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I have spent a lot of time playing GB/GBA games and Advance Wars is among my favorites. I love the "hot potato" mode for playing with a friend with just one device.

Django Chat: Fall 2024 Podcast Relaunch in c/django

[–] norambna 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Relaunch? I never listened to it’s old run, anyone have thoughts on it?

Django Chat is a great podcast!

What languages/frameworks for small, very low usage apps on limited hardware? in c/programming

[–] norambna 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Python / FastAPI will be better than Java in your situation and is easy to learn. Go should be even better and is also relatively easy to learn!

radiac/nanodjango: Run Django models and views from a single file, and convert it to a full project. in c/django

[–] norambna 2 points 2 months ago

https://mastodon.cloud/@radiac/113096990972136170

Nanodjango 0.8 is out, adding async view and ASGI support. Now you can write async single file scripts that look like Flask or FastAPI, but with all #django features like models, auth, admin etc.

Can You Use Raspberry Pi 5 as a Desktop Computer? in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 7 points 5 months ago

I own two Raspberries 1, a Raspberry 4 8GB and a Raspberry 5 8GB. I wouldn't recommend the 4 as a full-fledged desktop replacement, but the 5 has been very smooth so far.

I'm currently using the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite and installed KDE on top.

Cheap, but reliable SSDs? in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 2 points 6 months ago

I was lucky then with the 4 A400 I'm still using. I also have 3 BX500 that have been very reliable.

Cheap, but reliable SSDs? in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kingston A400s and Crucial BXs have been very good as cheap SSDs in my experience.

Communication between Raspberry Pis on different networks in c/python

[–] norambna 1 points 8 months ago

A VPN would be my first choice. ZeroTier works like a charm on the RPis. I've shared even SQLite databases over Samba over Zerotier among a bunch of RPis daily for a couple of years without a hitch.

OS Recommendations for 2014 MacBook Pro in c/bsd

[–] norambna 0 points 8 months ago

I haven't used source-based distros, but I've installed Linux on a couple of older Macs. You will probably need to search for proper drivers for the Webcam and Wifi. Other than, you won't have any mayor problems.

I'm working on a distro recommendation flowchart/ list for newcomers and need your input please! (Post is not only this picture btw and is mainly text) in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 2 points 9 months ago

My own example. I still have an ancient netbook lying around. It runs on an Intel Atom N270, which is only 32bit / i386. It came with Windows XP and I quickly switched to Mint, when it was still supporting 32bit.

I think the last Ubuntu release supporting i386 was 18.04 (around 2018) and all other distros started to drop i386 support after that.

AFAIK Debian is the only major distro still fully supporting i386. And a Debian based distro that still supports i386 is MX Linux. My ancient and crappy netbook is running MX Linux right now.

My 'weird' example. I have a Raspberry 5! It's ARM and very new. It runs its own distro, Raspberry Pi OS (Debian based), and Ubuntu does also fully support it. Right now if you try some other distro, it probably won't even boot unless you start tinkering a lot with it.

So Debian is definitively a choice for very old hardware. And the odd ARM SoC has usually at least some custom Ubuntu build that runs with it.