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Version 1.5 von #DankMaterialShell gibts erfreulicherweise auch schon in #Manjaro Testing. Leider fehlt auch hier der neue #DankCalendar. Den müsste ich über das #AUR installieren. #dms #linux #niri

Version 1.5 von #DankMaterialShell gibts erfreulicherweise auch schon in #Manjaro Testing. Leider fehlt auch hier der neue #DankCalendar. Den müsste ich über das #AUR installieren. #dms #linux #niri

Version 1.5 von #DankMaterialShell gibts erfreulicherweise auch schon in #Manjaro Testing. Leider fehlt auch hier der neue #DankCalendar. Den müsste ich über das #AUR installieren. #dms #linux #niri

Version 1.5 von #DankMaterialShell gibts erfreulicherweise auch schon in #Manjaro Testing. Leider fehlt auch hier der neue #DankCalendar. Den müsste ich über das #AUR installieren. #dms #linux #niri

Version 1.5 von #DankMaterialShell gibts erfreulicherweise auch schon in #Manjaro Testing. Leider fehlt auch hier der neue #DankCalendar. Den müsste ich über das #AUR installieren. #dms #linux #niri

#ventoy + #manjaro + #timeshift saved the day...

#ventoy + #manjaro + #timeshift saved the day...

Things i will never understand:
Doing a backup of my /home/

It says, still 5k not copied, but it shows 0s left, and on the left side it has a check ✔️.
(Maybe that are the skipped ones, who made problems?)

Anyway... That was my path with Manjaro.

Tomorrow I will try out CaschyOS on my private machine...

If you have any reason why I shouldn't, speak out. Thx

#manjaro #arch #caschyos #linux #ArchBTW
#copypaste

Things i will never understand:
Doing a backup of my /home/

It says, still 5k not copied, but it shows 0s left, and on the left side it has a check ✔️.
(Maybe that are the skipped ones, who made problems?)

Anyway... That was my path with Manjaro.

Tomorrow I will try out CaschyOS on my private machine...

If you have any reason why I shouldn't, speak out. Thx

#manjaro #arch #caschyos #linux #ArchBTW
#copypaste

Things i will never understand:
Doing a backup of my /home/

It says, still 5k not copied, but it shows 0s left, and on the left side it has a check ✔️.
(Maybe that are the skipped ones, who made problems?)

Anyway... That was my path with Manjaro.

Tomorrow I will try out CaschyOS on my private machine...

If you have any reason why I shouldn't, speak out. Thx

#manjaro #arch #caschyos #linux #ArchBTW
#copypaste

Things i will never understand:
Doing a backup of my /home/

It says, still 5k not copied, but it shows 0s left, and on the left side it has a check ✔️.
(Maybe that are the skipped ones, who made problems?)

Anyway... That was my path with Manjaro.

Tomorrow I will try out CaschyOS on my private machine...

If you have any reason why I shouldn't, speak out. Thx

#manjaro #arch #caschyos #linux #ArchBTW
#copypaste

Things i will never understand:
Doing a backup of my /home/

It says, still 5k not copied, but it shows 0s left, and on the left side it has a check ✔️.
(Maybe that are the skipped ones, who made problems?)

Anyway... That was my path with Manjaro.

Tomorrow I will try out CaschyOS on my private machine...

If you have any reason why I shouldn't, speak out. Thx

#manjaro #arch #caschyos #linux #ArchBTW
#copypaste

Das ist eine gute Auswahl an Beiträgen von mir aus dem bekannten Kuketz-Forum für IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und auch Hacking von Mike Kuketz über folgende Themen:

"Wie kann ich Manjaro Linux sicherer machen?" (Aufrufe: 8.500+ / 8.5k+) (Lesezeit: 44 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/wie-kann-ich-manjaro-linux-sicherer-machen/3555

und

"Hacktivismus – Legal oder Illegal?! – Bewertung aus juristischer Sichtweise" (Aufrufe: 800+) (Achtung: Das ist nichts für schwache Nerven und für viele Menschen sehr befremdlich und nur mit Anmeldung lesbar) (Lesezeit: 35 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/hacktivismus-legal-oder-illegal-bewertung-aus-juristischer-sichtweise/4513

#KuketzForum #Forum #MikeKuketz #Mike #Kuketz #IT #Sicherheit #Datenschutz #hacking #Auswahl #Beiträge #Beitrag #Themen #Thema #Distribution #Distro #Manjaro #Linux #sichermachen #absichern #härten #Hacktivismus #Aktivismus #Hacker #hacken #legal #illegal #Bewertung #Einschätzung #Justiz #juristisch #Gesetze #Sichtweise

Das ist eine gute Auswahl an Beiträgen von mir aus dem bekannten Kuketz-Forum für IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und auch Hacking von Mike Kuketz über folgende Themen:

"Wie kann ich Manjaro Linux sicherer machen?" (Aufrufe: 8.500+ / 8.5k+) (Lesezeit: 44 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/wie-kann-ich-manjaro-linux-sicherer-machen/3555

und

"Hacktivismus – Legal oder Illegal?! – Bewertung aus juristischer Sichtweise" (Aufrufe: 800+) (Achtung: Das ist nichts für schwache Nerven und für viele Menschen sehr befremdlich und nur mit Anmeldung lesbar) (Lesezeit: 35 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/hacktivismus-legal-oder-illegal-bewertung-aus-juristischer-sichtweise/4513

#KuketzForum #Forum #MikeKuketz #Mike #Kuketz #IT #Sicherheit #Datenschutz #hacking #Auswahl #Beiträge #Beitrag #Themen #Thema #Distribution #Distro #Manjaro #Linux #sichermachen #absichern #härten #Hacktivismus #Aktivismus #Hacker #hacken #legal #illegal #Bewertung #Einschätzung #Justiz #juristisch #Gesetze #Sichtweise

Das ist eine gute Auswahl an Beiträgen von mir aus dem bekannten Kuketz-Forum für IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und auch Hacking von Mike Kuketz über folgende Themen:

"Wie kann ich Manjaro Linux sicherer machen?" (Aufrufe: 8.500+ / 8.5k+) (Lesezeit: 44 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/wie-kann-ich-manjaro-linux-sicherer-machen/3555

und

"Hacktivismus – Legal oder Illegal?! – Bewertung aus juristischer Sichtweise" (Aufrufe: 800+) (Achtung: Das ist nichts für schwache Nerven und für viele Menschen sehr befremdlich und nur mit Anmeldung lesbar) (Lesezeit: 35 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/hacktivismus-legal-oder-illegal-bewertung-aus-juristischer-sichtweise/4513

#KuketzForum #Forum #MikeKuketz #Mike #Kuketz #IT #Sicherheit #Datenschutz #hacking #Auswahl #Beiträge #Beitrag #Themen #Thema #Distribution #Distro #Manjaro #Linux #sichermachen #absichern #härten #Hacktivismus #Aktivismus #Hacker #hacken #legal #illegal #Bewertung #Einschätzung #Justiz #juristisch #Gesetze #Sichtweise

Das ist eine gute Auswahl an Beiträgen von mir aus dem bekannten Kuketz-Forum für IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und auch Hacking von Mike Kuketz über folgende Themen:

"Wie kann ich Manjaro Linux sicherer machen?" (Aufrufe: 8.500+ / 8.5k+) (Lesezeit: 44 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/wie-kann-ich-manjaro-linux-sicherer-machen/3555

und

"Hacktivismus – Legal oder Illegal?! – Bewertung aus juristischer Sichtweise" (Aufrufe: 800+) (Achtung: Das ist nichts für schwache Nerven und für viele Menschen sehr befremdlich und nur mit Anmeldung lesbar) (Lesezeit: 35 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/hacktivismus-legal-oder-illegal-bewertung-aus-juristischer-sichtweise/4513

#KuketzForum #Forum #MikeKuketz #Mike #Kuketz #IT #Sicherheit #Datenschutz #hacking #Auswahl #Beiträge #Beitrag #Themen #Thema #Distribution #Distro #Manjaro #Linux #sichermachen #absichern #härten #Hacktivismus #Aktivismus #Hacker #hacken #legal #illegal #Bewertung #Einschätzung #Justiz #juristisch #Gesetze #Sichtweise

Das ist eine gute Auswahl an Beiträgen von mir aus dem bekannten Kuketz-Forum für IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und auch Hacking von Mike Kuketz über folgende Themen:

"Wie kann ich Manjaro Linux sicherer machen?" (Aufrufe: 8.500+ / 8.5k+) (Lesezeit: 44 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/wie-kann-ich-manjaro-linux-sicherer-machen/3555

und

"Hacktivismus – Legal oder Illegal?! – Bewertung aus juristischer Sichtweise" (Aufrufe: 800+) (Achtung: Das ist nichts für schwache Nerven und für viele Menschen sehr befremdlich und nur mit Anmeldung lesbar) (Lesezeit: 35 Minuten)

https://www.kuketz-forum.de/t/hacktivismus-legal-oder-illegal-bewertung-aus-juristischer-sichtweise/4513

#KuketzForum #Forum #MikeKuketz #Mike #Kuketz #IT #Sicherheit #Datenschutz #hacking #Auswahl #Beiträge #Beitrag #Themen #Thema #Distribution #Distro #Manjaro #Linux #sichermachen #absichern #härten #Hacktivismus #Aktivismus #Hacker #hacken #legal #illegal #Bewertung #Einschätzung #Justiz #juristisch #Gesetze #Sichtweise

for a few weeks chrome and code wouldnt update with the software center gui thing #manjaro uses... had to install #yay and #fix some #update #problems

```
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S yay
yay -Sy google-chrome
yay -Sy visual-studio-code-bin
```
why did i leave debian for my main desktop awhile ago again? it's ok thought,.. currently getting my backups in order so i can switch back ^>^

oh, right, it might have been some nvidia amd new laptop problems... hmmm... #worthit to try again?

Wie cursed darf es sein: JA

Man nehme ein Manjaro + XFCE 4 + xfce-winxp-tc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/) und kriegt dieses Kunstwerk :D

#retrocomputing #arch #manjaro #winxp

Wie cursed darf es sein: JA

Man nehme ein Manjaro + XFCE 4 + xfce-winxp-tc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/) und kriegt dieses Kunstwerk :D

#retrocomputing #arch #manjaro #winxp

Wie cursed darf es sein: JA

Man nehme ein Manjaro + XFCE 4 + xfce-winxp-tc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/) und kriegt dieses Kunstwerk :D

#retrocomputing #arch #manjaro #winxp

Wie cursed darf es sein: JA

Man nehme ein Manjaro + XFCE 4 + xfce-winxp-tc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/) und kriegt dieses Kunstwerk :D

#retrocomputing #arch #manjaro #winxp

Wie cursed darf es sein: JA

Man nehme ein Manjaro + XFCE 4 + xfce-winxp-tc (https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/) und kriegt dieses Kunstwerk :D

#retrocomputing #arch #manjaro #winxp

The current state of Plasma Mobile on the PinePhone

https://video.asgardius.company/w/m48s4pDEpJAkHs4MhqnCat

Manjaro Phosh Alpha 4: Anbox Community Service (Anbox on PinePhone III)

https://video.asgardius.company/w/kt7wQmRLEMripxSK5Z3PeF

GWF003 Der Ähm sager und der fehlende Popschutz

https://gelbwurstfieber.de/gwf003-der-aehm-sager-und-der-fehlende-popschutz/

GWF003 Der Ähm sager und der fehlende Popschutz

https://gelbwurstfieber.de/gwf003-der-aehm-sager-und-der-fehlende-popschutz/

Hallo an Alle #neuhier, die gerne #Linux #LinuxMint #Manjaro #Ubuntu oder "was auch immer" testen und installieren möchten.
Finde die Distri, die zu Dir passt.
Ihr braucht einen "größeren" USB-Stick und Installiert #Ventoy.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html
Dann Eure ISO Dateien einfach drauf kopieren ( kein #flashen ) und vom #USBStick booten. In der Auswahl dann die ISO starten und testen.
Auswahl gibt es hier. https://distrowatch.com/
Auch gut zur #Datenrettung #Backup geeignet.
Viel Erfolg!

#Linux Weekly Roundup for January 4th, 2026: #VLC 3.0.23, #Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1, #Shotcut 25.12, #ArchLinux 2026.01.01, #GNU Wget 2.2.1, #IceWM 4.0, Archinstall 3.0.15, #Manjaro Linux 26.0, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-4th-2026

#OpenSource #FOSS

#Linux Weekly Roundup for January 4th, 2026: #VLC 3.0.23, #Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1, #Shotcut 25.12, #ArchLinux 2026.01.01, #GNU Wget 2.2.1, #IceWM 4.0, Archinstall 3.0.15, #Manjaro Linux 26.0, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-4th-2026

#OpenSource #FOSS

#Presentación
¡Hola a todes en el Fedi!

Me llamo Eli.

Soy una persona no binaria de #México y vieje conocide del Fediverso, pero no he estado por aquí últimamente. Tenía una cuenta en queer.party y, como ya no existe esa instancia, quiero encontrar nuevas conexiones, no duden en seguirme si tenemos intereses en común o en recomendarme cuentas para seguir.

Soy #trans, #NoBinarie, #genderflux, #agénero, #maverique, #arromántique #demiarro, #polisexual, #tórique, #nobiane y #poliamorose.
Uso el género neutro, pronombre elle, pero abierte a neopronombres (elli, ellu), excepto pronombres gráficos (ellx, ell_).

Me encanta cualquier cosa que tenga que ver con el #terror (sobre todo pelis), pueden ir a Letterboxd para ver mis reseñas. Mi peli favorita es Chopping Mall (1986).

Ya no suelo ver muchas series porque odio cuando las cancelan y no les dan un final digno, cosa que pasa mucho, pero también me pueden encontrar en Serializd.

Mi lista de lectura está dominada por la #NovelaNegra (sobre todo nórdica) pero también me gusta leer novelas de terror, de #RomanceQueer, o cualquier cosa que me pique la curiosidad.

Soy una especie de #geek que disfruta mucho del #FOSS, mi sistema operativo principal ha sido #LinuxMint desde hace 5 años, y tengo una laptop vieja en la que cambio de distros, ahora con #Manjaro y #Debian. Mi sistema de apoyo es #macOS.

También soy une nerd de los #idiomas, hablo #sueco, #catalán y #francés. Pero voy a publicar más que nada en #inglés y #español.

Mi género de #música favorito es el #IndieRock, pero escucho variado, sobre todo géneros #indie.
Mi banda favorita por siempre jamás es #kent.
Mis artistas favorites en este momento son: #cupcakKe, #DaltonDeschain, #SoporAeternus, #TwinTemple, #LaCasaAzul, #Enjambre, #Ginestà, #ElsAmicsDeLesArts, #PierreLapointe, #Остава…

Mis animales preferidos son los #gatos, las #arañas, los #pulpos y los #caracoles, pero no tengo mascotas.

El #ASMR me ha ayudado a relajarme y dormir desde hace más de 10 años, así que puede que comparta algún que otro enlace por aquí.

Me encantan los #rompecabezas y de vez en cuando armo uno que otro.

#Presentación
¡Hola a todes en el Fedi!

Me llamo Eli.

Soy una persona no binaria de #México y vieje conocide del Fediverso, pero no he estado por aquí últimamente. Tenía una cuenta en queer.party y, como ya no existe esa instancia, quiero encontrar nuevas conexiones, no duden en seguirme si tenemos intereses en común o en recomendarme cuentas para seguir.

Soy #trans, #NoBinarie, #genderflux, #agénero, #maverique, #arromántique #demiarro, #polisexual, #tórique, #nobiane y #poliamorose.
Uso el género neutro, pronombre elle, pero abierte a neopronombres (elli, ellu), excepto pronombres gráficos (ellx, ell_).

Me encanta cualquier cosa que tenga que ver con el #terror (sobre todo pelis), pueden ir a Letterboxd para ver mis reseñas. Mi peli favorita es Chopping Mall (1986).

Ya no suelo ver muchas series porque odio cuando las cancelan y no les dan un final digno, cosa que pasa mucho, pero también me pueden encontrar en Serializd.

Mi lista de lectura está dominada por la #NovelaNegra (sobre todo nórdica) pero también me gusta leer novelas de terror, de #RomanceQueer, o cualquier cosa que me pique la curiosidad.

Soy una especie de #geek que disfruta mucho del #FOSS, mi sistema operativo principal ha sido #LinuxMint desde hace 5 años, y tengo una laptop vieja en la que cambio de distros, ahora con #Manjaro y #Debian. Mi sistema de apoyo es #macOS.

También soy une nerd de los #idiomas, hablo #sueco, #catalán y #francés. Pero voy a publicar más que nada en #inglés y #español.

Mi género de #música favorito es el #IndieRock, pero escucho variado, sobre todo géneros #indie.
Mi banda favorita por siempre jamás es #kent.
Mis artistas favorites en este momento son: #cupcakKe, #DaltonDeschain, #SoporAeternus, #TwinTemple, #LaCasaAzul, #Enjambre, #Ginestà, #ElsAmicsDeLesArts, #PierreLapointe, #Остава…

Mis animales preferidos son los #gatos, las #arañas, los #pulpos y los #caracoles, pero no tengo mascotas.

El #ASMR me ha ayudado a relajarme y dormir desde hace más de 10 años, así que puede que comparta algún que otro enlace por aquí.

Me encantan los #rompecabezas y de vez en cuando armo uno que otro.

#Introduction
Hey, everyone on the Fedi!

I'm Eli (pronounced as Ellie).

I'm an #enby from #Mexico and not new to the Fediverse, but haven't been around recently. I had an account at queer.party and, since that instance is gone now, I'm looking to find new connections, so feel free to follow if we share interests or recommend accounts to follow.

I'm #trans, #nonbinary, #genderflux, #agender, #maverique, #aromantic #demiaro, #polysexual, #toric, #enbian, and #polyamorous.
My pronouns are they/them, ze/hir and it/its, interchangeable.

I love all things #horror (mostly films) and am very fond of #80sHorror, you can check my Letterboxd out to see my reviews. My fave film is Chopping Mall (1986).

I usually don't watch shows now, I hate when they get cancelled and the story gets no proper ending, which happens a lot, but you can also find me at Serializd.

My reading list is predominantly #CrimeFiction (mainly Nordic) but I also like reading horror, #QueerRomance, and anything that piques my curiosity.

I'm some kind of a #geek and enjoy #FOSS, my main OS has been #LinuxMint for 5 years now, and I have an old laptop for distrohopping, currently using #Manjaro and #Debian. My secondary OS is #macOS.

I also happen to be a #language nerd, I speak #Swedish, #Catalan, and #French. Will mainly post in #English and #Spanish, though.

My favourite #music genre is #IndieRock, but I’d listen to anything, primarily more #indie genres.
My favourite band ever is #kent.
As of now, my favourite artists are: #cupcakKe, #DaltonDeschain, #SoporAeternus, #TwinTemple, #LaCasaAzul, #Enjambre, #Ginestà, #ElsAmicsDeLesArts, #PierreLapointe, #Остава…

My favourite animals are #cats, #spiders, #octopuses and #snails, but I don't have any pets.

#ASMR has helped me relax and fall asleep for +10 years now, so I may share some links every now and then.

I love #JigsawPuzzles and every once in a while I do some #puzzling.

#Introduction
Hey, everyone on the Fedi!

I'm Eli (pronounced as Ellie).

I'm an #enby from #Mexico and not new to the Fediverse, but haven't been around recently. I had an account at queer.party and, since that instance is gone now, I'm looking to find new connections, so feel free to follow if we share interests or recommend accounts to follow.

I'm #trans, #nonbinary, #genderflux, #agender, #maverique, #aromantic #demiaro, #polysexual, #toric, #enbian, and #polyamorous.
My pronouns are they/them, ze/hir and it/its, interchangeable.

I love all things #horror (mostly films) and am very fond of #80sHorror, you can check my Letterboxd out to see my reviews. My fave film is Chopping Mall (1986).

I usually don't watch shows now, I hate when they get cancelled and the story gets no proper ending, which happens a lot, but you can also find me at Serializd.

My reading list is predominantly #CrimeFiction (mainly Nordic) but I also like reading horror, #QueerRomance, and anything that piques my curiosity.

I'm some kind of a #geek and enjoy #FOSS, my main OS has been #LinuxMint for 5 years now, and I have an old laptop for distrohopping, currently using #Manjaro and #Debian. My secondary OS is #macOS.

I also happen to be a #language nerd, I speak #Swedish, #Catalan, and #French. Will mainly post in #English and #Spanish, though.

My favourite #music genre is #IndieRock, but I’d listen to anything, primarily more #indie genres.
My favourite band ever is #kent.
As of now, my favourite artists are: #cupcakKe, #DaltonDeschain, #SoporAeternus, #TwinTemple, #LaCasaAzul, #Enjambre, #Ginestà, #ElsAmicsDeLesArts, #PierreLapointe, #Остава…

My favourite animals are #cats, #spiders, #octopuses and #snails, but I don't have any pets.

#ASMR has helped me relax and fall asleep for +10 years now, so I may share some links every now and then.

I love #JigsawPuzzles and every once in a while I do some #puzzling.

Tips for using the Makeblock mBot 2 / mBot Neo under Linux

https://blog.sengotta.net/tips-for-using-the-makeblock-mbot-2-mbot-neo-under-linux/

Couple of weeks ago i purchased the Makeblock mBot 2 to get into Robot tinkering with the kids. Since Lego left the market with its Mind Storms sets there arent many good alternatives on the market. There are some kits like this, but things like the Ozobot are quite expensive for what you get, on the other end of the scale there are cheap robot car kits from China, which feature an arduino clone where you have to program everything from scratch. Not really beginner friendly

Compared to this the mBot 2 is really nice. You can set it up in a couple of minutes with the kids and you have the choice to program it graphical with a blockly style IDE like or in Python. The IDE is web based so it should work on most devices.

But my children have Linux Desktops and that wasnt as straight forwarded as expected. Because i didnt find many ressources on this topic i thought i share my experience, so other people dont have to search that much.

In the end there are two ways to connect to the mBot 2 or better to say to the Makeblock Cyberpi which is the ESP32 based brain of the robot, via USB Serial over USB-C or via bluetooth. We will also have a look at two IDE’s the Makeblock mBlock 5 and the Open Roberta Lab by the Frauenhofer Institut which you can also host yourself.

BotheIDE’s are in the end based on Blocky if i understood that correctly.

Enable USB Serial on Linux for non root users

One thing you really want to do is to enable non root users on linux to use Serial Port connections. It gave me quite a headache to understand why for example the Open Roberta Connector works on my laptop but not on the Desktop of my daughter. It was espcially confusing that there was a connection but i was not able to upload any stuff. Normally it should be sufficient to add her user to group dialout or uucp but that wasnt the case. Because after that the file permissions are still not correct for ttyUSB0. Instead of fiddling around i took the „nuclear“ approach. I use Platformio on my laptop and that project gives me a nice udev ruleset which solves that problem for all kinds of USB-Serial converters incl the one used in the mBot 2. So had over to them and simply use that, one problem solved: https://docs.platformio.org/en/stable/core/installation/udev-rules.html

Makeblock mBlock 5

The Makeblock mBlock 5 IDE is the standard IDE for the mBot 2 which makes use of all its features. Afaik it is not self hostable any more. Makeblock tend to share their sourcecode on Github which is not the case anymore. Nevertheless if you want to get the most out of mBot 2 (with block style programming) thats the way to go. You find that ide under https://ide.mblock.cc

Yep it is a China based program but you know from the start what you bought

Do yourself a favour: use this IDE with a Webserial enabled Browser. So afaik Firefox is a no-go, you should use Chromium or a browser based on that, than you have no problem.

In that IDE you could also use Bluetooth, which is quite cool in live mode, in fact you could remote control your mBot 2 over this. To use this you either have to enable Web Bluetooth support or the Experimental Web Platform Features, both you can find if the call chrome://flags from the address bar.

Open Roberta Lab

The Open Roberta Lab is a web based block style IDE for different Robots and micro controller boards made by the Frauenhofer IAIS. It is also based on blockly. The approach here is a bit different because they dont rely on webserial. That means you can also use Firefox on the other hand you have to install the Open Roberta Connector which is a small Java program. That means you have to install Java on your System. I tried it with OpenJDK 17 and 25 which both worked. Just grab the tarball from Github, unzip and use the install script from the tarball or go into the folder an launch the Program manually: java -jar -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 OpenRobertaConnector.jar

Form here it ist quite straight forwarded like in the wiki entry: https://jira.iais.fraunhofer.de/wiki/spaces/ORInfo/pages/252155447/Set+up+mBot+2?showLanguage=en_GB

If you cant upload programs than restart the program using sudo, if it works then, that means you have a permission problem with the USB Serial port.

Compared to mBlock 5 Open Roberta Lab is quite limited, which must not be bad for first experiments.

I hope that post is a little help to someone. Because the holidays will begin shortly i will now start to experiment with the robot with my kids. Lets see what we can do with it.

#education #engineering #linux #makeblock #manjaro #mbot2 #mbotneo #openrobertalab #robot

@bjoern

Tips for using the Makeblock mBot 2 / mBot Neo under Linux

https://blog.sengotta.net/tips-for-using-the-makeblock-mbot-2-mbot-neo-under-linux/

Couple of weeks ago i purchased the Makeblock mBot 2 to get into Robot tinkering with the kids. Since Lego left the market with its Mind Storms sets there arent many good alternatives on the market. There are some kits like this, but things like the Ozobot are quite expensive for what you get, on the other end of the scale there are cheap robot car kits from China, which feature an arduino clone where you have to program everything from scratch. Not really beginner friendly

Compared to this the mBot 2 is really nice. You can set it up in a couple of minutes with the kids and you have the choice to program it graphical with a blockly style IDE like or in Python. The IDE is web based so it should work on most devices.

But my children have Linux Desktops and that wasnt as straight forwarded as expected. Because i didnt find many ressources on this topic i thought i share my experience, so other people dont have to search that much.

In the end there are two ways to connect to the mBot 2 or better to say to the Makeblock Cyberpi which is the ESP32 based brain of the robot, via USB Serial over USB-C or via bluetooth. We will also have a look at two IDE’s the Makeblock mBlock 5 and the Open Roberta Lab by the Frauenhofer Institut which you can also host yourself.

BotheIDE’s are in the end based on Blocky if i understood that correctly.

Enable USB Serial on Linux for non root users

One thing you really want to do is to enable non root users on linux to use Serial Port connections. It gave me quite a headache to understand why for example the Open Roberta Connector works on my laptop but not on the Desktop of my daughter. It was espcially confusing that there was a connection but i was not able to upload any stuff. Normally it should be sufficient to add her user to group dialout or uucp but that wasnt the case. Because after that the file permissions are still not correct for ttyUSB0. Instead of fiddling around i took the „nuclear“ approach. I use Platformio on my laptop and that project gives me a nice udev ruleset which solves that problem for all kinds of USB-Serial converters incl the one used in the mBot 2. So had over to them and simply use that, one problem solved: https://docs.platformio.org/en/stable/core/installation/udev-rules.html

Makeblock mBlock 5

The Makeblock mBlock 5 IDE is the standard IDE for the mBot 2 which makes use of all its features. Afaik it is not self hostable any more. Makeblock tend to share their sourcecode on Github which is not the case anymore. Nevertheless if you want to get the most out of mBot 2 (with block style programming) thats the way to go. You find that ide under https://ide.mblock.cc

Yep it is a China based program but you know from the start what you bought

Do yourself a favour: use this IDE with a Webserial enabled Browser. So afaik Firefox is a no-go, you should use Chromium or a browser based on that, than you have no problem.

In that IDE you could also use Bluetooth, which is quite cool in live mode, in fact you could remote control your mBot 2 over this. To use this you either have to enable Web Bluetooth support or the Experimental Web Platform Features, both you can find if the call chrome://flags from the address bar.

Open Roberta Lab

The Open Roberta Lab is a web based block style IDE for different Robots and micro controller boards made by the Frauenhofer IAIS. It is also based on blockly. The approach here is a bit different because they dont rely on webserial. That means you can also use Firefox on the other hand you have to install the Open Roberta Connector which is a small Java program. That means you have to install Java on your System. I tried it with OpenJDK 17 and 25 which both worked. Just grab the tarball from Github, unzip and use the install script from the tarball or go into the folder an launch the Program manually: java -jar -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 OpenRobertaConnector.jar

Form here it ist quite straight forwarded like in the wiki entry: https://jira.iais.fraunhofer.de/wiki/spaces/ORInfo/pages/252155447/Set+up+mBot+2?showLanguage=en_GB

If you cant upload programs than restart the program using sudo, if it works then, that means you have a permission problem with the USB Serial port.

Compared to mBlock 5 Open Roberta Lab is quite limited, which must not be bad for first experiments.

I hope that post is a little help to someone. Because the holidays will begin shortly i will now start to experiment with the robot with my kids. Lets see what we can do with it.

#education #engineering #linux #makeblock #manjaro #mbot2 #mbotneo #openrobertalab #robot

@bjoern

Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

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Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

#ThinkPad #X270 #LinuxGaming #Manjaro #RetroGaming #IndieGaming #FOSS #Tech #Linux #retrogaming

Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

#ThinkPad #X270 #LinuxGaming #Manjaro #RetroGaming #IndieGaming #FOSS #Tech #Linux #retrogaming

Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

#ThinkPad #X270 #LinuxGaming #Manjaro #RetroGaming #IndieGaming #FOSS #Tech #Linux #retrogaming

Mein ThinkPad X270 ist jetzt komplett fürs Indie- und Retro-Gaming optimiert. Leichtgewichtiges Manjaro, saubere Kernel-Tweaks und ein paar kleine Performance-Anpassungen machen das alte Gerät überraschend stark. Perfekt für unterwegs, kurze Sessions und Klassiker, die wieder richtig Spaß machen.

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Presque 3 heures que j'essaie de faire fonctionner le #touchpad #elan sur le #laptop #lenovo 14w sous #manjaro sans succès.
Le pire c'est qu'il fonctionne dans le bios...
Aucune des solutions trouvées n'a fonctionné :(
#linux

@knix

Also ich würde an deiner Stelle gar keine K.I.-Software nutzen wollen, sondern sie aus bestimmten Gründen boykottieren und versuche es doch mal mit den Open Source Apps von Fossify, was der "Nachfolger" von den Simple Mobile Tools ist. Diese Apps verwende ich unter einem freien Android (iodéOS).

https://www.fossify.org

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

Unter Linux (Manjaro Linux oder CachyOS) habe ich bisher leider noch kein gutes Programm für Notizen gefunden gehabt.

#Open #Source #freie #Software #Fossify #Apps #freies #Android #Notizen #IodeOS #Manjaro #Linux #CachyOS

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List of European Linux OS #WindowsAlternatives

Ireland:
#Linux Mint
#Solus (Ireland)
#ZorinOS (Ireland)

Germany:
#OpenSUSE
#CachyOS
#Tuxedo OS

Germany/France:
#Manjaro Linux

France:
#Lubuntu

Greece:
# MX Linux
#AntiX

Poland:
#SparkyLinux

Netherlands:
#EndeavourOS
#NixOS

Nowray:
#Alpine

Spain:
#VoidLinux
#AntiX

Belgium:
#ArcoLinux

UK:
#Ubuntu

Switzerland:
#KaliLinux

Italy:
#VanillaOS

EU:
#ArchCraft

Portugal:
#KDEneon

Do I missing something and is the list correct?

A nice thing about #Manjaro is that it holds back updates for a week. I see Manjaro haters roll out this fact like it's a bad thing. Whatever. Here's the "fun" part of all this: I didn't need to do it. The problem isn't #Majaro, there's something wrong with #Arch mirrors and #keyservers. Huge swaths of the mirrors are inaccessible. Keyservers are also often unavailable. Why? Who the fuck knows. So, I have a tarted up Arch install that may or may not update correctly. Oh, and I installed KDE because connecting to a sever to download something else wasn't working at the time. That's my #Linux Spring Adventure. 4/4

A nice thing about #Manjaro is that it holds back updates for a week. I see Manjaro haters roll out this fact like it's a bad thing. Whatever. Here's the "fun" part of all this: I didn't need to do it. The problem isn't #Majaro, there's something wrong with #Arch mirrors and #keyservers. Huge swaths of the mirrors are inaccessible. Keyservers are also often unavailable. Why? Who the fuck knows. So, I have a tarted up Arch install that may or may not update correctly. Oh, and I installed KDE because connecting to a sever to download something else wasn't working at the time. That's my #Linux Spring Adventure. 4/4

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#freesoftware #tux #penguins #penguinday #coroot #linuxkernel #tech #softwarelibre #ubuntu #manjaro #mint #arch #debian

Happy #WorldPenguinDay to all fellow fans of #Linux, #opensource, and #ePBF-powered innovation - worldwide! 🐧💚🌍

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