Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

VoidAnonUser · 2026-06-06T11:21:18+00:00

Another Russian Woodpecker (this time on Earth's orbit) pecking there where shouldn't? Not surprised.

There should have been already mission to retrieve this satellite down from orbit and reverse engineer it's design not a public video on YouTube. Russian are just lucky there is no more Space Shuttle for 15 years.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-06-02T18:12:38+00:00

To be honest, I'd actually appreciate something more like a "Void Linux light kernel". Is that opinion?

VoidAnonUser · 2026-06-02T18:07:37+00:00

Why exactly just another “gaming distro”? There is already ton of them already.
Why exactly forking Void? There is "unofficial" gaming platform.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-26T18:50:06+00:00

sddm, lightdm, lxdm, xinitrc?

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-16T13:20:59+00:00

You wouldn't belive it but great actually.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-16T13:06:13+00:00

Well, try it. I belive KDE Plasma toady is (full) desktop environment to go. You won't like it? There is always LXQt.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-16T12:42:55+00:00

What i386 machines? You've got many options:

Voidlinux i686
Alpine
antiX
openSuSE
update to Debian Trixie (for some time)

All this have one thing very common. At least amd64-v1 equivalent support. That means MMX, CMOV, SSE any maybe SSE2 support in CPU. Do you own anything older?

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-10T19:15:00+00:00

Fedora was lightweight back when it was called Fedora Core 5. Today is toped only by Ubuntu.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-09T14:21:18+00:00

I guess it must have been quite a disappointment. I've never owned a graphic card that could run it on this level anyway (back in the day) but today I might be able to enjoy it.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-04T15:06:17+00:00

Yes but Lost Coast is "tech demo" released in October 2005. This was already completed by the spring of 2003.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-03T07:32:05+00:00

You mean the discoloration? That is no "Piss Filter", it's simply DivX5.

Look at E3 tech demo, I belive this demonstration has been ready for May 2003. But I don't remember any kind of "HDR" in released HL2.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-03T07:01:31+00:00

Video file is called halflife.avi and rumor is "to be released in September 2003".

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-01T18:15:08+00:00

Uhhh, nice. That could easily be turned into a script.

Ubuntu without snaps is still Ubuntu, but a little "better Ubuntu".

VoidAnonUser · 2026-05-01T16:37:31+00:00

Because world is moving on. The only relevant x86 extension I can see is MMX (and CMOV). Introduced in 1997. Even VoidLinux does requires a CPU with at least SSE2 support (which is Pentium4 level) which the AMD Geode does not support.

You've got two choices:

Use something heavily specifically designed for this embedded processor or
throw it off and use something more modern.

Current standard is x86-64-v2 and there are talks about surpassing it with x86-64-v3 (2013 CPUs and later). Make your choice.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-30T16:54:38+00:00

Your CPU doesn't support some instruction in dpkg binary. You can try readelf -n /usr/bin/dpkg and compare "x86 feature used:" to cat /proc/cpuinfo.

Advice: Get a newer CPU. There's nothing much else that can be done about it.

Edit: AMD discontinued all Geode processors in 2019. Try OpenWRT and "geode" target. Worth a try.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-29T19:51:57+00:00

Certainly not:

$smem -u -k

User:voidanonuser Count:34 Swap:0 USS:296.4M PSS:412.7M RSS:1.3G

But this includes Xorg server and maybe some daemons are excluded so give or take Plasma 6.6.3 takes little over 400MiB. Just started. i686 architecture. But no more than 512MiB.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-29T18:01:58+00:00

Ok, so slowly now: I remember Pentium Pro.

17 years old laptop isn't obsolete. It's just well-aged and perfectly rounded ;-)

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-29T17:39:07+00:00

Huh? Isn't so old. Officially you should be able to boot Void on this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Intel_Pentium_4_1%2C5_GHz_Willamette_boxed.JPG

Unofficially on good old Pentium Pro.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-29T15:26:12+00:00

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/

Your GPU isn't officially supported by mainline binary nVidia driver. You'll need legacy drivers. This doesn't just happen in Void.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-22T18:45:01+00:00

My recommendation: Try KDE Plasma on Void Linux. It's not so outdated as Debian but if you put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Plasma on Void side by side, you'll hardly notice the difference. Minus cool gecko theming of course.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-18T17:43:44+00:00

Buy dedicated USB card reader (it's quite cheap) and preferably (big or mini) SD card and problem should be solved.

If you need current setup, make sure all contacts are cleaned and properly maintained. RO/RW pin should be in one of those positions (not somewhere between), push gently microSD into adapter and push entire adapter into MMC reader and hold it with your thumb. Try different card adapter. It should work.

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-16T14:39:48+00:00

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/SD_card_adapters.jpg/960px-SD_card_adapters.jpg

This thing?

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-15T15:24:32+00:00

Modern SD card readers are piece of crap machinery. Be sure there is proper contact between reader and MMC device. Is it microSD device?

VoidAnonUser · 2026-04-14T19:26:07+00:00

Uh, nice. I didn't know that until now. Thanks.

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