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you like wet?!

agreed.

eggcellent. great find!

still a very nice board, I believe you can still interact with them using QMK and apps like VIA?

looks like a keychron q series? very solid boards, have a lovely heft to them. presently using a Q3 + Q0 combo with custom switches and keycaps - having a lovely time with them so far 😊

you call that a cat?

pulls out spoon

this is a cat.

lmk how you get on. I may just ask keychron directly given the highly likely event that the pup fucks my one up as well.

No need to explain - I’m a regular desk snacker / coffee drinker 😊😊

I use the B1 specifically to manage several (sometimes headless) atx systems, it’s a neat little keebyweeby.

Have you tried emailing keychron to see if they can sort you a new cover?

neat! the included cover tipped me off 😅

Is that a keychron b1?

hah, sound like my time there back in 2018

i haven’t really had stability issues with kodi/jellyfin, rasbian/Ubuntu, retropi etc. I appreciate where you’re coming from but it’s kind of a knockabout device to help me learn more about apps I would like to host on a proper server later on.

generally am not happy with my pi5 as a hw offering, even as far as cheap arm based SBCs go.

The SD card didn’t abruptly die or anything like that, NCP kind of ground to a halt following automatic maintenance. I couldn’t get it to cooperate, so I just decided to take it offline.

didn’t have anything important on there, was just using it as a test.

That said, I have heard of particularly problematic SD card models that are known to fail with the pi5.

Totally understandable. For whatever it’s worth, you can permanently disable and remove snap and snapd from an Ubuntu system (I had to do this recently with a raspberry pi 5). The amount of work to do this, however, may be practically equivalent to installing plasma on mint / lmde, but the guides on this are thankfully straightforward in case you’re ever interested.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

This works well in practice, and upgrades still work as intended. I may need to follow this guide again very soon, as nextcloud pi unexpectedly died on me. I’m thinking of flashing either Ubuntu or trying their Debian fork out again.

I’d have thought cinnamon was a key draw for mint and lmde given it’s overall familiarity with windows / user friendliness? Would kubuntu or the fedora KDE spin work here?

this is a true success story and I love to see it.

such a dynamic duo! 😊

they’re so expressive 🥰

the slight lean on the black cat definitely says “oi, what you doing”

lmao this is great

gonna listen to some metalface rn

thank you for sharing all of these