# Some notes and things

## Making devterm less of a hair shirt

The devterm is a raspberry pi CM3,4,5?
based handheld computer. It's impossible to buy
new and people charge rip-off prices for them
used on eBay. It has been rendered obsolete
by the newer uconsole. (That's "microconsole";
only knuckle-draggers who didn't learn their
Greek say "You-console.") 

While you can still buy uconsole if you're
willing to wait half a year (and potentially
have to pay insane customs tariffs), it
still comes with just a CM4-lite w/4GB RAM so
is not really much of an upgrade. Anyway, on to
the notes to self:

### The right distro
Debian sucks. It has always been a shambolic mess
of poorly maintained packages with no easy way
to build things from source (Debian has never had
anything like FreeBSD ports or Arch AUR.) Save
yourself the Makefile headaches and get Manjaro.
About the only reason to use it on Pi is you
get Mathematica for free.

###Dealing with a screen only 480 pixels high
Zoom out:
xrander --output DSI-1 --scale 1.5

Return to normal res.:
same as above, but with --scale 1

###Coping with a rubbish trackball
Get enjoy daemon. You can do it the dumb way
with xinput, but enjoy was made for the devterm
and is actually usable.

Well, that's enough for today. I should break
up this page into smaller pieces as I continue
complaining about my junk.

##Gemini links worth visiting more than once:

=> gemini://sdf.org To the SDF cluster Gemini Homepage
=> gemini://gem.sdf.org To the SDF Meta Array Gemini Homepage
=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ Techrights
=> gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext.gmi Gemini syntax