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Rooting your Gemini PDA

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I recently got a Gemini PDA (WiFi). To run rooted Android and Linux (dual boot) I did the following: Followed the details here. Downloaded & unzipped Windows Flashing Tool Downloaded & installed Windows Drivers Chose my Partition setup here then downloaded Scatter File Base Firmware (ie Android) Linux Firmware Unzipped both firmwares into a dir …

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Arch Linux on aarch64 gpg keys

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If you have an issue with gpg verification of packages the instructions are slightly different to recover as the signing keys are different: pacman-key –init pacman-key –populate archlinuxarm This is if you get errors like: error: mutt: signature from “Arch Linux ARM Build System <builder@archlinuxarm.org>” is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mutt-1.10.0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or …

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GrafX2 – Deluxe Paint for Linux

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GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs ​Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse.

gsconnect – native kdeconnect for gnome

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https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/ is a fantastic implementation of kdeconnect which allows you interface with your android phone from your linux desktop. I had some issues configuring it on Fedora as I was previously using kdeconnectd so gsconnect defaulted to the next available port (1717). To resolve this I removed kdeconnectd (yum remove), uninstalled gsconnect (rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gsconnect@andyholmes.github.io), …

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pico-8

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PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a shell for typing in Lua commands and provides simple built-in tools for creating your own cartridges.