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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 01:55:59 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Real life...
   
   Lot of maintenance to network and Internet equipment, then a certain HP laptop.
   
   I also started using Linux on my main laptop, and it's much more responsive than when it was on Windows 10. I still keep the install, because ~7 years' worth of cruft is on that install, which has gone through three laptops so far!
   
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   Routers have been upgraded from OpenWrt:
   22.03.5 -> 23.05.0
   and wireless signals have improved slightly, so has stability; no random disconnects on certain clients so far. Also, switched CPU governor from:
   schedutil -> ondemand
   and made a few tweaks to the ondemand settings... more responsive now. And... the minimum CPU frequency has been changed from 437500 to 600000 due to possible stability issues with the 2.4GHz radio and startup issues. Haven't had those myself, but it is preemptive.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 08:20:20 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Sis's HP laptop has file integrity issues, but system is fine so far. Still monitoring the situation; the drive exhibited no actual issues. Apparently AMDGPU drivers are somewhat problematic.
     
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     Main server, compile box, and CD-ripping machine are still on Ubuntu 23.04 (Server, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu respectively), main laptop and test media server are on Kubuntu 23.10.
     
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     Speaking of test media server, it is on Mom's 2018 HP laptop, runs Jellyfin, and has a few test videos scrounged up from the main NAS and my old Windows 10 install.
     
     I'm still working out the quirks on the setup before the final install, which will not run on Ubuntu or any such spin; it will be running Debian 12, which is actually unusual to me, since I specifically prefer Ubuntu/spins.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 08:27:07 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     The power supply arrived today, but it got misdelivered due to the address being one digit off. However, I got the package. 😏
     
     The mainboard and RAM were delivered a few days prior, so the only thing needed is a CPU.
     
     Power supply test:
     * basic power on with no load. Short green power-on wire to ground, and that is it. All voltages are on point.
     * basic power good test. Connect power supply to motherboard and power it on through the board. Success.
     
     No actual load test has been done, e.g. power good test but with a complete system instead of just a motherboard.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 08:38:41 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Dad's aging Core 2 Quad machine apparently does not like ancient nVidia graphics cards. Now uses an AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition just to render the desktop and other certain effects better than the onboard graphics does.
     
     Surprisingly, Windows 10 runs pretty well on that machine. Even if Windows 11 didn't restrict hardware requirements, I most definitely wouldn't install it on that system. I already almost didn't install Windows 10 on it; the machine had a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Since the changes - upgrade to fixed Q9550 and 128GB SSD -> 250GB HDD -> 256GB SSD, I finally upgraded it to Windows 10. But...
     
     This required a long EOL version of Windows 10. Basically: Windows 7 -> Windows 10 1607, Windows 10 22H2. I backed up the Windows 7 install before doing this so I had an ass-covering. It worked, though.