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  1. docbroke

    Raspberry Pi OS Accused of 'Phoning Home' To Microsoft

    After reading your comment I did update on my raspios, this is what I have now ┌─[pi] (08:21 AM)-(Sun Feb 07) !976! [~] └───▶ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ raspi.list vscode.list ┌─[pi] (08:21 AM)-(Sun Feb 07) !976! [~] └───▶ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list ### THIS FILE IS...
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    OpenGL and DirectX through Vulkan?

    or roof tile shaders
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    Is anyone using i3 on their Pyra?

    Maybe for tiling, but i3 can also do tabbing and stacking.
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    Is anyone using i3 on their Pyra?

    Something wrong with libxft ?
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    Is anyone using i3 on their Pyra?

    Have looked into the config files / manuals of dmenu,sxiv etc., , may be you can try changing fonts used by dmenu or try alternative (rofi/bemenu etc.) 1611977576 You can try running dmenu/sxiv from terminal to see they have and error output.
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    The What Music Are You Listening To Thread

    Chandralekha, Niti Mohan and A R Rahman
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    My first impressions of the Pyra

    Pyra slipped through the night while everyone was confused.
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    What have you bought recently?

    This Just received today, and out of the box they are excellent. Sound quality is better compared to my FiiO FH1.
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    Basic Linux Questions for New Pyra Owners and Others

    You probably need IME ( try ibus or scim or fcitx or uim). Look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Input_method for more details.
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    Basic Linux Questions for New Pyra Owners and Others

    What I have seen is every application is different. As a sane default, applications shall not create config files in $HOME, to avoid overwriting existing config files ( at least in arch). For example, applications like mpv, ncmpc, ncmpcpp,vimb, qutebrowser don't create config file in $HOME, you...
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    We may start a new thread in off topic section. Here you go https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/basic-linux-questions-for-new-pyra-owners-and-others.99321/
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    Basic Linux Questions for New Pyra Owners and Others

    As a followup of this https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/first-information-for-new-pyra-owners-faq.99302/page-7 This thread is mainly designed to help new pyra owners to start learning basics of linux. Everyone is welcome to ask and reply as long as we focus on the title of this thread...
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    Yes backports is one option, you may also consider debian testing repos, or try mint or ubuntu using kernel 5.4 ( mint is based on ubuntu). I must note that I haven't used debian extensively, I prefer arch on my personal computers, but recommend debian to others for it's comparative user...
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    My first impressions of the Pyra

    modem shall appear under device tree at /dev/ttyACM0 and /dev/ttyACM1 or something like that. If it is not there, that may be issue with loading of modem driver or power supply or something like that. If there is /dev/ttyACM0, you shall be able to talk with the modem using modemmanager or...
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    I am settled on archlinux for my personal computer and debian on family computer. The reason is a lesson I learned that, it is best to stick to a distribution with good wiki and community. There are many good modern distributions with nice ideas like alpine/void/gobo etc., but the problem is...
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    Yes, many programs just use it's own dot-file or dot-directory in $HOME and that makes your $HOME cluttered and taking backups becomes difficult. Based on suggestion in this very forum I am now using stow to keep all my important dotfiles in $HOME/dotfiles directory with actual .config or .vim...
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    My first impressions of the Pyra

    Working bluetooth out of the box is good. I have faced trouble getting bluetooth to work in some of my laptops. This is really good considering pyra has trouble with audio.
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    I agree that linux may be intimidating for newcomers but it is much better compared to windows or mac. Let me try to answer some of this. 1. Linux Filesystem: This may be a surprise for a windows users but in linux everything is a file under "/" . So / is the root of entire filesystem if...
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    First information for new Pyra owners (FAQ)

    I think it will be easier to have /home on sdcard. Once eMMC is flashed only /etc/fstab will need to modified. That way user data will be safe even if eMMC fails, and with sdcard being removable it will be easy to keep backup of /home partition.
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