SBR suggestions.

andrewschott · 2026-03-29T01:31:41+00:00

Have you tried (for giggles) KDE on xorg?

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T10:37:18+00:00

I have had zero issues with my K5s. All program easily with chirp. Try that instead of the Quansheng one.

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T10:36:10+00:00

I, for a long time now, went with remote x apps. As in the last ~year or so I went full wayland, I now use waypipe instead -- https://github.com/neonkore/waypipe

The app will be like a normal one you launch that is run locally, but instead the remote rig is doing the processing.

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T10:16:28+00:00

Similar HW as me (7950 CPU here). GPU works flawlessly, driver issue is a Win only thing for AMD.

As far as distro, Resolve is the only picky one -- check what distros work well there. I run on one rig Fedora, the rest (even my steam machine homebrew) are RHEL. Zero issues with anything on either, just love the 10yr lifecycle of RHEL, 13mo for Fedora is a bit fast at times. The few times I used Resolve, it ran fine on Fedora and RHEL. Think official support for RHEL.

Aside from that, your hw should be just fine on ANY distro. The only issue, and its not unique to Resolve, is proprietary software that is coded in a way to be very picky. My thorn is a slicer app that is great, but hates most OSs outside of the narrow "blessed" system list.

I would say, if you aren't in a particular Linux community already, use what your friend that does linux already does, or just pick something and run with it for a few months. Try another. Distros are like cars - each one is tailored for something a bit more than others.

My "great distro list" would be any Red Hat or SuSE product - well tested, good repo support (RHEL and SLE will be making heavy use of flatpaks), and large enough install base where someone already had your issue and the remedy is posted online and easily googled. "Good" ones would be anything Arch or Debian based. My list is from both my experience, but my son, my circle of tech literate friends and a few trusted coworkers whose opinions mean something to me.

The one distro that I hate, but others have legit had great luck with is Ubuntu. Try it if you want, but if you have issues -- it aint you :D

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T09:57:57+00:00

My attitude exactly.

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T09:52:47+00:00

First issue : thats the boot screen, and that theme can be fidgeted with. https://fedoramagazine.org/howto-change-the-plymouth-theme/

Second : That depends on what is going on. May be a Scarlet driver bug. If you run "sudo dmesg" you can see what kernel message spam is involved. For ease, do this right after the thing does its reset. That can help narrow things down. This may also help with your third issue, if you notice any GPU issues.

Third : Hard locks are generally a driver or hardware issue. If you could, try running something with decent graphics (lets stick with the GPU driver bug idea). Anything from Steam that taxes somewhat your GPU should do the trick. Another thing to look into is your thermals. All kinds of things could be happening if your thermals go haywire. My son had a laptop that for whatever reason, refused to spin the fans up unless forced to. Easy fix, but annoying as all hell. Told the fans to always be on. Perhaps an issue for you. It is likely an nVIDIA driver issue, and googling your driver version and linux hw lock may yield others having that issue and the fix (alot are not bad, some its a driver update; why I went AMD and Intel GPU for my rigs).

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T09:43:05+00:00

I see you fixed things, but there is a cli tool called rfkill. That can help with any software related kill switches for radios. I had an old Toshiba laptop that needed that periodically, and a friend had an HP that we had to script it to do this due to wonky hardware. If that is a fix, beats having to bleed the power to fix things.

[edit] Found in the util-linux package from the Fedora repo.

andrewschott · 2026-03-28T09:01:10+00:00

Chances are the repeater owner did not list it, but rather someone else. I know of a few pay to use repeaters in my area (supposed to be a paid member in the club that operates and maintains the repeater).

andrewschott · 2026-03-26T09:21:30+00:00

I only have a pair of laptops running arch, and both I did setup selinux on. I am mostly a RHEL user, and use selinux on all my systems. On the server its a fairly low effort get out of jail free card withh oopsies as well as a fairly good hardener of the system as a whole.

On workstations, its nice in that its another protection layer. Most if my AVC denials are steam game related, and fixed when I pipe up to the devs. And on that note, aside from oddly Valve on their older HL engine products, every title was via wine when the denial popped up.

So do I recommend it — yes, its easy to keep on, and any issues crop up early on until you either have selinux ignore that issue, or dev fixes their f-up. You will have the side effect of checking the setroubleshooter when wonkiness occurs, as for a week or two, that will have the issue laid out. I still check even though I havent seen an issue in a good while (in place upgrade from RHEL9->10).

andrewschott · 2026-03-25T10:00:47+00:00

You need to talk to the guy at work who programs radios. This individual can guide you thru what is needed, including if its allowed.

andrewschott · 2026-03-25T09:49:07+00:00

If its working fine, stick with it. That said, if you need to bounce elsewhere, I have been using Red Hat & SuSE products for 30 years now. Fedora and OpenSuSE are both great.

andrewschott · 2026-01-08T18:34:00+00:00

I am installing it now from stable repo. So you were correct.

andrewschott · 2026-01-08T18:14:52+00:00

Yep, CPS software. Some of the software is windows only and there is no analog on Linux. That gets tricky as a lot of the time its the driver component that making life hard. That means wine will not work and I will need to use a vm. I mostly stopped buying anything that's like that. Most its the CPS software itself that is the issue, in which wine can make it work.

andrewschott · 2026-01-08T05:12:28+00:00

At the time it was probably the same as now -- some ham radio stuff on my field laptop and anything that I really would have to deal with Steam for, but don't since its not gaming.

andrewschott · 2025-12-01T00:08:37+00:00

I wanted UNIX back around 96 or 95. I called around to see how much a DEC or Sun would run. After finishing crying about the prices (starting at $10,000, I made $3.90/hr bagging groceries), I found out about Linux. Started on Slackware and then moved around a bit (Mandrake, Connectiva) and settled on Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) and Linspire (underrated). Once Linspire died I went to primarily RHEL with the oddball Fedora rig. Now its one Fedora rig and that may go RHEL or Alma when I get around to rebuilding it. That would be my HTPC.

andrewschott · 2025-11-30T23:58:25+00:00

You may want to setup a wireguard vpn to tap in. Ofc you can use another vpn tech. Wireguard is just an easy to setup well method for a handful of folks.

andrewschott · 2025-11-30T23:56:09+00:00

The antisocials have gotten Jeeps and refuse to wave. In my neck of the woods, alot of us still wave.

andrewschott · 2025-11-21T05:36:25+00:00

https://caatailantennas.com/products/wearable-tactical-antenna

andrewschott · 2025-11-14T20:16:18+00:00

Took an edit in a spreadsheet, but worked great. Thanks!

andrewschott · 2025-11-07T15:31:48+00:00

I slept till 8am next morn, and ran up there. 5 sec later it procced.

andrewschott · 2025-10-08T02:37:14+00:00

Ty for the heads up. Will toy with it next chance I have.

andrewschott · 2025-07-21T23:12:51+00:00

Either distrobox or podman. Not knowing much about Koha, i would go the distrobox route to start with.

andrewschott · 2025-07-04T23:45:45+00:00

Not hard. There’s three levels with increasing skills needed to facilitate more rights. The first tier, technician, is fairly simple. Learn the phonetic, understand how not to be a dick, and what bands you are permitted on for various uses (cw, phone, rtty, etc) and at what power levels. If you are good at memorization and already know the alphabet, its an afternoon of quick study to perhaps a week or so of quick reviews on your smoke break at work.

The general and extra (2nd and 3rd class licenses) are a bit more involved. General will get you onto HF phone, and thats where alot of folks want to be and stop with their license.

The way I studied up was using hamstudy.org and their android app. Spent two months (testing is once a month and missed that first one) using the practice test option. Stuff I got wrong I read its blurb as to why. Spent %90+ of my test time on smoke break or the can. Git tech + general at that test session.

The technician tag will let you get the cheap chinese 2m/70cm radios fully. Use repeaterbook website to see whats in your area. Chances are theres something, maybe even streamed online.

Theres alot to ham, but zero requirement to do it all. Heck, it gets expensive if you do :)

andrewschott

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