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Cake day: November 18th, 2021

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  • There’s a pretty cool write up by KittenLabs about their SolarCamPi project - it’s pretty involved as far as DIY projects though, even down to stripping features out of the Raspberry Pi so it would use as little power as possible..

    Awhile back I dabbled with a timelapse setup where I had a battery, GoPro and a Raspberry Pi with a 4G hat for remote monitoring - using Tailscale as the VPN - but that was never intended to run 24/7. I just set those up and accepted that they’d run for as long as they ran and then collect them.

    Lots of 4G/WiFi solar security cameras around as another sort of ‘all in one’ solution - typically the main issue is they all want you to use their app. If you can find one with rtsp or ONVIF it’s easier to make them work with whatever you want, though again you’d probably need a Raspberry Pi or something inbetween in order to create the VPN/Tailscale/WireGuard connection to keep it secure.





















  • Yeah, switched from a NVIDIA card, purged all NVIDIA packages, made sure AMD wasn’t blacklisted and then tried installing the mesa freeworld packages from RPM Fusion.

    But - I’m not sure what’s happened but I ran dnf update tonight and rebooted and now everything’s working and hardware acceleration is back on and running snappy. I got a notice that Plasma had updated to a new version, so maybe something relating to that fixed it? I could have sworn I ran updates after replacing the GPU and uninstalling the drivers.