Tech Tips Tuesday 35 – Alternatives to htop, Wayland News, and Pi, to boot.

TTT 34.1 – Ever Used HTOP and Felt It Lacking?
Here are some alternatives:
Atop – very plain output, but gives a sysadmin all the information they need about a system and its running processes
Vtop – a node.js based option which looks prettier than htop, and far better than atop
Btop++ – a python/C++ version of htop with full mouse support (seems nice to have in a cli-based application, and has a game-inspired menu, which I have experimented with, and it is a very nice upgrade in terms of UI vs htop.
Glances – A very complete glance at running processes, including network, temperature sensor, disk activity, CPU, and Memory usage monitoring, all in one terminal emulator tab.
Nmon – Glances, but with a configurable view. You can have as much or as little info about your system on screen at once as you may need in the moment.

What is htop? It is a CLI app that helps you to monitor your system processes and resource usage, as well as ways to end misbehaving processes.

https://itsfoss.com/htop-alternatives/
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Thankfulness leads to humility. When we thank God for everything, whether breaths, accomplishments, or material goods, we recognize that we are not the source of our lives. This diffuses that rather nasty human trait of pride. When we recognize that all we are and all we have did not originate in or with us, but is a gift from God, then how can we be anything but humble? This is not a humility of “woe is me, I’m a worm”, but a mindset, rather, of “I am blessed and God is the source of those blessings, so I get to steward them.” There is a confidence that comes there that is not related to pride, but of knowing one’s right place, as I talked about last week.
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TTT 34.2 – Wayland Rolls New Screen Tearing Protocol
Wait? What? Wayland doesn’t do screen tearing as a point of pride, right? Well, not so fast. Sometimes, like in games or with drawing tablets, it may be necessary to allow screen tearing, or asynchronous page turning for the display in order to reduce latency. What’s that? Asynchronous Page Turning is a fancy way to say that the image on the display doesn’t have to be drawn all at the same time. The new protocol will not effect anything by default, even once it is installed. The goal, of course, is to phase that protocol back out eventually, but maintain the input latency reduction that it provides. It will take time to get that done, though. So hang tight, and unless you are playing FPS games or doing significant digital painting/drawing/art with your Linux machine, and running Wayland rather than XOrg for your display server.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Tearing-Control-Proto
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TTT 34.3 – Tinkerer? There’s a New Orange Pi SBC Available Now
OrangePi 5 is now available, with a major performance boost vs its predecessor the OPi 4 LTS, and will eventually offer 16 and 32 GB memory versions. The base model ships with 4 GB, and the boast that it is 4x faster for CPU tasks than its predecessor, and 8x faster for rasterized graphics, enough to drive a 8k display, smoothly playing videos. Wow. It also has plenty of I/O options, in the form of PCIe m.2 support, HDMI output, GPIO interface, Type-C, Gigabit LAN port, 2xUSB 2.0, and 1xUSB 3.0. There’s also an onboard microphone, and a 26-pin header. The struggle here, though, is that it isn’t as broadly Linux-compatible as the RPi devices are. It only runs the house-built Orange Pi OS (Droid), Android 12, and Debian 11.
After pre-sale, it will start at $75 for the base model

https://linuxiac.com/orange-pi-5-sbc-is-available-for-pre-order-prices-start-at-60/
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10 Things My Wife Thinks You Should Know about Tech Freedom.

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