#Linux Cloning

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[relto]

the crash happy computer i got yesterday always shows the bluescreen for only half a second so to figure out what tf is going on i decided to connect an external webcam to a different computer, pointed it at the screen, and started recording. and YES it worked!! now i have the error code at least.

[crunkybrewstr]

So I searched to see if Tarisland was up on the ProtonDB.com site. I was just curious to see if anyone got it working at all for Linux. This was the first entry on the site.....

[kuromi-hoemie]

i made a network cable earlier for the first time :3 or, successfully lol i was STRUGGLING yesterday 😭 v satisfying to get it set up though ૮ ᴖﻌᴖა

she wanted bespoke cables that r cut to length for her little project ૮˶• ﻌ •˶ა

[horseradish-girly]

I need to explain how insane my linux setup used to be

The first partition was boot, it had systemd-boot and a custom kernel build from vanilla kernel.org source. The second partition was an LVM physical volume with three logical volumes: an @arch-official rootfs, a @debian-official rootfs, and the rest of the space was shared for a directory I invented called /common which the distros shared. Kernel configurations, source, and all kernel modules were stored there. I wrote a hook for init ramfs to mount /common early so that the symlink to /common for kernel modules would work

For the home directory, subdirectories with normal files were in /common/homert/<dirname>, and gnu stash linked them to my home directory. All of my config files were stored in a git repo, the upstream being in /common and clones being in the home directories in each of the distros, each distro having its own branch committing and pushing to upstream whenever .zshrc was run. (.zshrc was also tracked by the repo & I had trouble because i didn't think to set up an extra clone with a dev branch) In retrospect I should've just used git watch

Anyways I got a ton of strange issues I never figured out like my config files being sent back to February 2nd randomly and debian not being able to connect to the network. That's what happens when your OS is a tangled web of shell scripts XD

In the end I decided it was too cursed switched to @nixos-official and left that hot imperative mess behind B)

[daemonhxckergrrl]

Favorite weird obscure operating system that nobody’s heard of

on pure "woag i didn't know that", i'd say minix purely bc it runs inside basically any intel cpu since 2008. inside your cpu on a level so low not even your uefi/bios can tell it exists, is an entire version of an educational unix clone (the very one that inspired torvalds to make linux) and it runs a full networking stack, filesystem, web server and more. why ? intel management engine. it manages cpu stuff apparently.

feeling scared ?

[quidam-vir]

The Latin Collaborative & Creative Internet

Welcome to my little reference post! I love all the crowd sourced places and places of creative expression on the Internet. I especially love when small communities, like Latin speakers, come together and do cool things. I want to shout-out some of these Latin-specific projects and places just to spread possibilities for the wide-reaching īnsolitī hominēs around the globe. Grow community resources, express yourself or have something fun to do if you're bored.

1. Software Translations (Launchpad)

Over at launchpad they crowdsource translations for a bunch of open source software. Think of your favorite open source software and chances are it'll be on there and you could help make a Latin version. Applications range from Blender to Chromium to Ubuntu to a Dice Roller or Tetris clone

I have the dream of assembling a team of good Latin translators to complete the translation of Linux Mint and help create the first major operating system entirely in Latin.

2. Victionarium

Love Wiktionary? I know I do. How about Wiktionary in Latin? Create definitions and dictionary entries for Latin words, in Latin. The more it's built up, the better this resource would be for learning new words.

Helping add Latin words or forms to the English Wiktionary is also helpful, sed scīlicet the Latin one needs in more.

3. Vicipaedia

Another Wikimedia project, who could've guessed? The Latin Wikipedia, Vicipaedia, is another great resource and one that could use more contributors. If you are knowledgeable, willing to learn, and good at Latin writing, try it out!

4. LibriVox

Are you one of the few that enjoy and are confident speaking Latin? Even if you're not, practice makes perfect! LibriVox is well known for a host of free audiobooks, and this includes ones in Latin. They could certainly use more volunteers for the language, no matter which pronunciation system or cadence you prefer.

Places with a 'Latin' Post Setting

There are a few places you can write or post where you specifically can mark a post as being in Latin, and filter accordingly. Any I run across will be put below

1. AO3

Not a huge surprise—unlike the 99 currently existing Latin fics.

2. BlueSky

The Twitter clone from a while back has a language search and select with Latin (and some other old languages too)

If anyone has anymore places/projects to add, subtus narrā mihi!

[aeliem]

50+1 characters mass attack lets gooooo!

starting from top left corner, by color:

Jeeb by @satellite-starss Aricus by StereotypicalDadKiwi (instagram) Icarus by Wofhund (instagram) Cookie by @bubbleice Saturn sans (Spacetale) by @coziroses Dunno by normalmonster_ (toyhouse) Bolt and Enthra by @kevinzhechair Drake by @vettryce Knucker by @dandy-doodles Demolition by @crewicide Bliss by @astronnonyy Fairy (Undertale au) by @1-hope-and-dreams-1 Goekart P. Patroli by aedgy_piyama (twitter) B Liquorice by LoadNeon (toyhouse) Stratus by nuro (toyhouse) Doll by CannibalCanine (toyhouse) Lotus by Ley Hallow by @templiares Ruby by Bubbab (toyhouse) Katima by LucasIsVeryCool01 (instagram) MISERY by @dollopopaint Default by @ilexlio King Sai by @80smal Rixu by Star_Mads (instagram) SPIDER! by Wiltedlurantis (twitter) Rory by @sunnymainecoonx Claw by Lievias Domino by @t1redscr1bblez (instagram) Nathe!Sans by @nova2cosmos Ender by @violetviolacz Eclipse by st4rscribble (toyhouse) Inverse by Efisga (toyhouse) Nova by @tatatale Lyd G. by velisias (carrd) Lost Souls!Clone by @dainty-berry Garin by @pinkapop Slick by Razlovesskeles (toyhouse) Mixtape by @lambsbite Messon by @huskiescanfly Candyman by Sensitive pixels by winniecub (toyhouse) Voy by @kuriliancharlie Lattice by @ofwishesandstars Death by Under_Death220 (tiktok) Cerys by @fixithefox Mushroom Skeletons (parrot waxcap) by @black-wolf-spirit-art Life (Life!Sans) by FlamingPhoenixDragon (toyhouse) Hazard by MontyLovebug (toyhouse) Linux by @thatfruitychaos

[andmaybegayer]

Hello. So what's the deal with computer chips? Let's say, for example, that I wanted to build a brand new Sega Genesis. Ignoring firmware and software, what's stopping me from dissecting their proprietary chips and reverse-engineering them to make new ones? It's just electric connections and such inside, isn't it? If I match the pin ins and outs, shouldn't it be easy? So why don't people do it?

The answer is that people totally used to do this, there's several examples of chips being cloned and used to build compatible third-party hardware, the most famous two examples being famiclones/NESclones and Intel 808X clones.

AMD is now a major processor manufacturer, but they took off in the 70's by reverse-engineering Intel's 8080 processor. Eventually they were called in to officially produce additional 8086 chips under license to meet burgeoning demand for IBM PC's, but that was almost a decade later if I remember correctly.

There were a ton of other 808X clones, like the Soviet-made pin-compatible K1810VM86. Almost anyone with a chip fab was cloning Intel chips back in the 80's, a lot of it was in the grey area of reverse engineering the chips.

Companies kept cloning Intel processors well into the 386 days, but eventually the processors got too complicated to easily clone, and so only companies who licensed designs could make them, slowly reducing the field down to Intel, AMD, and Via, who still exist! Via's CPU division currently works on the Zhaoxin x86_64 processors as part of the ongoing attempts to homebrew a Chinese-only x86 processor.

I wrote about NES clones a while ago, in less detail, so here's that if you want to read it:

Early famiclones worked by essentially reverse-engineering or otherwise cloning the individual chips inside an NES/famicom, and just reconstructing a compatible device from there. Those usually lacked any of the DRM lockout chips built into the original NES, and were often very deeply strange, with integrated clones of official peripherals like the keyboard and mouse simply hardwired directly into the system.

These were sold all over the world, but mostly in developing economies or behind the Iron Curtain where official Nintendo stuff was harder to find. I had a Golden China brand Famiclone growing up, which was a common famiclone brand around South Africa.

Eventually the cost of chip fabbing came down and all those individual chips from the NES were crammed onto one cheap piece of silicon and mass produced for pennies each, the NES-on-a-chip. With this you could turn anything into an NES, and now you could buy a handheld console that ran pirated NES game for twenty dollars in a corner store. In 2002. Lots of edutainment mini-PC's for children were powered by these, although now those are losing out to Linux (and now Android) powered tablets a la Leapfrog.

Nintendo's patents on their hardware designs expired throughout the early 2000's and so now the hardware design was legally above board, even if the pirated games weren't. You can still find companies making systems that rely on these NES chips, and there are still software houses specializing in novel NES games.

Why doesn't this really happen anymore? Well, mostly CPU's and their accoutrements are too complicated. Companies still regularly clone their competitors simpler chips all the time, and I actually don't know if Genesis clones exist, it's only a Motorola 68000k, but absolutely no one is cloning a modern Intel or AMD processor.

The die of a Motorola 68000 (1979)

A classic Intel 8080 is basically the kind of chip you learn about in entry level electrical engineering, a box with logic gates that may be complicated, but pretty straightforwardly fetches things from memory, decodes, executes, and stores. A modern processor is a magic pinball machine that does things backwards and out of order if it'll get you even a little speedup, as Mickens puts it in The Slow Winter:

I think that it used to be fun to be a hardware architect. Anything that you invented would be amazing, and the laws of physics were actively trying to help you succeed. Your friend would say, “I wish that we could predict branches more accurately,” and you’d think, “maybe we can leverage three bits of state per branch to implement a simple saturating counter,” and you’d laugh and declare that such a stupid scheme would never work, but then you’d test it and it would be 94% accurate, and the branches would wake up the next morning and read their newspapers and the headlines would say OUR WORLD HAS BEEN SET ON FIRE. You’d give your buddy a high-five and go celebrate at the bar, and then you’d think, “I wonder if we can make branch predictors even more accurate,” and the next day you’d start XOR’ing the branch’s PC address with a shift register containing the branch’s recent branching history, because in those days, you could XOR anything with anything and get something useful, and you test the new branch predictor, and now you’re up to 96% accuracy, and the branches call you on the phone and say OK, WE GET IT, YOU DO NOT LIKE BRANCHES, but the phone call goes to your voicemail because you’re too busy driving the speed boats and wearing the monocles that you purchased after your promotion at work. You go to work hung-over, and you realize that, during a drunken conference call, you told your boss that your processor has 32 registers when it only has 8, but then you realize THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY LIE ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL REGISTERS, and you invent a crazy hardware mapping scheme from virtual registers to physical ones, and at this point, you start seducing the spouses of the compiler team, because it’s pretty clear that compilers are a thing of the past, and the next generation of processors will run English-level pseudocode directly.

Die shot of a Ryzen 5 2600 core complex (2019)

Nowadays to meet performance parity you can't just be pin-compatible and run at the right frequency, you have to really do a ton of internal logical optimization that is extremely opaque to the reverse engineer. As mentioned, Via is making the Zhaoxin stuff, they are licensed, they have access to all the documentation needed to make an x86_64 processor, and their performance is still barely half of what Intel and AMD can do.

Companies still frequently clone each others simpler chips, charge controllers, sensor filters, etc. but the big stuff is just too complicated.

[bleghablah]

I gotta build a drive cloning rig today for work. Do I

1. use Windows because it'll be easier to use it headless with the other equipment I have?

2. use Linux because fuck yeah I love Linux?

[kompreya]

I've been moving over to Linux (KDE) and it's honestly been a great experience.

It's been years since I touched any unix system but I've always known what I was getting into. I am quite surprised how far Linux as a whole has come since then especially for desktop environments (it's always been fantastic for servers and specialized systems)

Installing it was stupid easy.

Setting things up took more work than what you might expect on windows (cloning and building git repos with dependencies via terminal as opposed to one click installers) but the tradeoff is things don't come with bloat, are tweaked specifically for my machine and system, I know exactly what I installed, and it runs better than windows in many cases. Overall a happy camper there.

KDE is quite something else as well. Lots of cool features you could either only dream of or have to pay money for on other OSes.

The modularity and flexibility of the Linux system is something I honestly forgot about and continue to be giddy about. I like having Lain-levels of control over my machine.

And games? God damn FFXIV runs better here than windows I've been scammed

[nixcraft]

How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux

[kuromi-hoemie]

you have 7+ computers ? ? i am so curious about the uses for them o_o

linux:

drawing laptop

older laptop w shitty battery

mini PC i use to clone a bunch of laptops in my home office (work related)

windows

work laptop

gaming PC/general use

old art mini PC, i don't rly use this much bc drawing worked nicer on Linux and I'm on hiatus w music for the foreseeable future

mini PC mounted to the ceiling by a projector in the living room, for movie nights n stuff :3 this is the one that could be moved to Linux

[teaforkenobi]

Nine (or however many) people you'd like to get to know better

Thank you for the tag, @heretolurkandnothingmore!

Last Song: "Sights" by London Grammar (Was listening because it's on my Obikin playlist, but it's also coincidentally one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands.)

Favorite Color: Cerulean! Not sure what it says about me that I picked both my favorite color and my favorite number as a child, but here we are.

Currently Watching: The Clone Wars. Almost done with season two, so lots of pain to go! :')

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Yes, yes, and yes. If I had to pick one, it would be spicy.

Relationship Status: Happily married! My wife and I met in my last fandom, and I moved to another country to be with her three years ago, so basically we're living our own fanfic.

Current Obsession: If you're on this blog, you're looking at it.

Last Thing You Googled: "font manager linux"

Tag a few friends, new and old: Well, I have no old friends on this shiny Tumblr, so they will all be new! @sendpseuds @underacalicosky @grapenehifics @betweensaintsandmonsters @kingofattolia @tideswept (No pressure, obviously.)

[seth-burroughs]

benefits of being yomi kin:

makes me twice as cool and sexy and automatically makes me the objectively correct authority on Yomi's character it is impossible for me to be wrong and if u tell me im wrong ill start scream crying on the floor

won kin lottery and is capable of distinguishing between Yomi Hellsmile the character and Yomi Hellsmile The Character allowing me to both quite literally be that guy and keep another version of him as my blorbo. Manifesting in the ability of fantasizing bout yomi suffering iykwim AND getting past the masochist allegations <3 Also yeah the Yomi fic is currently in works no I will not answer questions on it

this yaoihellsmile shit is sooo easy someone asks me "ouuuyy honey unwrangle my dingle in ur boioioiong and by sproingle well heh lets jsut say. my peanits. any thoughts on that mr yaoi?" and i just answer honestly straight from the heart no bullshit no rp skillz required

woaghhhhhh......... Former director of the peacekeepers homunculus clone Yomi Hellsmile from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code by Spike Chunsoft........ holy shshshit. He's Real......

disadvantages of being yomi kin:

the regular bullshittery that comes free with being fictionkin of any kind cut my wife into pieces this is my last divorce

everybody and their mom hates Yomi and even if the tag here is way less outright aggressive and I can just easily block anyone who makes me uncomfortable in any capacity, youtube is just unusable. Just. AuUUUghhhh. I know one of my fave dr youtubers is gonna play mdarc this year and I also know he's gonna absolutely hate Yomi with a passion and frequently pause the game to talk about how terrible he his yes we get it you are allowed to have opinions on fictional characters and aren't doing anything wrong by it whatever im gonns look up yomi softcore on pixiv fuka u

overly complicates my already fucked sense of self

Blood cravings got even worse😔 bad BAD this isn't sustenance it's toxic as hell christ dude STOP❗❗

not extremely likely but still very possible nightmare scenario where the precipitation cipher gets Big attracting those people and getting bombarded with kinnie jokes and annoying Ironic Kin For Fun crowd finding its way here. And that is the at best scenario, the worst one is 2015 kin drama reignited in 2020s you can't "kin" this character unless you're x or x, you can absolutely control who you're kin with and if i don't like your very voluntary choice you should stop (just stop man <3 i won't tell you how the fuck 😊) being fictionkin with a sinful evil abuser linux user makes you a bad person that deserves to be ostracized and harassed until you unlearn your problematic ways oh my god do any of you remember 2015 warrior cat kin drama what the fuck was that. i wasn't around in danganronpa fandom during that time but im pretty sure it may have been even worse there which is insane to even think about. but i mean like hey at least fictionkin were taken (mostly.) seriously back then (albeit considered deeply cringe by the masses) and not reduced to a cheap komaeda kinnies amiright joke

i suffered more than jesus actually. the demotion and arrest was SUPER unfair and cringe guys i promise im not gonna torture people from now on you can trust me in a position of power please please please no one did it like i did it

EJ MARTINA DZIE MIE KURWA WYWIEŹLI CO TO ZA ZADUPIE MARTINA. MARTINA NIE WYTRZYMAM JUŻ WEŹ HELIKOPTER I MIE KURWA ZABIERZ Z TEGO CHLEWU MAM DOŚĆ POMOCY <- wygnany do Rzeczypospolitej za swoje zbrodnie😔

Yomi is Real (threatening)

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

It's easy, they said 😶

Changed the deck's ssd, and every step along the way was stressful enough I now have 5% more grey hair.

Stripped one of the screws. Guess my screwdriver sucked, but god is it hard to find clear instructions which size to use. (With the ifixit set, for me it was a PH1 for the backplate and a PH0 for the internal ones.)

Ordered a new set of bits, a screw remover set (which didn't end up working, but got it out with a tiny flathead instead), and a new set of screws. Together with the SSD, could have just bought the more expensive tier of the deck in the first place 😅

Prying the backplate off was stressful, omg. All the cracky noises. (Thanks to the ifixit video reminding me to remove the microSD, would have snapped it in half.)

"Just unplug the battery!" There was nothing "just" about it, googled, and wriggled, and pried, and wriggled some more, and scraped off some fingernail trying to get that damn connector out.

Meanwhile actually changing the ssd took like 1 minute.

Still haven't put the screws back in (wanted to see if everything works first). Might give it a few days and keep an eye on the thermals just in case.

I ended up buying an usb case for nvme ssds and cloned my drive. Didn't even need to install software, Linux does that with a single command. It worked perfectly fine, except that somehow, Steam has forgotten most of its settings, which really, small issue, but mildly hilarious. Yes, everything is still there, but here, have some beep sounds on menu navigation and all your emulated games forgot that they used to be in a collection.

Was it worth it? I think so.

I've owned the thing for 2 years now, so I am absolutely certain of two things: 1) it's worth the money and more b) 256 GB is too little space for me and sd cards won't be saving me.

The main reason why I wanted an upgrade is that one of my games performs terribly off the micro sd. It took several minutes to load into a map; quickly hopping in to kill a boss? Sorry, boss is dead now.

Unfortunately, that game is also 72+ GB and can't just be finished and uninstalled, so that's like 1/3 of the space permanently taken.

Also honestly, navigating two of each common and compatdata-folders for savegame hunting, mod installing or snoop-around-in-files-purposes is just a huge pain in the ass. I'm sure it works for those people who think changing a wallpaper is witchcraft, but I like mods/reshade and not every game I like supports cloud saves.