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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Sep-2021 23:57:47 EDT lnxw48a1
   Installing #DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
   
   I dislike some of their defaults already:
   1. Expects an Ethernet connection. To autostart Wi-Fi, you have to edit a couple of files (one to enable #Wi-Fi and disable #Ethernet, one to enter your Wi-Fi logon information). It should accept either connection by default and use a "wifi-config" program to set up the connection.
   2. Defaults to hostname 'dietpi' instead of having you name your device as part of setup.
   3. Apparently, 'root' and 'dietpi' users exist with same password ('dietpi') ... the change password step of the setup appears to give both accounts the same password.
   4. This is common among nearly every GNU+Linux distro these days: I want my systems to use UTC timezone ... but where most distros use a 'locale' setting to set a local timezone, DietPi assumes I'm in London. It chose BST as the timezone.
   
   The good.
   1. There doesn't seem to be a lot of unnecessary junk installed. I'm using a 16GB microSD card, so I don't want anything that isn't needed for the chosen task.
   2. Uses #Raspian / Raspberry Pi OS and #Debian repos along with its own, so most of what I might want to install is available.
   3. DietPi-Survey is disabled by default.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Sep-2021 14:25:21 EDT lnxw48a1

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      Setting up the #RPi_Zero for BOINC was easy. It has a single ARMv6 core and 512M of RAM. In the Win9X days, this would have been good enough for your daily desktop machine.
      
      First work-unit (Einstein @ Home) errored out quickly, but the next one (Yoyo / Distributed dot net) has been chugging along for twelve hours.
      
      Temperature is 55C / 132F, versus the #XU4’s 63-81C / 145-178F. (The #Odroid XU4 just hit two days of uptime for the first time in this project.) Planning to repurpose the XU4 after its next freeze up. I’m hoping it chews through some work-units first.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Sep-2021 14:02:12 EDT lnxw48a1

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         Both Zeroes are working ... they seem to error out on Einstein @ Home tasks, but they are doing well (if slowly) on Yoyo / Distributed dot net tasks.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Sep-2021 14:06:22 EDT lnxw48a1

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      Hostname and timezone presets are in the dietpi.txt file. Also keyboard.
      
      I'd still rather have all those things being set during actual set up.