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Last friday got first time a sudden need to make a mask on my face. Did it and put my steampunk outfit on and headed to Helsinki night to write with my loyal companion Nokia Booklet 3G, the best writing laptop there is.

Went to a bar and started to write. A very good looking young lady started to chat with me. After a while she asked my age. I gave her an old passport I had found from a second hand shop. I introduced myself: "Karl Verner Garllson - late". The guy was born in 1894. The lady gave the passport to her friend. She thought she would blow my cover and started to ask questions about my info according to passport. I had just took that passport for first time with me and because I had thought it would be funny if someone would ask for a passport - I had memorized on a bus the information: date of birth, education, marriage etc. She was pissed of when she gave the passport back.

I went for a cigarret outside and as I usually do I asked from a random guy there his education and what is his job (at this time I had already forgot how I look). He challenged me to guess. A small winter cap, beard, collar set loosely around neck, long green army type jacket: software developer? Correct. He was a bit annoyed for me guessing right.

I pulled my N900 from a pocket and said I like linux. He said what a coincident. He works for big it-firm which they have brought to Finland and a finnish guy working for them have been leading developers for maemo. I advertized Leste and urged this guy to make his workmate to help with the closed source stuff. I said it is in no way a dead Os. Later thought that my outfit was maybe not in accord with my words. Hope he spreads the message though.

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First LOL of the day. Thanks!

And thanks again for spreading the word!

Can't say I got much out of Halloween; I tend to ignore it as much as possible.
It's amusing to talk to kindergarten kids about blood & monsters and get giggles in return.
Got some of that orange chocolate, but it wasn't very good.

BTW, you missed the most important part: what happened to you & the two ladies (one of them good-looking)? Let me guess: you dropped it because exchanging Nokia/Linux talk with another nerd was more important?

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Married for 21 years and been loyal all that time. Have thought to stay that way. So yes, talking with nerds usually lasts longer than with pretty ladies. Unless pretty lady is more than just pretty. Sometimes have had very long talks with some, and the best is to get an argue about some subject.

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Ah. I didn't even consider this possibility.
Says something about me, I guess.

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If you would like to experience an LSD trip but you do not wan't to use any substances and do not wan't to lose the illusion that you are in control of your life - I have an option for you: Redi Mall in Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland.

It is quite easy to get this trip. You take a metro/subway to Kalasatama station and right through the doors and you are in. To those who wonder if they know how to choose the right metro rail - in Finland we have one metro, which is in Helsinki, the capital city, and it is only one line. Well yes, you go other track to the other direction and the other to opposite direction, but it should be quite easy. In the other end it though separates to to possible end station, but that is way before Kalasatama station, so you don't need to bother yourself with that.

When you get inside the Redi Mall - walk anywhere and you are in a rabbit hole trip. For the architecture they have taken inspiration probably from the digestal inner parts of different creatures for different floor. Corridors roofs are low, there is no straight wievs, there are big round and square pillars as obstacles for you to see where you are going, pillars which some are straight many are not but looks like they are just thrown there, like the design program had some bugs in it.

So the architecture from the bird wiev is a digestal system, but each floow has its' own architecture. So if you find elevator or some kind of transportation to the next floor (the maps I got there lacked all stairs and stuff, only paid guides which were helping people had them in their maps but they were not aloud to give them to people), you don't know without a map how the corridors go there merry go round.

I have to warn you: it is a bad trip. I haven't heard yet anyone to say it was a good trip to Redi. But it is free (well the one way metro ticket and back with ambulance, water and food suplies you need to stay alive there while trying to figure your way around there and very soon out of there, plus the possible medical costs or psychiatric counsel and drugs) and you have the illusion that you are in control.

But there you are: LSD trip without substances in Finland.

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That reminds me of the metro line in Oslo. We stayed in a hotel, let's call it Place A and went for a dinner to Place B. On the way back we got confused which train to take to get back and ended up splitting the group: some of us took the eastbound train, others westbound. We all ended up back at Place A nearly at the same time.

That's because the line makes a loop around the town centre:

http://www.mappery.com/maps/Oslo-Metro-Map.jpg

(In case you are curious, our destination was Nydalen.)

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^ yes, the line 4/6 has clearly been created to confuse the hell out of tourists!

I haven't been yet, and I have no intentions to.
I find Iso Omena horrible enough.
Same labyrinth tactics (pass as many shops as possible to get from A to B).
BTW, it's called a mall - a marketplace would be e.g. kauppatori (also quite a bad trip esp. in summer).

I love your usage of "other" here, such a literal translation of "toinen".
(In English and other languages you would say "the one track and the other track" or something along those lines.)
Used to confuse me a lot when Finns said "The other" when there hadn't been a first before that. To the point that a friend told me the story of Kekkonen and "toinen tohelo", which nicely illustrates the usage of the word. ;)

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Thanks nonsuch for corrections. Changed it to Redi Mall. Didn't change any other track related stuff 'cause there was nonsuch errors which would have annoyed me enough.

When I was interrailing in Europe -95 I went to Berlin to visit two girls which I got to know in a Rainbow Gathering in Czechy.Borrowed them a bicycle and went to Potsdam area to see the houses. Came back in the evening and was driving the right street untill I noticed the name was wrong. Where did I make a wrong turn? Went back and suddenly I was again on the right street. Went back and forth a while before understood the street name was changed in one spot.

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I think this sort of stuff was fairly common in the old East during the first years after "Wiedervereinigung".
Whole towns changed names.

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And here we go again. After I had been on a sick leave for three weeks because I ended up in a panic disorder state (which I got out after three weeks) I decided to prevent me from ending there again. I packed 8 banana boxes with all my projects (pc, paintings, camera and photography, writings, etc. etc.) and took them to my parents storage. Phew. That was that. I was so relieved.

But then they put this big container for electricity waste on our yard. The first laptop I found (Lenovo Ideapad which did not boot up even after hard resets etc.) gave me 128Gb ssd and 4Gb ram stick. The second one I found was Samsung 940x. No ssd installed but found one of my Ubuntu Mate installatios Usb stick and that machine is fast! Not having money now to either buying an ssd or sdcard (thought that Tails on sdcard could be good with this one).

Then there was two backs of wires. After I had sorted out the ones I think I can use I noticed a phone. Pixi3 4.5 4G model. Made a factory reset and charged it full and it works. But could I install LineageOs on it? Yes! 14.1 should work. So how to do it? I have only once rooted one very difficult phone and that was some years ago and because it was so painfull process my mind has pressed that to oblivion.

First to root. Well here is a nice oneclickroot apk. Nice! Install and check and yes, I got confirmation my phone can be rooted. But have to subscribe. I don't want to. Uninstalling oneclick.

But what about kingoroot apk. Installing. Root. Unable. Aargh. Uninstall kingo.

But are there other oneclicks? Yes, xda developer forum suggests many. Framaroot. Site not working or something. Root Master. An advertisement site. Aargh.

Ok. I install oneclick on pc. Doesn't recognize device. Manual check and no, not root for my 5017x model. Well I install kingoroot on my pc. Kaspersky things not. After stopping three different adawares my russian friend decides to delete the whole installation file from my machine. I accept.

So here I am. Wanting to get LineageOs to a crappy old android phone which I won't probably even use but just can't leave it. I wan't to try that Lineage and it can't be that difficult! I remember that last time I downloaded Android SDK tools or ADB or something and installed twrp or something and connected usb and got supersu and root access. Now I just can't find easy enough instruction to complete this procedure.

So... if there is someone who tries to spread LineageOs to the world and you like challenges - here I am. Alone in this cruel world which seems to mock me. Without getting a hit from managing to win this stupid crappy phone. If there is a very easy step by step guide - I didn't find it. I searched. Android. Maybe we just have to depart and maybe you just have to end up to the same place where I rescued you from. If you do not want to be saved - fine.

Edit: Decided to still try. found really good instructuions from xda forum for this phone. Very detailed and links to all things you need to download. Clicked the first link and ended up to endless advertisement site which you can't get back.

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Honestly Maemish...
It isn't worth it ...
Concerning ...well...everyrhing.

Firstly...nothing is worth missing 3 weeks of one's life.
You need to chillax .
Forget fancy exotic methods of attaining and maintaining your calm.
Anything that needs a special environment or accessories or the need to go elsewhere...is impractical for your needs.
That is as specific as I will get considering the lack of info concerning what brought you to your 3 week hiatus.

Next ...
It still isn't worth it...
I have the exact same model pixi ..
And I have messed with flashing different ROMs on it...
Firstly it is a cheap phone.
Second ..it had scant community support...
Thirdly ...resulting in the issues you now find yourself impeded by.
.

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Dropped that project and tried the other I found today: Samsung 940x notebook. Thought of installing linux on it 13,3" screen + 3200x1800 + linux doesn't seem to be a good coctail. Can't really see anything cause everything is so small and no easy trick for scaling well on linux. Searched a lot. video="1240x768" was one answer, bigger font another, but really annoyed there is no true working solution for this machine. Anyone else had these problems? Any workarounds?

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3200 x 1800? Why???
3200 x 1800 on a 13" screen? Why???????

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Hmm i am running gnome (budgie) on 2880x1620 and have a setting to either scale the screen 1.5x or 2x?

"Works for me" though some apps, especially Java ones and sadly Gimp are ignoring the scaling and have super tiny menues :p

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I don't need it to be 3200x1800 but how to reduce resolution and scale it?

Can you tell me the files I need to configure/edit? Like is it /etc/default/grub and then add a video="resolution value here" or do I need to edit xorg.conf or check from there the right code for resolution and if I need to put the right value somewhere where would it be?

The screen monitor setting app gave in Lubuntu only this 3200x1800 and no other setting option. Is there some accessory plugin I can install (I think there was in some forum a mention about that kind but only for gnome desktop)?

Where you put that scale value?

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The only thing i can say with confidence is that the scaling is desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc) dependend and handled independently.

I have to correct myself already and just saw my Budgie (gnome based) only offers 2x scaling. 1.5x was "special" on KDE. Both offer it as setting in Display section.

Beyond that it is again about the right search terms. Resolutions above 1920x1080 are dubbed "HighDPI" nowadays for some wicked reason.
So a search for "Lubuntu HighDPI", reveals this tutorial as first result.

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On Kde there is a High Dpi setting, which helps in cases like that.

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Thanks Mosen for the link. New terminology for me. Mostly playing with less than 100mb ram pcs and this is not a problem with them. But now I noticed Lubuntu doesn't anymore fit to a 8gb sdcard so I have to wait for the next salary (unless I choose a smaller distro).

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nstalled minimal bodhi on 8gb sdcard and i had xrandr settings and it gave all possible resolutions and worked like a charm. Nice to find a workinhg solution. If I will buy some day an ssd for this machine I know it works.

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Essentially I'd say you need to change the DPI settings globally.
For such a small screen with such hi res it could be as much as double of the usual 96 I think.
Try this article.

And congrats on finding so much usable hardware. Never seizes to fascinate me, what people throw away. Reminds me to go searching myself, probably good pickings after christmas...

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Sorry, I did not mean it as anything to do with you. I can even see the point of such a resolution on 30" screens and above. I was just wondering about the merits of producing a laptop screen, let alone a 13 inch laptop screen, with such a resolution. Unless, of course, the answer is, "why not?" (which implies that it is no more expensive to produce than a more reasonable, smaller resolution).

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I think images and videos could look good with that resolution. But scaled it below 2000 and it works great with Bodhi. It was my neighbour which I know who had thrown the laptops away. While I was moving our stuffs to a new home there had came seven more laptops on the container. But now without harddrives or rams. He had noticed they vanish fast from the container. But after I asked he said I could probably get the weird thin ssd drive that goes to that Samsung 940x. I have all kinds of drives but not those weird ones. But seems like a good machine.

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L= Learning for life
I= Investigating problems
N= Never giving up
U= Unchallenged platform
X= Xorg.conf needs some mods

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you don't need to go to such extremes as "a smaller distro"...
I know I have mentioned it multiple times already.
Antix Linux.
Its been around for years...
its a solid, reputable distro with a large community..

"antiX should run on most computers, ranging from 192MB old PII systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes.
antiX-core and antiX-net will run with 128MB RAM plus swap, but don’t expect miracles!
192MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. 256MB RAM and above is preferred especially for antiX-full.
antiX-full needs a 5GB minimum hard disk size. antiX-base needs 3GB and antiX-core needs 1GB. antiX-net needs 0.7GB.

Instead of a heavy common Desktop Environment, antiX uses window managers to control what the end-user can see and do. We hope these FAQs will give you a basic orientation to antiX and its window managers, and provide the means to explore further on your own.
These window manager options come installed and ready to use in antiX-full and antiX-base:
the lightweight Rox-IceWM (default)
the lightweight IceWM
the lightweight SpaceFM-IceWM
the minimalist manager Rox-Fluxbox
the minimalist manager Fluxbox
the minimalist manager SpaceFM-Fluxbox
the very minimalist manager Rox-JWM
the very minimalist manager JWM.
the very minimalist manager SpaceFM-JWM.
You can switch by clicking on the menu -→ Desktop -→ Other Desktops,
All window managers can be run with or without the ROX or SpaceFM Desktop environment that provides drag-and-drop functionality or the Conky system monitor that displays real-time information.
antiX also comes with herbstluftwm, a manual tiling window manager.

antiX is a very flexible linux distribution. You can run it live from a cd, live from a usb stick (with persistence ie changes are saved on reboot) as well as setting up a frugal-install from an internal or external hard drive. Of course, you can install to internal and external drives, sticks, cards etc. You can even run it live, add/remove applications, customize it, remaster it and then install. All your changes will carry over to install!

antiX is based on Debian but is totally free of systemd! It comes with a custom kernel, its own custom scripts and repository to enhance user experience. antiX can be used as a rolling release distro ie you should be able to keep your applications up to date by regularly upgrading. If you wish you can enable the Debian testing or unstable repositories and live on the bleeding-edge! For those that prefer stability, keep to the Debian Stable/buster repositories.
A further feature of antiX is that you can install kernels from a variety of sources including Debian, siduction, aptosid and liquorix. This is especially useful if you have a new box as newer hardware is more likely to be detected and work with newer kernels.
antiX is also systemd free"

Personally...
I use it all the time...one of my fav's...
definitely a better option than lubuntu ..
bodhi is great..but can be persnickety..
I suggest ...yet again...antix...it will run on just about anything ..
its designed to...
without the compromising you would be doing in other distros..

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Well that was an advertisement! I tried to install antix on one of my machines a while ago but it didn't work. Just checked my installationd cds dvds and there it is, Antix. Maybe I need to give it another chance. But Bodhi (which I have refuted for a while) just worked with this machine I think I will stick with that. I have now FreeDos, Mint, Ubuntu Mate, Lubuntu and Bodhi on different machines. I think though that I will change Lubuntu maybe back to Skywave Linux. It has all the bells and whistles I have thought using that machine for - with Sdr-rtl receiver and an old foldable antenna. First I had the Subgraph Os on it but it is still in alpha release stage and a bit too difficult to get things work which I wan't.

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you may want to try the latest version of antix...since it is the latest...

also...
I am surprised you couldn't get an older version of antix running..

as far as my post seeming an advert...I simply copy / pasted their faqs.

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It was about a half year old. Maybe even newer. And it didn't matter was it your text or not. A real advertisement - that was my point. From one who truly believes. This is good - or even the best - buy it now!

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then it isn't version 19.

and no...what I posted was not an advert.
it was directly from antix faqs page.
nowhere does it state " This is good" or even "the best" " get it or buy it now"
(However good it is or maybe)

I bothered to post the faqs with its pertinent benefits on the likelihood that simply mentioning antix ...yet again...or simply providing a link to their site would really amount to nothing.
In the end, since you say antix doesn't work for you...it is all as useful as tits on a bull..
So just carry on with what works for you..

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Have you tried EliveOs? It is a one man's project. Pretty cool what he is doing.

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Ah, It seems to use enlightment as window manager, and no intergrated DE so no wonder it is cool :D:D
I used enlightment way back in 2001 or something. At that time it was really cutting edge and in truth it is pretty customisable beast indeed.

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I have tried Elive before... me not like... too much candy... Quite same feeling with Element... But nice work!

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Yes, the guy has a vision to give a WOW! effect when people install it to an older computer which they thought is of no use anymore. Quite well he has done so it works out of the box and many nice features and has taken a lot of bloatware of. But did not wan't to use it either in the end. Like to customize myself. But one guy and Elive has been for a long time and he still develops it more.

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elive is a decent "e" distro...
I used it years ago...
haven't for a long time now though...

I am on his mailing list..
I am just waiting for him to finally release a 64bit version...
32bit is a tragic waste of any of my comps hardware..

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I just hope there would be distros dedicated ONLY for 32bits. People throw so much pcs now away cause either distros or browsers drop out the support for 32bit. Very wary nice old computers which look much nicer and have a character. Laptop manufacturers have followed the same guidelines as car makers: First try what is best in windtunnel. Everything looks the same to have the lowest wind resistance. Now you customize your laptop with stickers so it stands out in the growd and you find it in the cafeteria or workplace.

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https://talk.maemo.org/maemo/style/img/top_bg.jpg

After in the other thread people posted their desktop screenshots I just had to fix mine. On the right upper corner weather report page with rain radar for the day and 10 days weather.

In the middle awesome notes app which I had missed.

On the left iceweasel with couple of sites bookmarked with saved password to kids school sites which do not work with any other browser.

Only most often used apps on the desktop and a calendar.

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And I just don't get it work that there would be one small full image which you can click to see it bigger.

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now that desktop is sharp.
nice

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Tried yesterday to run antix (it seems I have version 17 something on the dvd) on a laptop I dug out of dumbster yerterday. HP xn9010. Rams and wireless chip had been taken away but not the hdd cause the guy probably didn't find out how to remove it. A hidden screw underneath a rubber pad prevented it. Took a while from me too before understood to rip that rubber out of a deep whole. Antix could not load and adviced try console installation. I passed. Gonna maybe try Puppy on this one.

I had two 512ram modules (the maximum for this machine) and it booted on XP without password. What is nice with this machine is that it has 2,4 cpu and 1gb ram, pcmcia slot, floppy drive, infrared, dvddrive and two usb ports. A nice combo of things. I think this could work as an agent machine.

Also decided yesterday I will probably sell some of my projects away. I think compaq contura will have to leave (8mb ram) but I will still hold on to my Nokia Data MikroMikko 6 laptop with 4mb ram. Also will probably go a fulitsu machine with 96mb ram. And maybe this new one too. I think my Compaq Armada 1700 with awesome sound with reflect pipes on the speakers will stay as my working retro laptop. But it doesn't have the ball mouse which I like (on MikroMikko there is as well as on Contura).

I have wanted to make a retro gaming machine from some of these but now thinking that I will make it out of a pc I build inside an old 8mm reading machine which looks like a very very old TV. I took everything away from the machine, made it a bit less deep (it was like 60cm deep and made it to 30cm), placed a lcd screen in the place of the original and behind that stands a thin HP pc with maximum of 8gb ram. It has an aluminium folding front in the below on which I assembled a keyboard on the inside and behind that there is 2.1 speakers and a mouse in its own hole.

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Got flu and in bed. What to do? Hey I don't understand anything but would like to get Kolibri Os running in N900!

So how it should be done? I don't believe it would be able to launch with uboot and have never used that so that is a no go. But what about chroot? Could it launch in chroot? Well I don't know how it should be set up. There are these keybindings and screensizes and mouse/touchscreen stuff.

It would be easiest to get running in a VirtualMachine (like then you don't have any problems!). Is there such for N900? Google knows that - hey qole has instructions for Meego setup on chroot!

Let's see. Very detailed instructions and if I would change in all meego places Kolibri replicants could it work? Maybe but seems a bit complicated.

Was there something else in google? Bochs. Let's see what community says about it. TMO says it is slow, but that was probably without overclocking. So let's install that. Going to SourceForce download page and try to download and netsurf crashes. And micro-b fails to open. And Opera. And chromium 57 and Iceweasel both just wont do it and finally crashes. I have managed to download KolibriOs img so why not this!?!

I am sick and have been fighting with this in bed with my N900 for two hours now and nerves are gone, kaput. I am pretty sure that the latest bochs file I try to download would not install on Fremantle. But would like to try. And if not installing then trying in Easy Debbie.

And even if I would manage to install that bochs I am pretty sure I would not know how to make it launch KolibriOs. I found some instructions for freedos, so maybe if I would use those instructions it could be possible - or not. But I would like to try.

It would be so nice to start a thread KolibriOs on N900 and say: "Hey I just tried if this could be possible and it was and everything just worked".

Now nerves are gone, I would like to through N900 - no, myself - on the wall. Instead of watching a good movie and resting and eating something good I have pressed my brains with this something which would not even work even if I could manage to install what I try.

Love this device and love linux. Just trying to climb the tree form the wrong end is really hard and works only sometimes.

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Fennec didn't open sourceforge page either and dooble won'tlaunch at all cause I've messed the conf files and don't know how to recover it to default state.

But gave another try with Iceweasel and managed to download bosch!