Cuckoo.Plus gives Mastodon a G+ facelift, MPV adds support for PipeWire, hacking a Sony camera with Linux, and ROCKing Raspberry Pi alternative.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:54 Linux thermal nope PC
09:12 Pulse browser update
10:18 Google+ Theme for Mastodon
17:58 MPV gets the Pipes
23:47 Hacking a Sony camera with Linux
35:55 ROCK 5 Board
Mast+
https://chromeunboxed.com/mastodon-google-plus-cuckoo-social/
https://github.com/NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus
- Oh cool, this gives me geek chills! I love Cuckoo+, and it does look like Google+ :-D
- I am looking forward to updates to this project, and fixing things like when clicking on your profile the default Mastodon page coming up.
- I really like that everyone you follow from all the different federated servers is easily displayed in Home.
- And the # of notifications pop up for new messages on the top of the page, just like Google+.
- Cuckoo+ is NOW my default Mastodon interface!
- Google+ was one of the few social networks that I didn’t mind its default light mode.
- G+ was the original social network that I used to talk to Venn, Pedro and Jordan on back in the day.
- @[email protected].
- Don’t you hate running across a cool project only to find out it’s dead?
- Well, that’s what Cuckoo.social is.
- A project started in 2019, the same year G+ was noped out of existence.
- The developer made a functioning proof of concept and called it a day.
- In fact, he left Mastodon entirely.
- That makes this extra cruel since it’s not lips on a pig stick, nay.
- You can actually interact with your Masta instance, kinda.
- I’m bringing this up in hopes of someone picking up this project and continuing development.
- Or bringing back a 1:1 clone of G+.
- Twitter is not going to implode.
MPV Pipes
https://linuxiac.com/mpv-0-35-video-player-brings-pipewire-audio-backend-support/
- There is a new version of one of my favorite media players on Linux, mpv.
- Mpv 0.35 is out with PipeWire backend support and optimization improvements.
- Mpv is an open source and cross platform video player which is a fork of MPlayer2 and created in 2012.
- One of my favorite features of mpv is its advanced command line features, like the original Mplayer, and an easy to use minimal GUI.
- Mpv now has PipeWire audio backend support available, and it should behave similarly to -ao jack.
- And it now has DMA buffering capability, which will result in your battery on your laptop lasting longer because the CPU has less of a workload.
- Also, this optimizes mpv even better for running faster on older hardware, which is one of its best attributes.
- This release also adds the Meson build system as an alternative to WAF, a Python-based framework.
Sony a5000 Camera Hack
https://linuxgamecast.com/2022/11/sony-a5000-clean-hdmi-hack-power-off-bypass/
- Three years ago I was on the lookout for something to replace this guy.
- The camcorder I’ve used since the beginning to record LinuxGameCast things.
- I wanted to see how low you could go and still have something with clean HDMI out and interchangeable lenses.
- Then the thing happened and camera prices went crazy.
- Fastfoward three years and the used market is inching back to normalcy so I revisited the project.
- The Sony a6000 is the obvious budget option but they are still pricey for an 8 year old camera.
- The a5100 had everything I was looking for and is going for $300.
- But what got my attention (and curiosity) was the a5000 and the fact it’s selling for around $150/200.
- Not just a “body only” but a complete used kit with lens.
- Thing is, Sony is Sony and disabled the option to disable the overlay on the HDMI out.
- You have to buy the a5100, or do you?
- In this guide I show you how to hack the a5100 firmware using telnet over wifi.
- And how to keep the camera running past the 30 minute timeout.
- Everything you need to get an excellent camera for live streaming on a budget.
- On Linux.
Slice of Pi
Radxa Pi
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rock5-sbc-rk3588
- There is a new Rockchip RK3588 chipset Single Board Computer out, called the ROCK 5.
- It claims to be the first SBC to support 8k60 video output.
- Specs:
- There’s a quad-core 2.4 GHz Cortex A76 unit providing processing grunt, and four Cortex 1.8 GHz A55 cores for efficiency and background tasks.
- It has 8 Arm cores vs the Raspberry Pi’s 4.
- Arm Mali G610MC4 GPU.
- 4GB, 8GB or 16GB 64bit LPDDR4 RAM
- Dual HDMI ports supporting displays up to 8Kp60 resolution and 4Kp60.
- Micro-HDMI input port supporting up to 4Kp60 resolution.
- USB-C, 2x USB2
- There’s a quad-core 2.4 GHz Cortex A76 unit providing processing grunt, and four Cortex 1.8 GHz A55 cores for efficiency and background tasks.
- Yet another board more powerful than the Raspberry Pi and is available for pre-order, and a dispatch within 14 days on OKdo.
- The 8GB is available on OKdo for $159.00, and a 4GB, 8GB and 16GB are available from AmeriDroid at $144.95 for 4GB, $169.95 for 8GB and $219.95 for 16GB.
