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JustEnoughDucks

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  • Rate my one year old homelab.

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  • Some drives are worse than others and higher capacities get worse and worse, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

    If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

    But, having an ssd is cheaper probably. I have an SSD for the boot drive and all databases, configuration folders, etc... In docker so general IO is fast, then media, documents, pictures, etc... On the big HDDs.

  • My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...

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  • KNX.

    Everything is decentrally programmed, and you can do extra automations and stuff from home assistant, but KNX devices are wired (generally) and will always Just Work™. More expensive that the cheaper retrofit options, but if you factor in manual overrides or getting the "better" wireless smart devices it is comparable. They generally also have a manual override at the panel. For core functions like lights, HVAC, roll shutters or blinds, etc... That is honestly the best option (unless you want every light to be an RGB light for some reason, then you still need smart bulbs)

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • If you ever need a language buddy, let me know.

    There is also a Learn Dutch discord that is fairly active.

    Duolingo sucks ass for learning languages. Dutchpod101 is pretty good, but the best is a combination of dutch books + listening like dhtchpod101 or some simple news podcasts or so.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • Maybe people have gotten Saned for network scanning working on other things than bazzite, but I can't figure it out and the discord is never helpful.

    But document signing is a technical limitation caused by flatpak. You can technically do it by installing your entire office and authentication suite on a rooted distrobox, but then that is defeating a fair amount of the point of ease of use and sandboxing. I haven't tested that though so even that might have some bugs or not work.

    There are but trackers on different upstream flatpak software for it like Firefox, but it has been completely dead for 5 years with no plans on looking at it.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • Bazzite or an immutable if you do gaming and don't need a lot of special functionality (e.g. network scanning doesn't work, document signing doesn't work and will never work, managing gpg keys, embedded firmware development, Belgian EID, etc...)

    Mint if you don't have a brand new system and just want an easy experience.

    Arch if you want all niche software to simply be available through the package manager and never have to find rpm/deb packages.

    Debian for a server (or maybe opensuse MicroOS nowadays)

    Opensuse if you really want an EU OS or something very integrated with a snapshot system.

    And of course, Hannah Montana Linux if you are enlightened.

  • Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts

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  • You can also look at the MKBHD 2024 smartphone camera comparison test with the FP5. I would suggest taking the test yourself if that is still possible.

    I would guess that the camera will be comparable. (Everything below if FP5 assuming about the same performance with the FP6)

    For me, daylight pics were after all of the pixels but before anything else. I like the more neutral not supremely over-saturated over-sharpened/smoothed pictures that many phones take nowadays.

    For me, it was middle of the pack for dimly lit photos.

    For the overall ELO with everyone, FP5 was on the mid-lower end (of a comparison of all flagships + pixel A series), but perfectly usable for people who aren't doing social media as a job.

  • What's the best distro for a windows user with some linux experience

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  • Except network scanning is the furthest thing from "just works" on atomic fedora based distros. That is an essential usecase for many or most people.

    I like fedora atomic and I run bazzite, but can't break is quite different than "just works" in my opinion.

  • Encrypting without full disk encryption question

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  • This is similar to what I do.

    I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.

    Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.

  • Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings

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  • For the low low price of 50€ for a 30g part!

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • I would be interested in how things like MATLAB and octave compare to R and python. But I guess it doesn't matter as much because the relative time of those being run in a data analysis or research context is probably relatively low compared to production code.

  • LibrePCB is a free, cross-platform, easy-to-use electronic design automation suite

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  • True, but I have never seen an ECAD software that has implemented that because that opens up a whole other can of buggy worms of intentionally trying to connect nets and guessing the intention of the user. When do you push the net and when do you merge the net? Does dragging a net label connected to a net to intentionally attach it to a second net to connect the two not work due to pushing? When do you decide when dragging a net is an intentional connection vs not during the drag? When you drag a component, do all nets and connected components get dragged with it or do they push each other into a jumbled mess of traces jumping over each other like what sometimes happens with push behavior in layout routing? I think it is a pretty difficult problem to solve.

    That's why I personally like KiCAD's choice just to not pull nets with component moving, but to each their own.

  • LibrePCB is a free, cross-platform, easy-to-use electronic design automation suite

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  • Nope, I mean in schematics. You can absolutely short two lines together. It will just silently merge them into a single net so it won't show up in ERC. If you have an IC with 8 pins on each schematic symbol side in altium and drag the component one unit down, 7 and 7 pins will be shorted together (as an example) silently and become two nets.

    As far as footprints:

    You don't technically need to, but altium's spaghetti code makes things break so often and my company had some troubles with that so they recommend making a duplicate every time.

    Not to mention that searching for the correct footprint is accomplished 3 different ways and each way is partially or fully broken so you pretty much need the exact sequential footprint symbol number to sort and scroll all the way to find it. It is horrific. No organization at all.

  • LibrePCB is a free, cross-platform, easy-to-use electronic design automation suite

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  • That is true.

    However, the alternative is altium behavior where it drags all of the wire connections with you, so if you move anything attached to an IC or the IC itself, you get dozens of shorts immediately.

    They both have pros and cons. I actually prefer kicad's way because it will never lead to unintended un-ERC-discoverable shorts.

    I have used both KiCAD and Altium regularly for years and there are many things that KiCAD simply does better but it is missing a ton of QoL things.

    The one thing that I don't like about KiCAD is that some shortcuts don't have an alternative right click or toolbar menu item, which makes them undiscoverable unless you browse shortcuts.

    I really like librePCBs approach to library management. Multiple pinouts for schematic symbols (meaning a BGA and QFN can have the same library item) and the categorization.

    Though I can't tell if they have reusable footprints and are able to simply reference them to a schematic symbol which is one of the nice things in KiCAD over altium

  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • Bitwarden

  • Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??

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  • Does the 2.4 have auto z calibration? That is what really makes a "set and forget" machine when you switch nozzle sizes and such and it with auto adjust.

    With my prusa MK3, I calibrate the z offset every time I switch filaments and recalibrate every time I switch nozzles which takes a lot of active time.

  • Is windows even an os anymore?

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  • My company switched over to it to use with sharepoint for our quality system instead of synology because all files need to be tracked and we were already integrated with Microsoft every other way. That was two months ago.

    Since then, multiple people have come forward with problems about syncing documents.

    I, myself had multiple times already in this short time where I would make changes to a file, save it, one drive would sync and tell me the changes were pushed, colleagues got the previous version while their one drives told them everything was synced, and then I had to open my version again from the Onedrive folder to see that it was the new version, manually save it again, and then manually pause and resume syncing, then FINALLY it would push the changes.

    It isn't common, but when you have hundreds of thousands of files and there is a 0.1% chance that it silently fails syncing some files with absolutely no indication, even in the admin logs, that happens many many times

  • Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

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  • Fair, but very very very often (unless you are a full time daily user of the commandlet and all objects you may run into or have a photographic memory) you don't know the actual specific property or object exact verbatim and have to rely on a very quick search to remember that one object you used 3 months ago once that you need now for example. Or you want to see where/if something is referenced in another subset of programs like a specific IP, another program, a resource taken up, etc...

    That is mostly what grep is used for: discovery and reference, which powershell I don't think has a substitute for so instead you have to sort through documentation and forums.

  • Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

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  • No grep though as far as I could find... There was a similar cmdlet IIRC, but it was extremely limited and didn't work well (this was years ago though)

  • Self Hosted Trello with experience?

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  • There is also leantime.io that I have been hosting for 5 years or so. It is a bit more than planka or tarallo as far as scope I think, but it has integrated kanban, gannt charts, and hour logging which is all I need for my personal projects.

  • Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend

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  • It's funny because everything you describe is exactly the problems my company had with all of our laptops on windows 11 and not linux, every single one has been reported dozens of times with windows 11, especially on 24h2.

    Plus additional like installing printer drivers smashing Microsoft office fonts together, teams in a restart loop because an update changed a registry value that is just plain broken, even a problem where windows secretly and silently mutes the microphone, but says literally everywhere that it is enabled and unmuted such that you have to use the audio troubleshooter to unmute it (and now that doesn't work because they replaced the audio troubleshooter with a shitty LLM that literally only checks if there are drivers installed).

    Laptops not going to sleep when you close them is also like the #1 issue on all windows forums because of stupid fucking modern sleep that you can't disable.