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This is still my favorite wallpaper of all time.

I belive it was @doze who created it along with a ton of other beautiful wallpapers, banners and other Hive related graphics. When he first released it I saw it on my phone and fell in love with it. The colors are so very appealing to me and just catches my eye and reminds me that Hive is the center peice of technology that is going to bring Web 3.0 into fruition.

My content creators work station.

The way the logo is centered and seems to be the nucleous of a star. Then when you look closely you can see other stars in the distance. Many are connected by conduits that seem to be racing towards the big star in the center containing Hive.

I'm guessing you can see where I got my "Web 3.0 = Universe" analogy, lol. Yep, it was inspired by a wallpaper. Which, by the way, he made a version of it for mobile just because I asked. Yes, he, like many other people here on Hive are very much "real" people. Who approachable, intelligent, kind and thankful for having a place where you dont have to constantly look over your shoulder to make sure somebody isn't sneaking up on you with the ban hammer.

The mobile version

My addiction to distro hopping is so distracting!

One of the things I've always loved about Linux is the ability to just chang distros on a whim. I had seen that one of my favorites from about a year ago, InstantOS had released a new version and after living in Debian/Ubuntu land for a year I thought I should revisit InstantOS again. It's a very good little stable distro based on Arch.I used to have it on all of my machines. Including an old Acer C300 Chromebook. Before you start asking I''ve reflashed that bios and it is now just a standard baytrail i5 processor with 4gb of ram and a 16gb emmc. So it's not a beast by any stretch. No storage unless you get a big sd card. I use 128gb and it works great as /home. Root is on the 16gb emmc. But it does fly along pretty good with InstantOS and I love it as having it for something to play with.

But here was my problem with it this time.

I have a new dauly driver. I picked up a Thinkpad T440 that was refurbrished with the full 1920x1080 hidpi screen, upgraded to i7, ram is maxed out at 12gb and a 230gb ssd. Needless to say this is the fastest, most beatiful looking computer I've ever owned. The last one I bought "new" was what turned into Frankenputer. Which, by the way, is still humming along and powering the monitor on the right side of the studio pic. You cant see it in that pic but it is off screen to the right of me. It'sgot no screen on it but it's powering my IPFS node and the 3Speak desktop app. Plus it is handeling the mixing and recording of my podcasts. And for a 9 yr old peice of plastic it is still pounding the the proverbial pavement.

The other Dell laptop with an external monitor (tv) thats on the stand is an i3 older than Frankenputer and it just plays music and is where I keep an eye on discord chat and visiting sites during the show. The Thinkpad is front and center.

I digress. My problem with InstanOS this time was that for some reason it wasnt seeing the resolution of that tv correctly. It used to. Didnt have a problem with it at all. But now I can get xrandr to keep the right resolution after reboots or log outs.

As you could imagine it ran stupid fast on the Thinkpad. Often times commands were completed before I could take my finger off a key. But I still ran into a problem with it. Pipewire.

What is Pipewire? It's going to be the replacement of PulseAudio on Linux. Which in of itself is fricking cool! I love inovation and the forward march of technology always ends up being something awesome. But we are at a point with it that it's good enough to make it default on distros and yes, it does just work. But not for professional audio production. There are some that are able to figure it out and are using for pro audio production already. But HOW???

There is literally no documentation on how to accomplish this with Pipewire. I would love to use it. But I cant suspend all my work for two weeks to sit and play with stuff. I'm already behind just by switching distros and discovering that they default audio backend was changed to something that was undocumented and requires the user to play with it to learn how to use it.

So I said svrew it and went back to the trusty old AVLinux MX Edition. It sports the XFCE desktop with Openbox window manager. Sure it's kind boring looking but at least I dont have to fight the distro to do I what I want.

I'm getting ready to record a couple of podcasts. An episode or two of Decentracast, the tird episode of NTROradio plus I have to post the second episode that is already recorded but I held back because of dealing with the impromptu ditrohop.

Guess I better get to work and quit typing.

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