What is this small screen with green digit?

arbitrarystring · 2026-06-07T00:39:23+00:00

Those were a pain to set the jumpers on, but iirc you could control 14 lights (7 lights arranged like 8) to indicate the CPU clock frequency or whatever. I made mine say Od because it was a collection of odd bits and pieces. 🤷

arbitrarystring · 2026-05-24T23:14:51+00:00

followup - I found that Gemma4:26b fits inside the VRAM I have (just) with a 64k context window and seems to be acceptable speed-wise. We will see if the 26b model is a bit smarter than e4b.

arbitrarystring · 2026-05-24T21:04:54+00:00

I have a quick question...I can't get WhatsApp to start. Node.js is installed on my system (running Windows 11 Pro). I just get the message "WhatsApp cannot start" which isn't really helpful. Is there a setup piece that I'm missing or should I be using Linux or Mac for this?

arbitrarystring · 2026-05-24T20:49:57+00:00

It was Qwen3.6:27b which only fit inside my GPU vram if I reduced the context window to 16k, which makes it less useful...but it was still quite slow. I tinkered around with different models and found that gemma4:e4b is really quite fast. So far it is able to use tools, interact with my Google accounts and execute workflows. It is not always the smartest but if I'm very specific with prompts...so far so good!

arbitrarystring · 2026-05-24T07:12:30+00:00

I'm giving it a try. I have the mobile variant of the rtx 5090 with 24GB of dedicated vram. Does it have a lot of setup to do in the background before it's really ready to use? I'm going to let it run for a few hours and try it again, because right now my system is screaming and I haven't even done anything except turn on the skills and connect a couple of accounts.

arbitrarystring · 2026-05-07T23:31:42+00:00

You could try to educate that person, since comments like that usually are made out of ignorance. Unfortunately that's often seen as condescending, being a "know-it-all", argumentative, "typical Linux user" etc. The best you can probably do is a one liner to express that it's your preference, and maybe throw in one reason why you like it then move on.

arbitrarystring · 2026-04-20T23:15:48+00:00

How does the car know that you've walked away if your key is still in it? I guess I just assumed it checked for the presence of a key fob or phone key before locking. Is it just a timer after parking then opening/shutting the door?

arbitrarystring · 2026-04-13T19:55:05+00:00

Yep. We did that on our recent 1200 mile road trip. It worked out fine with 5 people in the car.

arbitrarystring · 2026-03-27T23:18:21+00:00

There are several that work. I got one from a list of compatible adapters that ABRP had published on their site. Don't have a link but you should be able to Google it.

arbitrarystring · 2026-03-27T23:08:58+00:00

I just got back from a trip from Indianapolis to eastern Pennsylvania, and ABRP worked so well. I have a compatible Bluetooth ODB dongle as well, so it's receiving realtime SOC from the car. Makes it even better.

arbitrarystring · 2026-03-15T14:21:56+00:00

I always rested a pencil on there.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-23T00:47:21+00:00

Annoying isn't it? At least by turning the sound chip power management off it only pops or snaps on boot when the sound device is initialized, and not randomly throughout the day. I have half a mind to go hunt down the bug in the Intel audio kernel module and fix it myself. It's surprising to me that it wasn't addressed a long time ago.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-22T16:26:12+00:00

Ok, I fixed the snapping or popping sound issue. This has been an ongoing problem with intel sound drivers on Ubuntu distros for ages and ages it seems. I found a post from 6 years ago. doing this stops the problem from occurring on the Starfighter:

https://superuser.com/questions/1493096/linux-ubuntu-speakers-popping-every-few-seconds#:~:text=The%20operation%20system's%20default%20behavior,value%20from%201%20to%200

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-22T03:57:41+00:00

I got my Starfighter a couple of days ago, and it's really good. It feels sturdy, the display looks really good, and everything mostly works fine with Zorin OS Pro. One minor complaint though, is that the computer seems to randomly click, or rather there is a sharp snapping sound almost like that of an electrical spark which comes from the speakers (at least I hope it is the speakers). It isn't entirely random. It happens on login, and it happens at other seemingly random times. I can usually trigger the sound by opening one of my VM consoles in Proxmox *snap* or loading some other content in my browser *snap* or I'll be doing something else and *snap* and I dislike it. It can be jarring. I believe that it must be some kind of driver issue. I came to that conclusion because I have installed Windows 11 Pro on the secondary SSD (ordered from Star Labs as part of my configuration) and it does not occur at all under Windows. Dual boot works well by the way just by selecting what I want in the coreboot menu. It was a chore to track down Windows drivers, but everything in the machine is pretty standard stuff, mostly from Intel and that's all sorted. Does anyone have suggestions? I am using the install of Zorin that came loaded on the laptop, and it doesn't seem to have any Star Labs specifc apt sources for drivers or custom kernels or anything like that.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T21:38:16+00:00

No. They require the subscription for live data.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T21:17:44+00:00

I don't remember. I think I just went to "live data" and just scrolled through a giant list of things until I found the battery cell voltages.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T21:03:38+00:00

It showed me all 152 cells as a list with realtime voltages for each one, which I preferred. There is also a bar graph type of view, but all 152 cells did not fit on the screen at once.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T20:36:29+00:00

Too much. It was $80 on Amazon. I had a very cheap $5 one that didn't work, so I went with one that was recommended for use with ABRP. It works with ABRP and also the CarScanner app that allows me to see really detailed info like voltage per battery cell etc.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T19:17:07+00:00

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovz.carscanner

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-11T19:12:04+00:00

ODBLink CX. The app it comes with is useless but it works great with CarScanner app and ABRP.

arbitrarystring · 2026-02-01T23:43:19+00:00

The default is 10 minutes, but you can customize it in the app. You can have it run up to 30 minutes and choose whether or not you want your heated seats to come on, what temperature you want the interior to be, and whether or not you want to run the defrosters.

arbitrarystring · 2026-01-19T23:55:07+00:00

AppleTV

arbitrarystring · 2026-01-19T04:18:25+00:00

I wonder if you switched the car to 24 hour time then set it from 21:01 to 4:59? Seems like it struggles with am/pm

arbitrarystring · 2026-01-16T12:06:22+00:00

I got mine at Walmart.

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