Beginners • Re: Help understanding WiFi speeds/standards and the Pi5
5ghz = short range2.4ghz = more rangei find even the 2.4ghz to be short range for me, i'm assuming the heatsink most be interferingStatistics: Posted by kerry_s — Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:25 am
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Something is missing?
Hello everyone, Maybe I am crazy and it's never been there but shouldn't there be a button on the left of the active window? If I click over there a menu opens but there isn't an icon or anything to...
View ArticleGaming • Re: QuakeSpasm 0.96.3 - Quake Source Port
how to increase menu size, hard to read anything.how to know what 'MODNAME'?Statistics: Posted by cjan — Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:54 am
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Raspberry Pi OS • Re: Something is missing?
Code: cp /etc/xdg/labwc/rc.xml ~/.config/labwc/rc.xmlCode: mousepad ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml1. the theme pixflat does not have a icon on the left, if you for example use the adwaita theme it'll be...
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General discussion • Re: What's with the M.2/NVMe obsession?
Requires additional hardwareAn NVMe adaptor is the same cost and work as a USB enclosure and is faster. More expensive (see above)I have SSDs left over from upgrades. I do not have SD cards of that...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Pi 5 Re-install Broke Bluetooth?
I had been using a Pi 5 for watching videos and listening to music that had not been connected to the Internet (LAN only) for a while. After removing some CUPS packages, it wouldn't boot to the...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Bookworm, set main partition size at first boot to...
Ok thanks all, I took your advice with the shrink after it has expanded, which I was reluctant to do but turns out to be super easy with gparted, which is a nice user friendly gui tool I recommend....
View ArticlePython • Re: Help with my motor control code showing GPIO busy error
Try to remove the debug-flag.Code: app.run(debug=False, # try not to use debug to avoid resource usage problems host='0.0.0.0', port=5000)Statistics: Posted by ghp — Fri Jan 03, 2025 5:21 am
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Pi4 and mim0 10,1 touch monitor
So, i want to have video via HDMI if its possible. With image via USB i have some artefacts in background and the monitor is listed as VGA, not ok. In video playing i have some frame skiping, refrash...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Problem with IRLZ44n mosfet in a circuit
I think you need to test burning steel wool with a 9V DC-DC first. Does it work?https://thewonderofscience.com/phenomen ... steel-woolEveryone else is lighting a match. Question is, if it burns off...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • a pi5 where boot option B3 just goes back to the prompt
A recently created pi5 won't work with boot option B3 (GUI, require login). I enter the password, it goes black for a few seconds and then presents the login screen again. No message about incorrect...
View ArticleTeaching and learning resources • Re: Advent of Code 2024
Day 24 Crossed Wires - only part1 for now.Code: ;;; Advent of code 2024 - day24, part1 & part2, on BPI-F3 RISC-V;;; Chez code(load "utils.so")(define table (make-hashtable string-hash string=?...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • I cant access the desktop of my Pi 5 model B
I dont know what happened, I did a reboot and it brought me to the console. I tried sudo raspi-config and set the boot the auto login to desktop and it still didnt work. I dont what to do at this...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Best raspi OS version for simple 4B use case
So to get back to my original request...For a Pi 4B, can anyone suggest a recent/legacy version of Raspi OS that's free of these weird VLC issues and/or a Raspi OS that still included autohide as a...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: RP2350 availability?
As of Jan 3, there are none to be had that I can find. DigiKey, Mouser, LCSC, JLCPCB, Farnell/Newark all show either no stock or no match on RP2350 other than the Pico2.I wish they would give us a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: I cant access the desktop of my Pi 5 model B
Hard to know what you have done to get into this state. If you are sure you are setting auto login to the desktop and it doesn't work, then it is hard to know what has happened. It is unlikely that...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: Any changes around how sym link permissions work in...
I did a quick google, and the official documentation for this flag appears to reside at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt. It says this:protected_symlinks:A long-standing class of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: a pi5 where boot option B3 just goes back to the prompt
I'm guessing something is crashing silently and booting you back to the login screen. Maybe something in /var/log/lightdm.log would provide a clue? Does this happen for all users, or just one? Does it...
View ArticleGeneral • Re: Flaw in the Hacker Challenge ?
I'm not convinced it's the Hazard3 cores which are the problem, just that the glitch applied to the OTP part allows them to become enabled. I am guessing that would probably have been the case no...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: What is your experience on AI chatbot on computing...
Open source software is 'confusing' for beginners. There are many version and branches. Each work slightly/vastly differently and quickly changing over time. Not sure confusing is the right term, but...
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