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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Works great with a Lapdock, too! (Crownote View)

On a table, lapdock with the AYN Thor connected over USB C. All 3 displays lit, laptop display with KDE information and main thor display with neofetch

Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The AYN Thor is such a fun little device, here it is running Nura (postmarketOS)! With the 7.3 kernel plus a few patches. (Plasma Bigscreen could be a pretty good match for this device if I can make it handle the dual screens well...)

Rainbow AYN Thor running Plasma Desktop on Nura, displaying "About this System"

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Got a DSpico, it has an example app which lets you use the DS as a USB Audio device, therefore I may have the worlds funniest DAC

A DSpico cartridge , pink, sitting on top of a white DS Lite with the sd card slot and RP2040 visible through it’s transparent case

DS Lite, closed lid with a USB C cable going into the cartridge slot with the DS pico, bottom right has earbuds connected to the headphone jack

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

3D Printing rack mounts using a MacBook Neo running OctoPrint in a Fedora VM (with USB pass through for the printer serial and webcam)

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

the cluster is taking shape!! current task: install fedora server 5 times (network is temporary until the 2.5GbE switch arrives)

Rackmate 10 inch rack with 5 rock 5Bs
in SBC shelves, a netgear switch and a mess of ethernet cables, to the left is a hdmi portable monitor displaying a fedora server install. A small kirby plush sits beside it!

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

🤤 (you already know we’re clustering these bad boys)

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

The new Macbook Neo is pretty nice- hey wait a minute

A silver Macbook Neo, but on screen is the Mac OS X Tiger PPC desktop and about this mac screw

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

TTC Line 5 Opening day (that I forgot to post lol)

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Before and after: #UniFi upgrades for my network closet!

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Updated #homeassistant setup at home with the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 Zigbee coordinator!

ZBT-2, Pi 5 in Pironman Case, HA sticker, Ikea fake plant

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

Before and after: my home assistant Raspberry Pi in a new case! (Pironman 5 Max)

The many bags of pieces of the Pironman 5 Max case laid out on my desk

All put together, with RGB LEDs glowing through the acrylic panel, and OLED visible with stats. Next to it is a Home Assistant ZBT-2

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Plasma on FreeBSD! (on the Panasonic Let’s Note)

KDE System Settings - about this System - FreeBSD 14.3

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

This CPU! And yes, it came wrapped in a napkin.

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025

Shout out to WiiLink for letting me order Pizza from a Wii (using a japanese exclusive Wii Channel, Demae Channel)

Wii Menu launch screening showing “Food Channel, service by Dominos” and a pictogram of a person holding a bowl

Food channel main screen, with delivery address details, and buttons including “Order history” and a large button “Order with a picture of a yum emoji with fork and spoon

Confirm order page - Hawaiian Pizza and Alfredo Pasta

The wii sitting next to two dominos boxes and a diet coke bottle

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Compiled and flashed coreboot + edk onto this ThinkCentre M700 Tiny! It works great and now opens up the possibilities for some “interesting” CPU upgrades.

ThinkCentre open with a SOIC clip connected to the bios chip, going into a CH341a programmer

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

USB-C power modded my brothers coreboot modded chromebook!

Wide shot of the inside of the laptop, battery and motherboard visible. Right side has a hotglued PD trigger module, and a red and black wire run in the middle to the charger port on the motherboard.

Closeup of the trigger board, sitting in a space between the motherboard and speaker with the case side cut out

The connector on the motherboard where the barrel jack plugs in, wires are soldered onto the back of the connector

Laptop put back together running Linux and charging with USB C

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Some RTL-SDR fun ft. the Japanese Panasonic laptop

RTL SDR Kit, with the pieces still in their wrapper. SDR in a pink bag, the dipole antennas in a tube

RTL SDR plugged into the Panasonic Lets Note , and dipole on tripod in the back. Running Gqrx

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

always very satisfying to USB-C mod something (even if it is as simple as a Type C to barrel plug cable like this!) Also if you also happen to have a Panasonic Let's Note, I can confirm a 15v USB PD to 5.5mm OD / 2.5mm ID barrel cable works great (even if the original adapter is 16v).

Me holding a Panasonic Let's Note CF-RZ6 with a black barrel cable coming straight out and into an Apple 70w USB-C brick plugged into the wall.

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Linux on the Xbox 360!!! I was trying out the new ABadAvatar hack and of course the first thing I do is this is try some old Xbox linux build

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

Pixel 3a with Plasma Mobile ready for #akademy in Berlin (with @espidev ) The Vodafone employee was only slightly confused setting up the SIM on Plasma Mobile and looked somewhat concerned when I rebooted the phone and the tty scrolled by 😄

Pixel 3a in front of a Vodafone store with the APN setting page open

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

Got myself a Pixel 3a (and installed @postmarketOS of course), in Japan!! (@flamingradian you’d be happy to see this)

Pixel 3a with Plasma Mobile (at Shukugawa station, because I was doing the Haruhi pilgrimage)

The exterior of the HARD-OFF in Kadoma Shikenjo-mae where I got the Pixel 3a

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Come help test KRetro, a libretro frontend for KDE! It's still basic, but functional now! The easiest way is with the nightly flatpak (it has cores built in), just "flatpak install cdn.kde.org/flatpak/kretro-nightly/…" Or […] [Original post on social.sineware.ca]

Screenshot of KRetro's home screen, with squares in a grid for each rom. The images in the tiles are of the consoles (GBA, SNES, SMS, Genesis)

Sonic the Hedgehog title screen open in KRetro.

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

The conclusion! All buttoned up and running OpenWRT with ModemManager.

A 3D printed box approx raspberry pi sized with a white case and black lid, with a label on the side reading "Sineware Fosspot". Two USB-C cables come out on the short side.

Screenshot of OpenWRT status page.
System
Hostname Seshan-Fosspot
Model Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Rev 1.0
Architecture ARMv8 Processor rev 4
Target Platform bcm27xx/bcm2710
Firmware Version OpenWrt 24.10.2 r28739-d9340319c6 / LuCI openwrt-24.10 branch 25.206.68186~6da5e65
Kernel Version 6.6.93

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Have to restart the seshan.xyz server to install One-Core-API, goodbye to 537 days of uptime 🫡

A screenshot of Windows Server 2003 R2, with the Local Area Connection Status dialog open, showing a duration of "537 days"

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Thanks to the power of next day shipping that problem has been solved!

Two flat PCB antennas connected to the waveshare modem using IPEX 1 to 4 adapter cable

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Seshan "Seshpenguin" @seshpenguin.social.sineware.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Yes, I will be at #akademy ! (Not the full week though unfortunately but excited nevertheless!!) Plasma Mobile devices are easy enough to bring along... I wonder what I can bring for Bigscreen 🤔