mintCast Episode 304

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to mintCast Episode 304. This is Leo and Bo and Tony Hughes and Tony Watts and Joe and Moss and special guest Josh Lowe AKA All_About_Code. We’re recording live on Sunday March 10th 2019. First up, we’ll hear Josh talk about his new PC, my SSD and Docker stuff, Joe with X2GO and Raspberry Pi, Tony Watts with his OnePlus 3T, Bo with some SCCC info, Tony Hughes with LineageOS and a new Dell, Moss still fighting issues, but soon with more RAM! Then, lots of news including Kernel 5.0, The amazing interview with Josh Lowe, and some feedback from our listeners.

Bi-Weekly Wanderings:

Josh Lowe

Setup a custom PC running Mint 19 after recommendation from Tony H. Moved from Ubuntu and so far much happier with Mint.

Played around with “Numpad superpowers” (A visual editor for creating macros) with the Pimoroni Keybow.

https://numpadsuperpowers.com/

Leo

Got a 256GB m.2 SATA disk for my Thinkpad. For VM Storage, dual boots, etc.

[Bo, Co-topic] Hank’s suggestion to write disks with cat instead of dd.

Having a play with Docker, and learning the ropes.

Joe

Ordered an AMD FX 8350 for the server.

Installed and working

Temperatures are much more stable

Got new screens for the kids tablets

Have not installed yet

Took apart the other tablet to try and fix the charging problem

Not seeing any damage. Further testing required to find out if it is the actual port or the battery

Might be better to replace the board with Tala’s to get around the bezel issue on her device then fix the port when i can. Will also be able to quickly tell if it is the battery or port.

Took apart the dell venue 8 pro to try and get the battery to read power correctly

Didn’t work, but did get it put back together and working again

Install X2GO server on the pi

sudo apt-get install dirmngr

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keys.gnupg.net E1F958385BFE2B6E

sudo editor /etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list

# X2Go Repository (release builds)

deb http://packages.x2go.org/raspbian stretch main

# X2Go Repository (sources of release builds)

deb-src http://packages.x2go.org/raspbian stretch main

sudo apt update

sudo apt-cache search x2go

sudo apt install x2goserver

sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment

sudo apt install x2goclient

It works. Love that i have it again and may turn it into an x2go gateway

Tony Watts

Updated firmware on guitar pedal

Upgraded OnePlus 3T to Lineage 16, Android Pie

In place upgrade not possible.

Had to flash latest oxygen OS to get up to date firmware, THEN flash latest Lineage

Bo

SCCC

New Streaming setup question for the crew/audience

Tony Hughes

Installing Lineage OS 16 onto my OnePlus 1, ready to hand over to my wife as her upgrade from a Nexus 4 running Android 5.1

Rooting and Flashing Lineage OS 15.1 to the Nexus 4. After quite a bit of fiddling due in part to my impatience and partially due to some difference in the terminal commands in the youtube video and what were needed in my system...