Notices by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social), page 2

I built my first Minisforum desktop using a barebones MS-A1, to send to Gabe from Saveitforparts as a video editing workstation.

It didn't go according to plan, but it's a neat way to build a custom PC. Wish it either fit in 1U or housed a 15mm U.2 drive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdZ9Kx69HjI

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

A few times a year, I pick up an old movie or book and have a watch/read through again.

1-2 decades later, the same material can have a lot different impact.

I'm glad I have the physical media, too. I can be sure Disney or Amazon or whoever didn't go changing the story lol

You'll own NOTHING and be HAPPY! That's what I've been hearing a lot, lately. Quick video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAsgjKBkKMA

Sign the Stop Killing Games initiative here, if you're in the EU or UK: https://www.stopkillinggames.com

@mattl yes, still getting up to speed on it though

Well that was easy. Wanted to get data from my Acurite 5-in-1 weather station into my Pi 5.

1. Plug in @Nooelec NESDR + antenna
2. Install: sudo apt install -y rtl-433
3. Run: rtl_433

And bingo! Decoding all the weather data.

Made a quick L2J video on Stop Killing Games — I doubt the initiative will get enough votes, but more visibility for consumer rights regarding game software is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhw-1a2b9kY

Computer History Museum was pretty awesome. Thanks for all the recommendations!

Apple doesn't realize how many hours I spend every iOS release trying to explain to family members with iOS devices how to use the same app (Photos) which is completely redesigned every year.

RIP. Something deceivingly simple like overlapping windows on a display was not so simple back when Bill Atkinson programmed it on the Macintosh.

Wish we had that feature on the iPad!
https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/114643717241762697

Sipeed's NanoCluster holds up to 7 Compute Modules in 6cm—how are the power limits? Does it throttle? Can you run distributed LLMs?

All those questions—and many more—answered in today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtpaiODNs0

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

Oh we're gonna do this again YouTube?

Self-hosting your own media content on a Raspberry Pi is not "dangerous or harmful".

I'm appealing of course; they're saying installing LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi circumvents copyright?!

Tomorrow... AI speech to text on an old Power Mac G4

Et tu, YouTube?

The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:

Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.

Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.

The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

It's hard to have a good time on a Mac.

Which is why I spent far too many hours tinkering with GPS, Chrony, and NTP to see if I could improve the timing situation...

See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmQGMwF_M8

I did not die installing a GPS antenna at the studio with my Dad... and I got to learn some of the tricks of the trade with coax and antennas for permanent outdoor installs from him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U73uTKDs

Pet peeve: People complaining about the way I maintain my open source projects under MIT license (particularly my decision to use stale bot, since I don't like seeing literal thousands of open issues across my repos).

Just fork it! No skin off my back. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/just-say-no

@darix fine by me!

I often post a PR to a project with zero expectations whatsoever.

The only reason I post it is so (a) I can incorporate that into my own documentation or fork, and (b) so others who use the project can benefit.

If anyone on the project ever decides to merge my code, that's just icing on the cake.