It's a small world.....

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It's a small world.....

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@BarryK :-

As the title says; it's a small world.

I'll just add here - before I go any further - that over my decade with Puppy, I've only really read a handful or so of your blog articles, and most of those were during my early years. I haven't read any of your stuff about EasyOS.

In addition to moderating here, and also over at BleepingComputer, I also belong to the Linux.org forum. I'm a regular visitor & contributor there, too, and earlier on today somebody mentioned something called the Yocto Project in their "DevOps" section. Well, it was such an unusual name that it piqued my interest, so I did a wee bit of DuckDuckGo-fu and had a look at the website.

I took a look at the list of releases in the left pane.....and I immediately thought to myself, "Hang about; I recognise some of these names!" I did, too; Dunfell.....Kirkstone.....Scarthgap, etc. Via a totally roundabout route, I'd quite by accident discovered the source of your inspiration for EasyOS. That and OpenEmbedded, I guess.

But then I got reading further, and recognised more names.......and after a few moments, realised WHY they all sounded so familiar. Honister....Langdale.....Gatesgarth.....and especially Hardknott!

They're all names of mountain peaks and passes in the Cumbrian Lake District, here in the northwest of the UK. I know Hardknott VERY well.....

You'll find most of the names on this map of the various mountain passes in the Lake District National Park:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... ,towns.svg

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As a youngster in the early to mid-80s, I was a biker, before turning to four wheels a few years later. I took a couple of trips up to the Lake District from where I live in East Anglia. It's a beautiful part of the UK, and if I'd had the chance of employment I would have moved up there like a flash.

That first time, it rained non-stop, all week long.....with the exception of the Thursday. I wasn't letting that stop me, though; sight-seeing I'd gone up there for, and by golly, sight-seeing was what I was going to do. So it was on with the Barbours each morning, and off I went.

The Thursday dawned bright, clear & cool. I got up fairly early that morning, as I had a full itinerary planned. From my base in Kendal, I intended to visit Coniston Water first - the sheer-sided lake where Sir Malcolm Campbell broke at least two world water speed records - after which I wanted to visit Eskdale and take in the Stanley Ghyll waterfall on the way. And the most direct route from Coniston to Eskdale means heading up the Eskdale-Duddon road, along the edge of Harter Fell and up over the infamous Hardknott pass.

This road will test out ANY combustion-engined vehicle. It's officially one of the two steepest roads in the UK, with an average gradient of 1 in 3 (along with multiple back-to-back reverse double hairpins!).....sharing that 'title' with the Rosedale Chimney Bank (known by local cyclists as the "Chain Breaker") up on the North Yorkshire moors. The head of the pass is almost 1300 feet above sea-level, and is shrouded in medium to thick cloud for a good part of the year.

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Warning signs at the base of Hardknott...!

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It's a weird experience, traversing Hardknott. It was brilliant sunshine at the bottom, but by the time I was not quite two-thirds of the way up I was entering the base of the cloud layer. So, it was back on with the Barbours again! The next mile and a half was solid, heavy drizzle, along with very limited visibility; rather like riding through a real London "pea-souper". I eventually attained the summit of Hardknott, and headed down into Eskdale. Another mile and a half passed, and before long I could see the "fog" of cloud and drizzle clearing.....and less than two hundred yards further on, I was out of the base of the cloud cover and back into brilliant sunshine once more.....

Rode another mile or two to let the Barbours dry out again, and then they were off. And remained off for the rest of that day, as it happened.

It's the kind of experience that you don't forget in a hurry..! :D

Like I said, I'd have loved to move up there permanently, although one thing most of the locals agreed upon; permanent residency, allied to heavy winter snowfalls, steep roads and more-or-less year round rain in varying degrees meant a definite reliance on four-wheel drive. Most of the ordinary 2-wheel drive vehicles you saw up there nearly always belonged to tourists; locals predominantly used Land Rovers, Toyota Land Cruisers and RAV 4s along with a smattering of American Jeeps, and big Ford and Chevy 4-wheel drive pickups. Without them, very few would have been able to get around.

Mike. ;)

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Thanks for the reminiscing and info about those OpenEmbedded/Yocto names.

I also like to get out and about in the countryside.
Have a look at my blog "light" category; I'm modifying a recumbent trike, with the intention of going touring:

https://bkhome.org/news/tag_light.html

...a recumbent tadpole trike is great for older people. But not on hills, unless have electric assist.

This is what originally inspired me to buy a recumbent trike:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/ ... /101995930

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What a great photo:

trike-outback.jpg
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Got it from here:
https://azub.eu/crossing-the-australian ... nt-trikes/

Ha ha, this should really be in the Off Topic section!

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BarryK wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:54 am

What a great photo:

trike-outback.jpg

Australia has to be the one country in the world that is most suited to existing in a solar powered environment - yet we see recently that a nuclear powered future beckons instead of the current coal power usage (at least according to Peter Dutton).

In my view the last two decades of "green" thinking (deposing and despising CO2 generation) has been deliberately targeted at driving us all towards acceptance of nuclear generation (as a "green" fuel).

Would love to cross the Nullabor on a solar powered vehicle. (And would love to see Maralinga up close)

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BarryK wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:02 am

I also like to get out and about in the countryside.
Have a look at my blog "light" category; I'm modifying a recumbent trike, with the intention of going touring:

https://bkhome.org/news/tag_light.html

Interesting article. :thumbup2:

BarryK wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:02 am

...a recumbent tadpole trike is great for older people. But not on hills, unless have electric assist.

This is what originally inspired me to buy a recumbent trike:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/ ... /101995930

Almost great for old people.
There's no way I'd even be able to get down that low to the ground to get on the trike and if I was able to I'd have hell getting back up again. :lol:

I'm a bicycle rider although nothing fancy just plain bicycle riding.

In the city where I live there are bicycle routes everywhere and where they don't go the city transportation buses do and the buses have a bicycle rack on them to carry your bicycle with you.

I've considered getting an e-bike but just can't afford it as the one I would get is around $2100.00 US dollars.

OH well maybe one day right. ;)

I have a real nice 1984 Schwinn Mesa Runner 10 speed hard frame mountain bike which I converted to allow me to sit upright instead of leaning over forward.

Anyway it's a nice bike and it allows me to go where I want since I don't own a car plus I'm doing my part to not pollute the planet which is a good thing.

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Lobster here,

Not posting from EasyOS but I have been installing it. First on a 4gb USB Key drive and this morning on a 8gb key drive. My Bionic Puppy was gradually deteriorating and I upgraded to what I hoped would be a home server but has ended up as a desktop running GNU-Debian long term release.

So I can bypass my password hampered Manjaro Linux and run 6.1 of EasyOS. Which I feel is very familiar from my Puppy days. I particulary valued the GUI front end to 'dd' for writing the img file..

Things I have been doing of late in this small world of Penguins and Puppys:

1. Looking after aged relative
2. Focussing on my Buddhist practice
3. Using federated social media https://fedia.social/ :mrgreen:
4. Creating short podcasts, mainly on meditation https://audio.com/lobster/
5. Was interested in the solar bike Barry is using. I had a battery powered bike from China and was able to get into central London and back out to the suburbs... Gave it and another bike away on Freecycle

A hi from me. Woof woof!

Anyway not likely to spend much time on the forum as I used to. I think I am still a moderator (supposedly) on one or two threads here and I still use my internet name and Puppy avatar from when I was official cructacean :thumbup2:

I would be here more often but my TARDIS type tmxxine is undergoing major regeneration.
https://tmxxine.tumblr.com/

Just tried getting into the wiki BUT could I edit? [clue NO!]. Some new fangled template heading requirement had me totally bamboozled, bothered and barbecued. :oops:

... tried again "Authentication failed: CSRFToken mismatch" logged in as CrustyLobster but trying to edit the Lobster page. Well that is enough attempted kennel improvements for now

I have developed some cats ears to go with my claws...

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lobster wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2024 4:14 pm

Lobster here,

You really should come back to the forum more often... :)

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I think one visit every couple of years is plenty. :mrgreen:

I have been using and swearing at Apple ipad Pro and Iphone for their attempts to lock me into their methodology.

Been distrohopping...
Ubuntu, Debian and Manjaro mostly BUT practically never use Windows. My local library uses it, so have to use it and swear at its faltering. The 'public' library is run by a private company. :shock: Yuk! I managed to get a library card without a photo ID. Soon they will require a DNA chip or some such.

I am very intolerant of bugs in code, facilities and the extreme commercialisation of the cloud, the west and life in general. :shock:

Unofficial Cructacean :D

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Using EasyOS, :thumbup2: updated it yesterday with the built in updater, which worked well. Using it now on a laptop.

I have a new website https://mettaray.com and will add a link to EasyOS soon.

Still using GNU-Debian as my main OS and am now on
https://infosec.exchange/deck/@lobster part of federated social media, such as Mastodon

Unofficial Cructacean :D

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