So use a VPN, buy a 3d printer in another state, send it to a mail forwarding service?
Or buy a printer and install different firmware on it?
And maybe my understand of 3d printers is wrong, but a 3d printer itself doesn't know what it is printing, it only gets the gcode from the slicer. So if the slicer is what is being modified, then use an open slicer like OrcaSlicer?
So a nothing burger of massive proportion this looks like. Which will soon spread to California. Great...
Probably something there will give you the right push towards fixing your setup? Best of luck! I am actually going to be attempting this soon(gluetun+qbit), but with ProtonVPN.
For reference, the current estimated amount of desktop Linux users globally is somewhere between 60-80 million. In English-speaking countries, the total is around 19-20 million.
That sounds about right when comparing Microsoft's claim of "1 billion" Windows devices. 5% of a billion is 50 million(not a perfect comparison as 5% Linux is total including MacOS/others from statcounter but you get the idea). So 50 million to 100 million Linux users globally sounds about right.
Some OEMs with some models here in the USA also offer it. HP and Dell offer it. I think Dell gives Fedora and Ubuntu? And it takes off ~$130 USD or so from the price, so it's the full Windows license cost.
Personally if I have that option I'm taking it and just reinstalling whatever I want anyway, but it's nice having that option.
Also if I'm going to spend $2k+ on a new laptop and they don't give me a non-Windows/blank OS option then I'd go to support and request a special product link. Otherwise I'll find another brand or buy used.
GW2 gamer here too, I've been switching over to Linux over the past few months and this is on one of my to-do lists(figure out HUD/overlay software for GW2).
Another hurdle I've had is getting mod support. For example, Tale of Two Wastelands. The standard installer is exe only and it runs via proton but it doesn't use all CPU threads to decompile the game assets. Takes over a hour to do. Luckily someone was able to build something that fixes this for Linux, takes 10 minutes or so depending on your CPU: https://github.com/SulfurNitride/TTW_Linux_Installer
Going back through my github issues/comments, it was around May 2024 with the v1.105.0 release was my last attempt.
I'm happy to hear it is stable now, I'll probably give it a shot again here soon. Again, I loved the app and I was hosting it for friends/family to share photos of my kids, so it helped immensely with everyone collaborating with uploads(though mobile uploads for individual photos wasn't available at that time, had to direct people to use the website...).
To be fair I don't think I used the docker installation back then, so I'll probably make a stack for it this time around.
I've switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don't have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).
At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won't reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.
At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I'll switch to something else.
At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.
This is what we use Jira Service Management for at work(break/fix tickets), but Jira, the core software, is used for stuff like code development.
Not sure what use case OP has for Jira specifically, but I could see it being beneficial for a homelab where you're building out docker containers manually or tracking your own coding projects or you want an (overkill) way to do project management for your homelab.
I really want to use Immich but I've installed it 3 different times and each time an upgrade completely breaks my installation and I spend hours troubleshooting. And yes, I read the patch notes and do whatever changes they mark in bold red as a warning.
It's amazing when it works and they're doing a great job at adding features, but my God does it break if you just look at it wrong.
Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You'll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.
If you're not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.
Sorry I must have missed something, do you happen to have a PC game distribution platform that has even half the features Steam does and takes less than 30%?
It's all in moderation. Eating 8 or so eggs scrambled every morning probably isn't healthy for you either. But 2-3 eggs, some toast with decent butter, and some fruit is more sensible. Maybe swap it with yogurt and granola one morning.
Personally if I'm even hungry in the morning I go light and have plain toast, or I get a loaf of rosemary sourdough from the store and have that untoasted. If I'm hungry I do the yogurt combo.
My main pet peeve is cooking and eating for hours...I don't feel like cooking breakfast for 1-2 hours(pancakes from scratch, eggs, bacon, etc.) and then eat for another hour and now it's already lunch time and I still haven't cleaned up from breakfast.
If I do a "lumberjack" type of breakfast then I go out to eat because I ain't dealing with the kitchen for that lol.
US Mobile has access to their networks and it's cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.
Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.
People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we're in.
Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be "old hardware" in 5 years.
I'm still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.
That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it's nearly 10 years old and still works.
I'm not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but "old hardware" isn't some boogeyman and "we will eventually not have old computers" is like saying we'll never have old cars.
And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn't going to happen.
So use a VPN, buy a 3d printer in another state, send it to a mail forwarding service?
Or buy a printer and install different firmware on it?
And maybe my understand of 3d printers is wrong, but a 3d printer itself doesn't know what it is printing, it only gets the gcode from the slicer. So if the slicer is what is being modified, then use an open slicer like OrcaSlicer?
So a nothing burger of massive proportion this looks like. Which will soon spread to California. Great...