interesting, this serial port seems to be for a DSP and not the main SoC. i was expecting a U-Boot prompt and linux boot log, but i got something very different
i wonder if i will ever figure out how to fix my gentoo so that trying to open a link in thunderbird or hexchat will open it in the running instance of firefox instead of trying to start a new one for some reason
ok, i have finally fixed my configs so i can build a new kernel again, and successfully have done so, and most of the rest of the system is rebuilt too. still having issues with compiler-rt and some sporadic other packages
i'm probably just going to pare my package list down removing anything that's breaking, get my system in a more consistent and stable state, and then attempt to re-add packages as needed
i spent time yesterday tweaking my tiny Athlon 5350 PC, doing some coarse-tuned undervolting and stress testing to try and reduce its power consumption as much as possible. stock, it peaks at about 42w during boot; with my changes closer to 32, and there's definitely room for improvement. that's including the display, which is a small portable one powered off the machine's usb port
that system is running ArcaOS right now and i don't have display blanking or sleep working but i'm going to try to figure out both of those (even if it means writing code and/or doing some low level debugging)
been fixing up my little local solar harvesting rig since the place i'm moving next month has expensive electricity and i figure since i already have this, i might as well use it and save myself a few bucks
i haven't been using it much here since the grid power is solar anyway
once i get things tweaked a bit i'm pretty sure i can manage running almost all of my devices off of this, despite the limited wattage
i was having issues i didn't understand how to address and that were making it hard for me to work (i, like you, use computers for a living) and was extremely stressed about it, both because it was hard to read things due to the double vision and blurriness, and because it was painful. old eye doctor didn't help at all.
so i went to my childhood small-town family eye doctor, he took a look, and just started casually explaining to me that there was nothing to be worried about, he got me some "computer glasses", got my insurance to pay for them, and told me a specific type of eye drops to use and when/how to use them, and explained why the whole thing was happening (basically: eye infection a few years ago never properly recovered, surface layer of my eye kept getting re-damaged during the night as my eye dried out, in somewhat of a "feedback loop"; surface layer heals fine if you give it a little bit of help, and then it will also lubricate itself properly)
apparently a lot of issues he sees are like this, where people are worried and facing debilitating issues but there's a simple way to address it
getting my own ASN and IPv6 range has turned out to be a rather fun hobby so far, and a surprisingly less expensive one than i thought it would be
i did not honestly expect, before i started poking at this, that if you go about it right you can do it for an ongoing cost of less than $50 USD a month
i'm paying a little more than that, but i'm also doing so in a way that allows me to collapse all my existing servers into this network and reduce the ongoing costs from those, so it balances back out to that again anyway
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