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flynnguy

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  • After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

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  • The only thing windows has for it is compatibility with certain software. Fortunately this gets better and better all the time, being able to run windows software under Linux has been great. Steam with it's proton has done wonders for gaming under Linux.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • I have a kindle that I've had for ages. It has been jailbroken for a while and I've been loading my own epubs onto it. They make it easy with the 1 click send to kindle stuff but that locks you in to their ecosystem.

  • Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes The EV We Want

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  • This is cool but I think the reason Ford isn't selling many trucks is because they are expensive. And this at $95k... cool but too expensive for me. I realize batteries are expensive but they need to start making cheaper EVs. Not everyone can afford a luxury car/truck and the Lightning, while cool, is definitely a luxury truck.

  • I love password based login

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  • Email is considered insecure as a 2nd factor. TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. Usually you store a seed and that combined with the time generates a time based password. If someone intercepts it, it's only valid for a certain time frame (I think about a minute or so), after which it's invalid.

  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • Some can be very big if they include pictures. (like cookbooks)

    However, yes.... if it's just say a fiction book with no pictures, they are kilobytes in size.

  • Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register

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  • There is an experimental Wayland for Mint... on the login screen there is an icon in the upper right. Clicking that allows you to select the experimental Wayland version or X11... there's one other but I forget what it is at the moment. So it is possible to run Mint and Wayland, just not recommended.

  • Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - The Register

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  • I mean, if you are recycling devices that others would have thrown away, I'd say you are not wasteful at all.

  • DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors

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  • Mine goes up automatically and if it encounters resistance, it goes back down again. I guess this is too hard for Tesla.

  • Linux Slicer

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  • I use Orca Slicer all the time on my Debian machine. Works great!

  • Where do you guys buy your 3D print and such at?

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  • Pretty much all the functional models I use are free. I get them from https://www.printables.com/ https://makerworld.com/ https://www.thingiverse.com/ https://thangs.com/ or I design them myself. Back when I was on Mac I would use Fusion but lately I've been 100% Linux so I've been using FreeCAD and it's way better since v1.0.

    As far as paid models, it's mostly been things from https://www.myminifactory.com/ and generally sculpts because I want to support authors. Sometimes it's through patreon but they usually send myminifactory links to redeem.

    But yeah, get yourself a pair of calipers and learn a CAD program.

  • Are advent wreaths a thing outside of Germany?

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  • In the northeast US, we have both advent wreaths and advent calendars. The "wreath" we had growing up was metal but made to look like a wreath. (Probably because a wreath is a fire hazard)

    I don't see a lot of wreath's anymore but advent calendars are still popular.

  • What is your development environment?

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  • Linux (Debian) with neovim. Telescope and Treesitter and the big plugins I use but I use a bunch of other smaller ones as well.

    At my last job I did a bunch of Rust, this job I do mostly Go.

  • 3D design software for 3d printing?

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  • I've been down this rabbit hole and have some thoughts. Personally I've been trying to stick to Linux which makes things harder but since you have Mac and/or Windows, you have more options.

    First, my main app I use (and why my laptop is still dual boot) is Fusion 360. I have a hobbyist license so it's free with some limitation that don't really matter. It doesn't work great on linux (I've gotten it to run with WINE but it seems to crash and not run great) so I've been looking at alternatives. However, it works great and will do pretty much whatever you want. Also works well with CNC if you want to branch out into that.

    Lately I've started looking at https://www.onshape.com/en/ as it's all browser based. The free version means nothing is private but because it's browser based, it works with Linux. I've just played around with it once but it looks promising.

    I really want to like FreeCAD but it's been confusing to me when I've tried to use it in the past. I think I just need to sit down and watch a view videos and read the docs to learn it. I've heard good things about it after it hit 1.0 so maybe I need to revisit it. I feel like this will be best to learn long term.

    https://openscad.org/ isn't your standard CAD program but it can be really powerful. I've used it a few times but you need to think of your models programmatically and I've found this to be difficult for some applications. It's really cool though and worth checking out.

    I've found TinkerCAD to be ok for simple things but it seems a bit simplistic for the things I've been trying to do.

  • Want some advice on which filaments to use

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  • I almost exclusively use PLA and I've had no trouble but all my stuff is indoors. I've heard that it doesn't do as well in the elements so for anything outside, I'l probably look at using petg which from what I've read, holds up pretty well outside.

  • Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working?

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  • I have an ender 5 which I've had to do all sorts of things to. I've also had terrible luck getting z-probes to work with it. They'll work for a while and then just die on me...

    A while ago I backed the Phrozen Arco on Kickstarter. It was a mess of a compaign but I eventually got the printer (Over a year and a half late). However it's just worked and makes nicer prints than my ender 5. I love it so much. My makerspace has a Bambu which seems to have the same results. I love just printing something and having it work and not having to fuck with the printer. It's been so nice.

  • Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it?

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  • I've tried it a few different ways and the best outcome I've had was using some tubing, like this one: https://youtu.be/yuZ0DA8w9XI

    I don't always do it but when I do, I do it this way from now on. The tube makes sure the filament stays aligned, I also cut the two ends at a 45 and try and join them up inside the tube. Usually I'll save the ends and then do a few rolls at once, can usually get another few prints out of it.

  • Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS Sales Plummet

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  • I've been running TrueNAS since it was called FreeNAS and I've been happy with it.

  • My Experience Switching to Linux

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  • Yeah, I actually just started looking at running windows in a containet on Linux and then using RDP, hopefully I'll get a chance to play with it this week.... would let me run windows things without rebooting!

  • My Experience Switching to Linux

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  • Yeah, I've tried it and it kindof worked last I tried. I had an issue where the browser in the upper left just wouldn't expand and it keeps giving me warnings about direct x expiring. I was hoping to use it but I don't know if Fusion on Wine is really ready for prime time. :(

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    flynnguy @programming.dev

    My Experience Switching to Linux