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I have been using PlayOnLinux to manage wineprefixes on my Devuan system and decided to branch out and try using Lutris today. I have been having trouble with it since I installed CUDA (plus the accompanying nvidia drivers) from deb files instead of just using the run file.

One of my on and off again Drupal projects is a food information database, built mostly around whatever the current government official database is. These days that is the USDA FNDDS, or Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies.

I use Devuan with sysvinit because I do not normally have boot time problems, but I found myself with some and this is how I fixed them.

In the world of electronics, especially PCs, it is fashionable to call an outdated piece of equipment a "potato". My PC absolutely qualifies, but what makes it interesting is that you can trace its descent from a potato several generations older. This is a neat testament to what's possible to do cheaply with AMD stuff since they keep announcing new processors on old sockets. Here's what it's in and what's in it now:

I have recently got a 2008 Versa Note S, also known as a C11 or Tiida, and I've been driving it to work. It has been disintegrating a bit (the front suspension is very sloppy now) but okay, I'll deal with that, it's a 15 year old car. But what I couldn't deal with was the stereo, which was an in-dash 3 CD changer with no aux input.