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In this episode Marcus / mnw walks you through the install and
initial configuration of a shell history replacement called Atuin.
My first show I'm quite nervous!
Config Options
These are the settings suggested to change in the config file
~/.config/atuin/config.toml
auto_sync = true

style = "compact"

inline_height = 10

enter_accept = false
Trouble Shooting
Is my postgresql working ?
psql -d "postgres://atuin:ak4hTNms5Y@127.0.0.1:5432/atuin" -c "select now()"
Is my service running?
service atuin status
Syncing
On the first host you register on you want to grab your key.
atuin key
Then login and use that key on the other clients with
atuin login -u username -k "the word soup from the atuin key command"
Links

Project - https://atuin.sh
Server Guide - https://forum.atuin.sh/t/guide-how-to-setup-an-atuin-server/198
Socials and about me - https://mnw.sdf.org

Continuing his series talking about some of his Raspberry Pi projects, TuxJam co-host Kevie talks about his recent experience with the Picade Console from Pimoroni.

It is obvious to most people that we need to stop burning fossil
fuels to prevent even worse global climate change. Options like solar
panels and windmills are options for providing clean renewable
electricity, but since so much of our fossil fuel use is for
transportation, we need to make strides in improving batteries and
charging. Fortunately there have been some very positive developments
that will show up within just a few years
Links

https://fortune.com/2023/11/23/us-electric-vehicle-sales-2023-record/
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45942785/toyota-future-ev-battery-plans/
https://global.honda/en/tech/All-solid-state_battery_technology/
https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2024/01/solid-state-battery-design-charges-minutes-lasts-thousands-cycles
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398896-what-are-solid-state-batteries-and-why-do-we-need-them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_battery
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/21/breakthrough-battery-from-sweden-may-cut-dependency-on-china
https://www.palain.com/battery-and-charging-technology-20240128/

Linux Lugcast - https://linuxlugcast.com/
Hacker Public Radio - https://hackerpublicradio.org/
Reichsmark - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark
7-11 convenience store - https://www.7-eleven.com/
7-11 pizza - https://www.7-eleven.com/products/pizza
Peanut butter sandwich - https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/pb-and-yay-
Cereal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breakfast_cereals

Medicaid - https://www.medicaid.gov/
Raspberry Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.com/
MX Linux - https://mxlinux.org/
MX Linux Pi OS Respin - https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-1-raspberry-pi-os-respin/
Raspberry Pi OS - https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Chromium Browser - https://www.chromium.org/chromium-projects/
Firefox Browser - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Raspberry Pi 400 - https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
How Many Open Browser Tabs Is Too Many Open Browser Tabs? - https://lifehacker.com/does-having-too-many-tabs-open-really-slow-down-your-br-1848554140
HDMI - https://www.lifewire.com/hdmi-facts-high-definition-multimedia-interface-1847337
VGA - https://www.howtogeek.com/821620/what-is-vga/
RCA Connectors - https://www.cablethis.com/demystifying-rca-connectors-how-they-impact-your-audio-quality/
Composite Video - https://www.lifewire.com/composite-video-the-basics-1846869
CDC Pascal - https://standardpascal.org/CDC6000pascal.html

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/stanford-pubs/catalog/sz874xb6118

Xerox - https://www.xerox.com/en-us
IBM - https://www.ibm.com/us-en
Thailand Death Train - https://www.bordersofadventure.com/death-railway-kanchanaburi-thailand/

https://www.thaitrainguide.com/death-railway/

West Virginia - https://www.wv.gov/Pages/de

This show is about gaming, more specifically gaming on Linux. This
episodes is about Factorio, a survival strategy game focusing on
automation. I currently don't have show notes to go with this show.

In two earlier episodes I have been talking about digiKam photo
management software. I hope to come back to that topic in another
episode in the future. But not today.
Today I will talk about what happened to me about two weeks ago.
Maybe it was because I had used the hibernate state, which I rarely use,
that caused my laptop to behave somewhat strange. So I decided to turn
it off. It was my Lenovo Thinkpad T460p laptop, running Linux Mint
Debian Edition.
So I turned it off the normal way with the soft button inside the
operating system. But instead of power off I was shown a full terminal
screen with a lot of text what it was doing. But it never came to the
conclusion to turn off.
I have learned that in those situations, although tempting, that on
Linux I should not force turn off with the physical mechanical power
button. I have tried that before on another Linux laptop, and it was not
a success, rather the opposite.
What I should do with Linux is to talk with electrodes directly to
the central brain, or in other words, call the Linux kernel with help of
a system request and by that sidestep the operating system.
A System Request is done with the SysRq key on the keyboard. In this
situation I did the reisub key sequence with a system request:
If I hold the System Request key together with the Alternate Alt key,
and when still holding them down, I type the letters r, e, i, s, u and
b, one by one in a very slow pace, I take seconds between them. Then I
release all keys and the machine reboots.
This was very successful for me and the laptop has since then worked
as normal.
I use an external full size keyboard that has a System Request
key.
But not all laptops has such a key any more. System Request can be
reached also on all or most of those laptops with some key combination.
But that key combination varies between manufacturers and models.
In the show notes I add a link to a How to geek article about reisub
as well as to Wikipedia about System Request:

How-To Geek: Cleanly
Restarting Your System. Use the Magic SysRq Key on Linux to Fix Frozen X
Servers, Cleanly Reboot, and Run Other Low-Level Commands
Wikipedia: Magic SysRq
key