Completing the Move…

Error Fetching
PiClock couldn’t fetch weather data

Finally, 146 uninterrupted days of solid uptime, I’ve switched the site from the Pi 5 over to a Lenovo Tiny PC. Upcoming post about my new setup, involving NGINX and Alpine. I’ve been an Apache HTTPD user since 2005, but the times they are-a changing… and I think I’ve got some interesting goodies to share. Stay tuned.

In the meanwhile, if some things don’t work or are partially missing, it is because changing servers is like pulling teeth… you kind of just need to yank and get it over with.

Feel free to report via the “Forum” with bugs… I had to botch up the server stats to get it working on Alpine/NGINX because several things were a bit different. It is half done… behold, the incredibly low memory footprint of the new setup! Just 70MB!

That picture is of the PiFrame, Pi Zero 2 powered clock… it uses scripts running on my webserver — which I’d forgotten to port over to the new VM!!

Anyways, coming soon is a write up about moving to NGINX/Alpine, and the new “Big Digits” code for the PiFrame, see the picture?

Browser Crashing X.Org — Not on Alpine!

Alpine Linux
Wanted to make a note of clarifying a post I made on the former weblog back on Feb 2nd: “Firefox Crashing X11”

In that post, I explain that my T400 ThinkPad experiences X.org crashes on average once or twice a day. This was on both Debian 12, and FreeBSD 13. On FireFox from the main repo, FF ESR, and even on the latest FireFox which I went out of the way to get V134 set up on Debian Stable. I thought this fixed the problem, but I was wrong.

Pretty sure it has something to do with the machine’s ancient GMA 4500 (or the 915 driver) and some GL stuff which when it tries to run, X just immediately crashes.

Just wanted to say that I’ve been running Alpine Linux on the old ThinkPad, and my web experience has been rock solid. No more issues. I occasionally boot back into Debian, and still happening there but whatever. At some point I’ll do the necessary digging if the problem persists so I can properly report the bug.

But anyway, Debian is nice for old machines. Debian without systemd is quite light and nimble, indeed. But Alpine? Alpine is like an arrow and a feather, as one. HIGHLY recommended! I’ve been running it off a 16 GB SATA DOM in the ultra bay. https://alpinelinux.org

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