![]() But that was then and this is now and as I write this, I’m already planning to upgrade the SD card in the ApplePi to a 128gb mSATA drive, once the RPi4 is installed. Okay, by 90s standards 100mb for a screen saver is a little excessive, in fact it’s more than the average hard drive found in an Amiga back in the day. In total the whole package and extras will occupy less than 100mb on your SD card, which isn’t bad when you consider how much it offers. ( ) Most of it tread ground I’d already covered, however at the bottom the author was kind enough to include the commands for installing the additional screensaver data. So once more I turned to the internet and after a little searching, discovered this tutorial. The interface itself doesn’t offer any advice regarding how or where to download the missing savers. When you initially install xscreensaver, it comes with a limited selection of built-in savers, if you’re betting Flying Toasters wasn’t amongst them, you’d be right. This can’t be a coincidence surely, someone just happened to name one after an Afterdark screen saver? I do have a Pi4, but haven’t gotten around to installing it in the ApplePi, as with many things, it is on my “to do” list.Ī cursory search online led me to xscreensaver, which offers a vast library of different screen savers, but most importantly one amongst them is titled “flying toaster”. By 90s standards the black screen was duller than a rainy bank holiday, surely there was some way to spruce things up, that wouldn’t cripple the RPi3?Īs what often happens in these situations, my train of thought led me down an internet rabbit hole, researching what screen savers were available for Linux, plus what would work on the limited resources of a RPi3. Anyone who ran AfterDark on their Mac back in the 90s, will vividly recall these flying chromium effigies and on the Amiga it was dancing lines. ![]() However on this occasion it got me thinking back to the old days of elaborate screen savers, procedural graphics, matrix scrolling text and flying toasters. This is what Raspbian has done since it was installed and up until then I’d not really thought about it. I walked away for a while and when I came back the screen had blanked out. Over the weekend I was sitting in front of the ApplePi doing a little writing and surfing. And if it is CMR it will be better than SMR.Raspberry Pi & Flying Toasters Posted: Aug| Author: Heamogoblin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: afterdark, Macintosh, rpi, screensaver | Leave a comment They are somewhat more expensive than the others but there are reasons for this. There is no list of recommended drives, but I suggest you use a drive made specifically for NAS. Although without discs you won't be able to get much use out of it, but you can practice and learn. You can install OMV without a disk, in fact it is recommended to do it that way and connect the disks later. Unless there is only one disk and it is SSD. The precautions with a raspberry are fundamentally to be aware of possible power problems on the disks, so the answer is yes, a separate source for the disks is preferable. It has its advantages and disadvantages, I'm not going to get into that discussion. Lots of people use raspberry to host OMV. ![]()
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