Vacation Hardware 2018 (3)

A couple of Chromecast dongles.
A new video one for the GF, and a Audio one, to test it out.
Activated both of them, the video one works A Ok (as expected) the Audio one (after a very limited set of tests) seems to be nothing but trouble... Will see where this goes.

Chromium's Cache on tmpfs

As part of the "Chrome migration", in order to use the newly acquired Chromecast, installed Chromium on my "new"Dell XPS.
Since the lappie uses a SSD, I've moved Chromium's cache to the system's tmpfs file system, actually the /tmp directory, which I have already set it up right from the get go.

The thing is pretty straight forward, since the lappie already has a working tmpfs, of course...
Matter of fact, all it takes is to launch the browser with a flag, which I added the option to the launch icon/ script on XFCE, the whole command looks like this:

chromium-browser --disk-cache-dir=/tmp/cache %U

Getting back to Chromium...

Actually, is more like getting back to Chrome, which I hate a lot, I'm a Firefox kinda guy and has been for the last couple of years...
But, due to the fact that I have to use my newly acquired Chromecast, Chrome is in more than in order, like a do or die situation...

These are the instructions to install it.

sudo su -
echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chrome.list
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install google-chrome-stable

This is on the X220... I'll have to switch to Chromium for my 32 bits boxes and lappies.

Vacation Hardware (Commissioned & Bought)

The laptop on the top picture is actually for a close friend of the GF.
We were commissioned to actually buy it, so we did that, and proceed to do a minimal configuration.
The Chromecast is mine, set it up and played a bit with it, mostly testing how it casts video files.