04 April 2025
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Last saturday the Raspberry Pi CM4 arrived, so i spend the
saturday afternoon upgrading the DevTerm. As anticipated, 
it went absolutely without any problems... at least without
problems caused by the hardware itself. The first time i
powered the DevTerm on nothing besides a short flash of the
power-led happened, after some confusing minutes and a look
at the net it dawned on me: I had connected the CM the 
wrong way around. With the thought in the head, that i most
likely have fried the CM i opened the DevTerm up again, 
corrected my mistake, and after switching it back on... it
worked! Well, seems like the old german proverb "Das Glueck 
ist mit den doofen" ("The luck is with the stupid ones") is
indeed true.

With its new core, the DevTerm now is an absolutely daily
driveable small computer, and now with a functioning mini-
hdmi port i now can also use it docked with an external 
monitor, keyboard and mouse. The new ooomph it got also
allowed me to get back from the terminal into a graphical
desktop environment again. I opted for the suckless dwm +
dmenu + st combination which really runs well on the little
machine. Regarding a browser for the normal web i am still
trying out various options. At the moment, surf (also from
the suckless ecosystem) runs quiet well, also for the more
sane parts of the web Dillo is a great choice. 

On other things going on: I have finally started to watch
"Strange New Worlds", and so far i really like it, for me it
finally feels again like the optimistic Trek of yesteryear.
In a way i think its a nice continuation of the radical 
tone shift you could see at the beginning of the second 
season of ST Discovery when they introduced Cpt. Pike. Well
at least it is nice to see again a more positive version of
the future...