Systemd brings a killer Windows feature to Linux! Syncing your funny picture folder with Rclone, fetching github info from the command line, and a M.2 HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
04:45 Defending Windows 11
05:58 Linux BSOD
10:53 Github Fetch
13:27 Funny picture sync folder
18:37 Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT
Linux BSOD
- Who remembers the Blue Screen Of Death?
- Systemd 255 comes with a little something called systemd-bsod.
- It’s a diagnostic tool to display a full-screen error message with a QR code.
- And it better be BLUE!
- It’s designed to troubleshoot boot failures and could be useful?
- So Systemd 255 Blue Screen of Death is still very experimental.
- Any error message that reaches the LOG_EMERG level will be displayed full-screen so you can take a picture of it or write it down.
- Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and Debian all use Systemd, as well as many downstream distros.
- The first thing I thought when the Internet exploded about a new BSOD feature on Linux is, well, Linux error codes are far easier to fix than a random VXD error code on Windows! LOL
- And Linux can be reinstalled in just 5-10 mins these day . . .
Github fetch
https://github.com/ghfetch/ghfetch
- I found a cool and useful app a few days ago when looking for more alternatives to Neofetch.
- We talked about the wonderful fastfetch neofetch-like tool last week.
- But for LWDW this week, I found an interesting spin on the neofetch paradigm.
- It is called ghfetch, or Github fetch!
- In CLI it lets you display a GitHub user, repo, or organization in beautiful terminal glory!
- The commands are simple: ghfetch <user or organization> or ghfetch <user>/<repo>
- And walla, ghfetch displays a low poly profile pic, public repos, stars, followers, description etc of whatever user, organization or repo you choose.
- Here is a screenshot of my ghfetch of Wimpy’s World and Wimpy’s ia-get, or Internet Archive Get app we talked about last week:
Rclone
https://github.com/rclone/rclone
- This is rsync for cloud storage made wicked-easy.
- Ran across this last week while looking for something to quickly attach R2 to a system.
- It worked great for that project but it does so much more.
- Amazon S3, Google Photos, Dropbox, Opendrive, Nextcloud, Linode…the list goes on and on.
- So what does it do?
- It lets you create a local folder on your system that stays in sync with whatever cloud thingamabob you connect it with.
- It even has an option for FUSE mount.
- But that’s not the killer feature nay.
- It’s the choose your own text adventure setup of extreme easiness.
- Here is an example for Google photos.
- Wow, there are so many cloud services to sync to, including the Internet Archive, Mega, Yandex Disk, DigitalOcean Spaces and so much more!
Slice of Pi
Double standards
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/double-standards/
- Let’s talk about the PIP.
- Peripheral Component Interconnect Express.
- It’s what you get on the Pi 5 instead of M.2.
- Why didn’t we get M.2 on the Pi 5?
- Price, power, and footprint.
- Adding a M.2 would have cost a wee bit more while requiring a 3.3V, 3A power supply.
- Then they would have had to find a place to put it on the board.
- They have finished all the needed firmware bits in order to make their funky little connector work.
- The M.2 M Key HAT+ should be ready early 2024.
- No wonder why the Raspberry Pi company took a bit to release the hats, they were working on a new standard!
- When the Raspberry Pi 5 was released in October, we had talked about in the future they would release a Gigabit Ethernet with PoE+ support HAT coming soon.
- And I am sure we will hear about that HAT soon.
- And that an NVMe HAT would be on the way, and now it is coming early next year.
