Occasionally I torture myself by looking at real estate in areas that are much cheaper than Boston (where I live). Sometimes this means I get to see hilarity in staging.
Anyone who knows American Sign Language (or can fingerspell) should check out the sculpture in the background of this picture.
Spoiler: it says "LOVπ©"
https://github.com/muesli/duf is seeing a big traffic spike for the past 24 hours, but I haven't got the slightest clue where it's coming from...
Thanks anyway π
Basically this makes an X or Wayland system into a multi-seat terminal server surprisingly easily. After having done this once, I think I could scale it out to a ton of seats really quickly.
Why anyone felt the need to *build* this after, say, 1985 or so is beyond me. But it is cool regardless!
[email protected]:~$ loginctl seat-status seat1
seat1
Sessions: *c2
Devices:
ββ/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.0/drm/card1
β [MASTER] drm:card1
ββ/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.0/drm/renderD128
β drm:renderD128
ββ/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:04:00.1/sound/card0
sound:card0 "NVidia_1"
[...]
[email protected]:~$ loginctl list-seats
SEAT
seat0
seat1
seat23 seats listed.
[email protected]:~$ loginctl list-sessions
SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY
11 1000 fader pts/2
4 1000 fader pts/0
5 1000 fader pts/1
c1 124 lightdm seat0
c2 1000 fader seat1
c3 1001 xayide seat2 6 sessions listed.
Today I learned about `loginctl` which, as expected, controls Linux logins. It's not quite as well documented as I'd like, but after tinkering with it for a while I've done some very cool stuff.
I put two NVidia cards into a 2U server and used `loginctl` to associate each one with an automatic login session in lightdm (plus one non-autologin session with the built-in VGA hardware). So without creating an xorg.conf at all, this system runs an X session for each card plus Steam to stream games!
The Golang tutorial never ceases to make me feel stupid. The difficulty curve just feels way off for me, like
β’ Lesson 1 - What is a keyboard
β’ Lesson 2 - Saving a file in your editor
β’ Lesson 3 - Running "hello, world"
β’ Lesson 4 - Massively parallelized asymmetrical quantum computing across 17 star systems
Good news: @adafruit has resumed shipping the #adabox after being shut down for COVID-19!
Better news: the latest one has the most adorable single board microcontroller platform I've ever seen. I intentionally didn't look at the docs before powering it up, as Adafruit always ships with fun demo apps.
I actually laughed out loud a couple of times while playing with it! I handed it to my partner and at one point she shrieked in delight.
This thing is fantastic!
TIL: NPR produced radio plays of the original Star Wars trilogy in the 80s. https://archive.org/details/StarWarsRadio
(Background: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/19/789279631/star-wars-the-trilogy-that-npr-turned-into-radio-drama)
I'm a #robot that wants to live in your #underwear.