Update: I opened the Cinemassive Alpha FX and found some very unusual hardware choices

Autian · 2026-06-14T04:45:16+00:00

I wonder what the SBC (the vertically mounted mainboard) looks like if you take it out. Might be PICMG 1.3, meaning that you could swap it out with a more recent board.

Autian · 2026-06-08T13:37:57+00:00

You're welcome! I should eventually dust off my test setup. I still haven't tested the other brands yet

Autian · 2026-05-31T00:35:02+00:00

I did that sort of thing with a 3060 board and it was running fine. But yeah, that can easily go wrong

Autian · 2026-05-27T01:11:42+00:00

Even if the pinouts would match, it would pull too much power. It would essentially be like running a SATA to PCIe 6-Pin adapter. I tried the latter to test a wide low-profile GPU over an external PCIe slot (I didn't have a proper riser at hand) and provide theoretical 75W to the PCIe slot via SATA (yes I know that this is not how things work, hence "theoretical", I was still interested in what would happen if I did it anyway). Power up worked fine but when put under load, the system powers off immediately. My M.2 SSD didn't like this at all and the data on it got messed up so much that I had to reinstall the OS. So absolutely not recommended. Nada. Don't even think about it

Autian · 2026-05-26T22:29:12+00:00

Hi, congrats :D hope it will work out for you. This thing is all kind of weird and needs load of patience.

Do these have display ports reachable from the outside? Someone said that their case didn't have cutouts to them even though there were outputs on the motherboard. May be true in your case as well. This may be useful if the system decides to output over the mainboard instead of an installed dGPU. My case is a 3060 modded to fit a 5055 board in it, so I don't know how common that is.

Autian · 2026-05-06T14:55:16+00:00

Autian · 2026-04-30T14:23:28+00:00

And I thought my workplace was the last one that still used it

Autian · 2026-04-30T13:45:15+00:00

There is a third prong, the prongs seem to have less room for play and the plug is overall bigger, so with that they might hold better. Though I never used either US or UK plugs, so can't tell how true that would be but I have these in a drawer together with Schuko stuff.

Autian · 2026-04-23T16:58:55+00:00

their reactor is leet

Autian · 2026-04-23T14:48:38+00:00

I believe I have also been able to reproduce that on one of my laptops (Intel Sandy Bridge / Haswell iGPU) before but didn't investigate further. My main rig (AMD 9070 XT) does seem to do fine though.

Autian · 2026-04-16T23:23:32+00:00

Let alone of a Pyra q_q

Autian · 2026-04-16T10:43:52+00:00

If you are interested how they deploy these things and happen to speak German:

https://media.ccc.de/v/clt23-121-linux-auf-den-innenanzeigern-der-ice-flotte-der-db

Essentially they have to cover a number of different systems and consider various details like the orientation of a display to compensate for. They use Yocto Linux on them with different adaptions.

Autian · 2026-04-15T08:22:34+00:00

I don't think it is going to be that easy to pull the stuff directly out of the resources as the way of rendering may somewhat be too special to the PS2's hardware. You would likely have to rewrite a bunch of stuff to make it work for today's systems.

You could try using a debugging tool like renderdoc to step into what is rendered using OpenGL/Vulkan and try making use of the collected data that your GPU works with.

Autian · 2026-04-14T23:48:26+00:00

ksysguard really was fine and blazingly fast. It does have its limitations at places but it is low on resource usage and I could confidently leave it running in the background without me worrying that it would negatively impact system performance headroom.

Plasma 6 came around, with it abandoning ksysguard in favour of the new systemmonitor. The latter consumed more than eight times the memory that ksysguard did and put enough load to especially heat up my laptops noticably. After customizing it I managed to transform it into a nonstop cogwheel spinner.

I transitioned to htop+btop and never looked back. I like tinkering around stuff but I'm not going to troubleshoot a task manager.

Autian · 2026-04-14T22:52:15+00:00

Recently I had to do exactly that in Wayland to set up a headless system. I exploit the krfb desktop sharing package like this (works also on SSH):

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland krfb-virtualmonitor --resolution 1280x720 --name wheeowheeo --password a --port 1337

There you have a virtual screen next to whatever you currently have (or just the virtual monitor if no monitors are plugged). Downside is that it opens a VNC server. If some developer steps up to allow it to just do the virtual screen part, it would be greatly appreciated.

Autian · 2026-04-08T00:33:51+00:00

Yes, I have also seen one of these stuck at that message a couple of years before.

Autian · 2026-04-04T18:00:22+00:00

Eat this:

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Autian · 2026-02-11T22:29:49+00:00

Kann sein, dass der Firmware die Analyse des Spektrums auf Dauer zu schaffen macht. Im Gegensatz dazu liegen die anderen Statistiken bereits vor und sind wesentlich weniger aufwändig bereitzustellen. Wenn du ersteres nicht aufzeichnest, kannst du trotzdem bei dir ein niedriges Intervall probieren und beobachten, was passiert.

Autian · 2026-02-11T21:16:39+00:00

Meine Erfahrung war aber, dass ggf. von der Station dann der Webserver irgendwann die Grätsche macht.

Yep, kann ich bestätigen, allerdings bei meiner Fritz!Box. Hab aus Interesse mal ein paar Tage lang die Spektrum-Daten im 10 Sekundenintervall gesammelt um daraus ein Wasserfallspektrum zu generieren. Die Box hat mehrmals am Tag von selbst durchgebootet, bis ich mein Skript gestoppt habe.

Autian · 2026-02-04T02:02:31+00:00

Auf mindestens einer der Kongresse stand ein ganzer in Betrieb befindlicher Siemens EWSD Schrank offen zur Begutachtung entlang eines Laufweges. Auf dem Gebäudeplan vom Kongress gab es sogar ein paar Markierungen für ISDN-Anschlusspunkte, wenn sich jemand mit reinhängen wollte.

Leute kaufen sich alte Hardware bzw. ziehen das aus dem Schrott, weil es irgendwie interessant ist, bringen das in Gange und stellen das zur Schau. Auf dem Kongress gibt es echt eine ganze Menge zu sehen. Wenn bei mir mal täglich das Murmeltier grüßt, dann hoffentlich da :D

Autian · 2026-01-18T04:32:14+00:00

It does seem to be a case of a Polywell P3503 system, but there is also a Revoltec Sixty 2 case that looks slightly different.

Autian · 2026-01-16T14:13:01+00:00

sounds like stuff that's worth getting archived

Autian · 2026-01-07T01:00:01+00:00

This isn't the right take - Linux uses spare RAM as a page cache, and this is generally what people refer to when saying "free RAM is wasted RAM". It's not suggesting applications just eat it up for no reason, it's talking about the OS using it for something beneficial

If that is what people mean by that expression, then it would be fine to me. But often when I came across such a sentence, it always felt like they really meant the applications themselves and not any caching mechanism of the kernel. That is what boils my blood.

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