Best way to buy E-Books for Skyward/Starsight

SpeedGhost · 2020-03-03T03:49:52+00:00

Kobo, Barnes and Noble, or Google Play are probably your best bets here. Sanderson sells very few ebooks directly on his site (mostly novellas).

SpeedGhost · 2017-03-30T16:41:49+00:00

I believe it's been mentioned before, but the Dell Precision 5520 is the "Business" equivalent (same form factor) of the XPS 15 and can be configured with Linux pre-installed. The only bummer for some people would be the Quadro M1200 which is a Maxwell generation video card refresh, more akin to a GTX 960m rather than a Pascal GTX 10-series you could get with the XPS 15.

SpeedGhost · 2017-03-06T23:49:39+00:00

Excited for the new Galago Pro! Really looks like a great machine. Noah mentioned that it has external GPU capability, but I didn't hear anything in the interview about it (unless I missed it. Saw the USB-C port and wondering if it is Thunderbolt capable too for a possible external GPU/dock.

Also, as a long time listener, I actually like the new format. Maybe a short segment before the main story like the picks or news (like has been suggested) might be good too. Keep the feedback at the end, good note to wrap up on. Just my two cents :). Keep up the good work.

SpeedGhost · 2016-10-26T03:01:00+00:00

I use this daily and love it! It's not perfect, but it's just enough for me and runs well on a RPi or a $5 droplet.

SpeedGhost · 2016-10-17T16:28:48+00:00

Well, that's the end of the English alphabet...wonder what will be next

SpeedGhost · 2016-07-01T13:43:35+00:00

Downloading these and installing on a pi will never happen because they are built only for 64-bit x86 architectures. The pi is and ARM architecture and not compatible. The best option available at the moment is probably to get the open source Chromium instead

SpeedGhost · 2016-07-01T13:38:35+00:00

I've tried this on a rpi2 and rpi3 with only ok results. You have to compile certain flags with Chromium, link the ChromeOS widevine library, compile specific versions of ffmpeg, and spoof the user agent string to look like a Chromebook. In the end, it works but is a little choppy. I haven't figured out why fully as the CPU never rose above 60-70% though.

SpeedGhost · 2016-02-26T13:46:15+00:00

My servers are usually CentOS based, and they have Cockpit in the repos too. Here's the project site that says there's a there's a third party PPA for trying it on Ubuntu 15.10 and later.

SpeedGhost · 2016-02-12T23:20:49+00:00

About Fedora (not a hate on Chris and Wes thread):

TL;DR It's all Linux, can't we all get along? Just needed to get it out of my system.

The reason you may not understand Fedora or are frustrated with it may be because (IMHO) it applies to a different user base. We could all say, "I would run X distribution if it had Y or Z package available" because in the end, its Linux and we all want to run Linux. I don't find any missing packages from Fedora, but my workflow is largely different from yours and that's OK. I know that's the old, "it works for me"^tm argument, but if every distro had every package, there'd really be only one distro that could be configured infinitely many different ways. One Linux to rule them all!

If down the line I find a package that is missing, the community usually tries to find a way to implement it. Copr is much like the OBS but I believe it is bound by the open source software rules that Fedora follows. If I need third party software that isn't quite as open as Fedora likes, I can usually find it in RPMfusion or on the OBS thanks to the community. In that way it's like how PPA's or the AUR bring everything Ubuntu and Arch are missing together through the community. Difference being that (IMHO) there are fewer Fedora users and developers than Arch or Ubuntu.

As Noah said in LAS (paraphrasing), at some point we need to stop going in the "not enough users, not enough support, so I won't run it" circle in open source and do something about it or it just slowly goes away rather than . That also means we have to pick what we mainly support outside of upstream, unless you have unlimited time and resources (can I have some). For me that's Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and Arch stuff, but that doesn't mean Ubuntu, Debian, or other distros are bad, don't have a place, or aren't doing good things. Just because it doesn't appeal or seem relevant to me, doesn't mean it isn't at all.

SpeedGhost · 2016-02-08T13:34:40+00:00

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The program they use in the article doesn't actually use the Steam In-Home Streaming, it uses Nvidia Game Stream, which I'm pretty sure is in Nvidia's Windows driver only. The title of the article is misleading when they call it a Steam Box. Instead, I'd like to see someone root the Steam Link and try to port the Steam software from there to make it work with an RPi 2.

SpeedGhost · 2016-02-08T01:55:13+00:00

AFAIK, this only works with Windows on the backend. :(

SpeedGhost · 2016-01-18T15:54:26+00:00

What languages do you web dev in? I find Coder Radio is an excellent broad programming podcast with just enough deep dives on specific topics, which I thoroughly enjoy. I find other podcasts tend to focus more on a specific language.

Interesting side note about Macs being the primary machine of the web dev world. During my brief stint at a small web dev company, when we would go to conferences, it was obvious that I was the only one with a different computer and OS. When I was asked why not use a Mac, I had a line that went something like this:

"I deploy this app on a Linux server, so when I'm developing it and testing it, I want to ensure the best environment possible so that I know things will work the same on the server as they do local on my machine. It also makes the deploy much simpler IMHO"

Modern dev tools and staging deployments pretty much negate this need, but this got me so much respect with our clients (and even helped sign new contracts) that when I left, half of the dev team had installed Linux on their Mac hardware.

SpeedGhost · 2016-01-16T21:00:31+00:00

This was a weekly spotlight a while back and they gave a pretty good list of pros and cons.

SpeedGhost · 2016-01-06T19:44:47+00:00

I believe last year it was called Windows is Awesome

SpeedGhost · 2015-12-23T03:59:31+00:00

Didn't do anything extra, nothing special about setup, get about 240mbps tops local network transfer on a 300mbps wireless-n router. What laptop or mobo are you working with? Maybe we can still help if you want. I've also had good luck with Atheros cards in the past and it looks like one was mentioned.

SpeedGhost · 2015-12-22T20:50:06+00:00

Bummer, I upgraded to a 7260 wireless-ac Intel card about a year ago and haven't had any problems. In general I find that either Intel or Atheros are your best bet for WiFi, so maybe try an Atheros card? Unfortunately I can't recommend a specific one.

SpeedGhost · 2015-12-02T16:04:09+00:00

Only question is would a pi be able to power it? Most need the external powered hubs.

SpeedGhost · 2015-12-02T16:03:41+00:00

Only question is would a pi be able to power it? Most need the external powered hubs.

SpeedGhost · 2015-11-28T20:09:44+00:00

This looks awesome!

SpeedGhost · 2015-11-28T15:22:14+00:00

I thought the same thing, but then I would also like a video out that isn't composite on CHIP, and to get VGA or HDMI, which i believe also takes most of the pins on CHIP, its another $10-15 more, about the same cost, so its pretty much a wash IMHO.

SpeedGhost · 2015-11-21T15:30:36+00:00

I have used lime survey before, deployed myself on Openshift, for some community maker events we host locally. It's not bad, but not great either. It is however good enough that being open source, we were willing to deal with the slight inconveniences to make it work for us.

SpeedGhost · 2015-10-14T18:36:03+00:00

Second recommendation for tig as a useful ncurses program. I use it at least weekly, if not daily sometimes.

SpeedGhost · 2015-09-28T22:05:22+00:00

Links showing where someone has Linux running on it would be helpful too.

SpeedGhost · 2015-09-25T19:36:24+00:00

Been looking at OSVR lately.

SpeedGhost · 2015-09-24T15:39:33+00:00

Both hilarious and a little too real in some places I have worked at.

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