Short & Sweet Dec Update
/Hi there everyone! Just checking in for this month. I still exist, believe it or not hahaha. I’m planning on working on cleaning up, corebooting and refurbishing some Thinkpads for 2022. Also plan on making a FOSS Meme PC build based around an Optiplex 9010 with a 3rd gen i7 and a low profile RX550 GPU. That’ll have a corebooted motherboard and fairly open-source-friendly components. The wifi module is all I’d have to search for…
One of the many greats
The projects that I’m actively working on are all over in the trackers page here if anyone wants to check them out. After finishing a few corebooted thinkpads and building the optiplex FOSS machine, I intend on making a Ryzen 5 desktop out of leftover parts from 2020-2021 and utilizing that for a secondary gaming machine or possibly a server host. Looking forward to seeing what fun little handhelds and mini-laptops 2022-2023 will bring us, with the upcoming AMD Rembrandt APUs using RDNA2 graphics looking to be pretty awesome.
That is all for now! Whether you celebrate or not, I wish you all a happy holiday and new year!
Here are some fun things I’ve found recently:
Wolfgang gave an absolutely awesome look at what he’s running on his home server and how he automated the setup
Elementary 6.1 bringing us some new hotness
A new silicon breakthrough from IBM may change how we think about fabricating chips
This guy is making cool “bushcraft” shelters as he adventures through nature
Nick at The Linux Experiment switched to vanilla gnome via Fedora and has been enjoying it- I love Fedora too!
Intel plans lots of fixes and updates to their iwlwifi driver in kernel 5.17
Valve is contributing a ton of work to the mesa drivers this year, and likely will going forward as well