
> and it is too big to fit behind my tv. =(

Suppose the Kodi GUI is a little obese? Then try a different
player. Install mpv for example. It doesn't even has a GUI. But front
ends exists if it does the job.
--
Andreas

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:47:41 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-25 10:00, John McCue wrote:
>> Follow-ups trimmed to: comp.os.linux.misc
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> Gone extremely quiet..

Put everybody in the killfile?

>> I think the google groups filter is working, so google group
>> people goes to the bit bitbucket in the sky :)
>
> Google Groups previously announced that effective February 22, 2024 they
> are discontinuing Usenet support. Google Groups users won't be able to
> post to newsgroups and they won't see any new content from Usenet.

Would had been nice if Google would still synchronize with new postings
after February 22, even if not allowing to post new articles.
--
Andreas

On 1/25/24 23:07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:54:29 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> I think the Wayland dialogue exhausted itself.
>
> In the old USENET, that would never have happened ...

Did you hear there was drama about window icons?

A GNOME developer wants applications to register their icon in their
..desktop file. An application which uses several different window icons
must register several different .desktop files in the system
applications list.

Everyone else says: no, that's a really stupid idea.

On 1/25/24 11:31 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 25/01/2024 16:29, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
>> On 25.01.24 14:33, immibis wrote:
>>> On 1/25/24 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> Gone extremely quiet..
>>>
>>> Usenet died a couple of decades ago. Be the change you want to see in
>>> the world.
>>
>> Nonsense.
>>
> What happened is that all those AOL people moved to twatter and faecesbook

And ALL FOR THE BETTER !!! :-)

Though we still have our share of trolls/idiots.

Ah, cleaning out my office, found a Kodak #2a Autographic Junior
(130 film) a #1 Junior (120 film) and a couple of other folders.
Bellows look OK, but could spray black plastic 'rubber' inside
if there are any pinholes. Also a Kodak brown bakelite box
Brownie (620).

Found a vid on YT ... some guy took a #2a and made trick spools
and a mask augment so it'd work with 120 as a panoramic cam.
The 130 was a bit wider, ergo the need. He even took some pix
with it, not TOO bad considering the crude lens/shutter. 130
was "postcard size" around WW-1. Can't find the ISO ... maybe
100 ? Shutter speeds are 1/25 and 1/50

The Autographic is interesting - a small long hatch in the back
JUST big enough for a writ one-line note/date - which would get
burned into the edge of the neg.

Oh, one cam says "N.C. Cartridge 120" ... but extensive searching
does not explain what that IS. The "Cartridge" might just mean "roll",
not the pre-formed plastic cartridges more popular in the 60s/70s
InstaMatics).

All the folder cams were kinda 1915-1925 vintage plus or minus.
Must have found them in junk shops and then forgotten.