What dit you use your Pandora/Pyra today/the last few days


As Askarus is now helping full time building Pyrae, and the efforts to mature the OS are now ongoing, i did decide to take my Pyra back in Pocket Carry yesterday,
i did update some my Dreamcast Library on the Pyra whit 3 Games, did copy over the DS Folder from the Anbernic SP, but sadly locked the Micro SD Card from the Anbernic some how so this card did not work now on the Anbernic .. ;( I have to figure out how to unlock them again, allthough i think i will now Use the Pyra anway again.. its got the Advantage that you have Nubs

So i did test a few Games in Garden, plays quite nice on the Pyra, only the Shoulderbuttons are quite hard to press..

Speaking of Shoulderbuttons: i did also found some Button Configuration on Drastic that might work in Mario Kart ..

The Rest of the Eevening, i recharged the Pyra, and now i have it in my Pants Pocket...

I will test on the Weekend how long it will take to Boot it to the Games Compare to the Anbernic SP, and i will make an Video ..

So now im Back on Pyra ^^
 
Its a Micro SD Card, in an Adapter, none of them got an Copy Protection Slider, i had this a few times bevor whit my other Linux PC, but mostly whit the Pyra which is quite Anoying .. i can remember you can open them again when you are Super User, but i cant remember if i have to unlock every single Folder then ..

Anyway: If i want to use the SP again i can allways make an Fresh Micro SD Card, its better than have the whole System Screwed up..

Reminds me that i want also to have the Free Homebrew Roms from the Anbernic SP Card that was prepared from EvilDragon on the Pyra
 
the sd was probably not cleanly unmounted so it's suspected corrupt therefor read-only to not corrupt further.

one fix would be open gparted, select your ro partition, right click -> unmount, then right click -> check. then re-insert the card and voila. should work again.
 
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I wanted to try the tip whit gparted but unfortunately I’m now at an famous fast food restaurant and I only have the Pyra whit me but not the Anbernic SP ^^
 
What have I been using the Pyra for lately? Lately I've re-flashed it (Debian 12, Bookworm), and playing with Fluent-Bit and Lua (from the official repo's and recompiling them myself as well). The old Debian made me change /etc/apt/sources.list to point to archive.debian.org

Conclusions: Most ARM stuff is targeted for VFPv3 (Cortex A8) instead of VFPv4 (Cortex A15), but there is not much speed difference (none that I could measure). The noticeable speed is when things get recompiled with -O3 (full optimizations, however, they say that if there are bugs in your software, the O3 makes your software crash faster, so most programs I encountered just use O2). Stripping and UPX'ing the binaries also makes them start faster.

I also mapped ZIM (Wiki) to a hotkey, and I've installed the graphviz to have Diagrams and Ditaa for Ascii graphs. The scrolling is smooth enough even with a little bigger images.

I've been working on my Pyra, and also from my Pyra, using sshfs I mount the development directory, and just use the big screen to run and edit the code. (unfortunately, the HDMI does not work all too well and also crashed the Pyra OS, so I could not work directly on it with a KVM). I bought those magnifying glasses for older people (sic), those work quite well to have a little bigger screen.

I've been playing around with the keymappings and compose (on the space key) is quite nice to see many new characters, so I wish that it could take less keystrokes, like redefining "A" to also print the inverted questionmark, like so:

Bash:
xmodmap -e "keycode  38 = a A question questiondown"
xmodmap -e "keycode  65 = space Multi_key Multi_key"


Unfortunately, the "xmodmap -pm" is a mess (and needs some tinkering, but I have a modified image, so I can't complain) and I need to dive deeper into it. (probably will remap left shift as Super_L and map them to that)

I installed entr. This is a small program to the inotify system. it allows to wait for a file(s) change, and then run something. I use it to code in pluma and then save the program and it automatically runs. There is a weird bug where it sometimes does not get triggered maybe it doesn't like f2fs filesystem?


Bash:
#!/bin/bash
#set -x
WN=$1
if [ -z "$WN" ];then
    echo "Make a script run as soon as it is saved/changed (uses entr)"
    echo "Usage: $0 <executable> [parameters]"
    echo "       $0 -w <watch_for_this_file> <run_this_other_thing> [parameters]"
    exit 1
fi

if [ x"$WN" == x"-w" ];then
    shift
    WN=$1
    shift
    FN=$1
else
    FN=$WN
fi

ls $WN |entr $@

# apt-get install entr
# entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change
 

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