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Anybody remember ZIF hard drives? I was looking at that Dell D430 and couldnt find the hard drive, knew it had one. I was looking for standard 2.5inch drive. ZIF drives were smaller. Finally watched some video on replacing the hard drive on a D430 and dang its a ZIF.. ZIF is a mini variant of PATA. ...

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Who knew, they made chromebooks with i3 and i5 processors. Though at least the earlier ones still had soldered RAM and fixed eMMC. And an insane price new for what they were. Some now EOL and actually pretty reasonable. As long as there is a mrchromebox bios for them.

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I would be very cautious with cheap aftermarket batteries. Best to keep a fire extinguisher handy. Some apparently had NEW computer with NEW battery get mighty warm. I think its just more likely on cheapo, cause you know if they can only afford 16GB or 32GB eMMC, they sure didnt go all out to sourc...

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Hmm, guess price of batteries for that first generation Stream has come down, used to be $40 to $50 which was nuts. Just looked, the one for the 13inch is now $15 and the one for the 11.6inch is $25.... Hmm, you know never thought, wonder what best way to dispose of the old battery, does anybody rec...

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@mouldy Interesting video, many of these innovating hacks are done in countries that don't have the abundance of tech that we have in this county. They find ways to refurb and repurpose what's available. Thanks wizard Yep, necessity is mother of invention, I grew up on small farm in very different ...

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I am getting more into this than I intended. But yea the little Dell with BookwormPup is quite nice. Seriously using an nvme ssd really makes it usable. However I revisited a video I had seen of somebody doing this to one of those first generation HP Stream 13. The ones with 2GB RAM and the "BI...

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@mouldy $12 shipped And I thought my Lenovo for $15 (local pickup) was a bargain. Do you have a link to the adapter you used? Thanks wizard Ok, the forum software is preventing me posting a link, will private message it. Ok cant even PM the link???? So think I got it emailed. Same adapter sold by s...

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@mouldy Your Dell 3120 shows it has a Intel N2840 dual core. Passmark v9=970. It's about on par with my Lenovo 100s-ibr that has the Intel N3050 dual core. Passmark v9=874. Mine is adequate, but maxes out quickly on internet video streams. Should be fun though. My easiest Linux installs on Chromebo...

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Ok, added BookwormPup to the NVMe. Puppy is quite happy here. Interesting. This is chromebook celeron "Candy" board. Old slow and not well supported. Just used for couple models of chromebook apparently. However there are windows 10 drivers for it, that dont work in win11. So no sound or t...

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Playing some more with the NVMe. Installed winXlite "micro11" and cinnamon MINT. Both more responsive than you would expect. More so than on the internal eMMC or external usb SSD.

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Ok, must been little bored. I installed VOID linux on the new SSD. Yea even though the ssd is bit limited in speed due to using the wifi socket, its faster than the eMMC. VOID responded quite nicely. Suppose I should installed Ubuntu or something bit more of a challenge for the former chromebook.

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This isnt a chromebook/cloudbook, but it shows the principle of the thing and this guy takes his time, no rush-rush like some of the videos. And you see how tight space can be. Amazingly the bios in this series computers had no problem seeing and booting from SSD installed this way. No rEFInd neede...

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Thats great, I hadnt tried Mike Walsh's portable WINE 9.3, so I learned something too from your success.

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This is the SSE4.2 instructions, the same requirement 64bit android has. I ran into this with Waydroid (and PrimeOS, BlissOS and Android x86). But seriously if you have older hardware that currently you forced win11 onto, use 23H2 when its absolutely necessary to use windows, its not like lot of win...

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ok, look in the Debian Dog forum. I got Waydroid working on BookwormDog with systemd and posted recipe for doing this. Last in series desktop images I posted shows Kindle for Android running. So there you go if you want latest version Kindle app running on one of the Puppy extended family. Fred foun...

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Like I said the msix is some goofy new windows thing. Unarchive it, copy the files and folders to a new directory. Now dig down, lets see \VFS\ProgramFilesX64\FBReader.org%20Limited\FBReader\FBReader.exe\ Then with WINE installed double click on FBReader.exe. It will immediately open FBReader if eve...

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@mouldy Thanks again. Agree with what you say -- posts crossed..... I'd like to try the Win version on Wine. Which one did you use? The version I downloaded was a Microsoft .msix file. Not sure how to in install that in Wine.... I used the windows "stable 2.0.5" version fbreader and I thi...

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Ereaders kinda thing with me so no problem and yes I understand having a favorite. Not trying to talk you out of it. I know you dont want to change puppies. Bigpup somewhere got Anbox working in Fossapup if I remember. So you might search for that thread and read through it. If you look down in the ...

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MPXY found a newer version in an appimage. try it, might be close to what you are looking for. But it isnt 2.0. I downloaded the windows version 2.x. Double click and it installs and opens on "micro11". Great... But will it work in WINE. My newest WINE is on a MINT 21.3 (or whatever it is)...

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There are several linux epub readers. Though one might look at Calibre, you can call the reader portion of it without opening the whole app. Its really clumsy if you just want to read a book and whole app opens, but you can use just the reader part of it and its very configurable. Its probably the b...

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Just a long time Puppy user here from when Puppy was in alpha (<1.0) and nowhere near usable for daily driver. But yea I rather agree with Bigpup, having old versions of Puppy as what is offered on Distrowatch and in searches with unupdated welcome wiki not going to attract anybody to investigate fu...

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Yea small is nice but worrying about a cd when a blank dvd usually cheaper (supply and demand) isnt very pertinent. The only practical need for ultra small iso is for people with either a very slow connection or very limited data. Hard to believe but last I looked there are still 1million dialup cus...

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Yep, trying to install anything but Puppy-like system (or live installer) to flashdrive not great results. Windows would thrash one I think And my experiments show even full install linux is pretty slow. I got sidetracked thinking about all this. Not sure GRUB could do it, but perhaps CLOVER. I ran ...

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Ventoy can do this also. This link shows three methods the first, win2usb is restricted in free version, then rufus, then ventoy. I have never tried the ventoy method. There may also be some older version win2usb floating around, they didnt used to restrict the free version that much. And you could ...

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Used Rufus 3.20 to create a standard install USB = OK, no errrors Booted X-Lite USB and installed to hdd, no errors System fails to boot after install. I think I see your problem, you need to use Rufus to directly create a "windows to go" on the usb drive you want to boot. There is an opt...

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Oh something that became apparent tracking down Wizard's problem with Rufus creating "windows to go". Rufus obviously uses some files from the windows install its running on. But it creates its own unique bootloader variation. One that neither "windows repair" nor Rufus can repai...

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Windows 10 loses support in 2025 so not far down the road. I rarely use it except to run yearly tax software. Again this year tried tax software in WINE. It installs, it runs, the fonts even look nice. BUT it wont let me enter activation code and it wont update. So thinking, three years away, what ...

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LOL, been booting the MBR windows-to-go on some old computers. Using it right now on an old AMD E350. These were slow. But its not horrible-horrible. I am typing this with no lag. Booting takes a bit and that wonky old bios half way supports UEFI. I couldnt boot the GPT version, but if I force it to...

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Yea they used to make excellent mice and keyboards when done in USA, but not so great on operating systems.

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