The thing is: 3D printing problems are often more manufacturer agnostic than you think - especially for new users.Especially for troubleshooting the broader approach is worth it - it's better a new user gets some help and support from someone with a similar setup but different manufacturer but no or no timely support by a small or almost empty community. Sadly Lemmy atm isn't that big.
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Yeah, I got mine before it got as bad....
The issue with that is the fact that we already barely have enough users for the existing 3d printing communities.
Splitting it up more will not help but only generate empty communities with barely any content and traffic.
Mint is often "slow" in the adoption of things. It has its benefits,as this makes it fairly stable. But it also has its drawbacks - hardware support is a hit or miss, especially with newer hardware (it either works out of the box or you are screwed for years), has still not adopted wayland fully and will likely not be there before Mint23(2026).
That is all fine and dandy if you can live with that. If it works and does what you need it to do you will have very little issues with it. That's what once set Mint apart, it simply worked when others did not and was bloody easy to set up.
Nowadays that's no longer something other distributions don't manage to do. I have recently switched my family and company to fedora(and some Alma/Rhel VMs on my Proxmox cluster) from Windows and tbh: It was as smooth as fuck and as smooth as Mint is, but has a lot of advantages in terms of "up-to-dateness" of a lot of things. (And KDE Plasma is indeed nice)
(We only have two issues that are more KDE based and less Fedora based and that are already being addressed - and only apply to domain networks)
There are other Debian based distributions that are similar as well.
In other words: Mint has, in my eyes, lost it's unique selling point a bit over the last years. Even my most "tech illiterate" employee found herself "at home" in Fedora (as she would have done in Mint), something that was not the case when she trialed Linux 4 years ago.
So in the end: If you are happy with Mint,go with Mint. Be aware of the downsides. If they don't bother you then it's perfect. If it does, well,there are alternatives.
Not totally correct, the 200 number does assume that you have a mix of genetics and the average numbers of genetic diseases. There are models that show that populations that have been isolated long enough to basically "outlive/outgrow" most genetic diseases in their population they need lower numbers (which has been the case for some indigenous communities in Australia, Papua and is likely the case for some in the Amazonas - and the Sentinelese).
We don't know if that is the case,but it might be. We simply don't know.
If you mainly game: Nobara (and I get less and less convinced of that - Fedora original is almost as good by now) If you mainly work on it: Fedora.
If you need broad support: Ubuntu. Sadly. But read up on the drawbacks.
Mint has so many drawbacks these days and so few advantages that I wouldn't recommend it anymore.
Sadly.
Tbh, the Bambu Lab service is as awful.
My personal favourite was them demanding a photo to prove I was not delivered my order fully. Six weeks after it arrived.
The part missing was a 23g replacement part....
Sure...
Yeah. Came here to write that. It was meant for the Pubic symphysis amongst others. Well, think about the structures you hit cutting there.
Yes. The structure they forgot to fully put into anatomy books until recently. Amongst others.
In other words: it would cut right through the inner part of the clitoris when used as intended.
Tbh, it's not the worst thing when a service does that. There are cases where it is indicated - cartels, CSAM, etc. do not deserve a safe haven. The bad part about the France issue is the fact that the Swiss court system willfully allowed a case that was not per se illegal in Switzerland and had rather controversial legal grounds in France to proceed. This is very similar to the cases where Switzerland simply ignored their own laws under pressure from the US government in terms of bank accounts 15 years earlier.
This is rather concerning and many Swiss legal experts did not share the opinion of Proton that there was nothing Proton could have done.
And this is somehow better?
There is a lot of room between "BigTech" and "Joe Average" doing it for his neighbours. Mailbox.org, etc. (see my other post here)
Yeah,big US tech is cancer - but I am fortunate enough to not live in the US and there are enough mid size companies that fall under reasonable laws and governmental oversight (in the good way,not the bad way) that I can choose from. People always seem to think it's "selfhost or big tech" but there is a shitton of solutions between them.
Mailbox.org, Infomaniak(but I would be cautious on them due to the changing legal framework), posteo,Mullvad,Photoprism,Passbolt,Hetzner Storage Space,Ionos, Deepl, etc. are all a sane middle ground for most people and
I much rather have people do that than fall into the arms of their neighbourhood asshole (and let's face it,there are a lot of difficult characters in IT). Because first of all it's people's lives who are at stake - You can wait for the first creep who will use access to his neighbours photos (Immich,Photoprism,etc.) for some uncanny purposes. Who will use the WiFi&Device passwords saved to get access to someones CCTV system to spy on his neighbours. Etc. Etc. And, and this is as much of an issue,it will only take a few of these people to drive people away from all open source products, right back into BigTech.
Lastly: It's okay,that you see it that way. But people need to be informed that these are the risks. If you would take those risks (and don't think from an IT role but from your neighbours perspective here), go for it. I wouldn't, we can absolutely agree to disagree. And I don't think many would once someone tells them the truth: "Yeah, BigTech can absolutely access your files and possibly your passwords with enough efforts. If you let Joe over here host your files and passwords he can,but BigTech can't." I am not sure how people would decide.
Yeah. And I am sure you won't do anything bad.
But we all know how many that will not be the case. There were countless cases of school IT staff being malicious, of healthcare IT staff being malicious. Do you think that won't be happening regularly on a small community scale? And that goes both ways: What happens when your neighbour suddenly accuses you of stealing passwords from you?
Don't get me wrong - I am also providing services to my friends and family. But I absolutely do refuse to do so for any vital or financially debilitating services (which I consider vaultwarden for example). And I am seeing large issues with promoting this model as a solution - which need to be addressed.
Lol. So we trust local governments and communities now?
Has anyone ever worked with them IT wise?
I do so in four different EU countries and know people who do in the US and Canada. And...well...there is a reason local governments often went towards the cloud services. Do people think Joe Admin in Bumfucknowhere can operate what basically becomes a MiniDC? And who controls that?
Sorry. Either go "host at home" and only fuck up things for oneself. Or do it properly with a proper DC. Colocate if you want. But that? I know it sounds appealing, especially for someone entering selfhosting (like the author did a few weeks ago). But there is a reason hosting is a business once it comes to other peoples data.
Switzerland never had solid privacy laws - and is known for intelligence service overreach for decades.
They had a Stasi like system of "who to imprison" when "the time comes".
They listen to all IP traffic in and out the country - which is concerning in times of traffic pattern analysis. And they are known for their close cooperation with US intelligence services.
Protons (and Threemas) claim of "soo good swiss privacy laws" is nothing more than swiss-washing. And they know it.
Proton has already given away data of its customers (climate activists) to the swiss authorities. And only talked about it when the press got onto it.
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
I am currently open for any software solution, that's why I came here.
I have moved so often,that my wife more or less demanded that my wedding vowels include that we never will move without a professional company again. And I don't mean "within the same city". Multiple countries around the world, 17.000km are the furthest in one step, in total close to 100k km. Once intercontinental mere months after a life altering injury and only weeks since the last hospital stay(bonus: Wife was preggo as well and suffering a lot). So I have some experience with being unanchored and getting it back on track under hard conditions.
First and foremost: Take it slow.
Getting your life "back on track" is a marathon,not a sprint.
Surviving everyday life is already hard enough and the extra effort for"getting back on track" isn't possible every day. That's simply unrealistic. Especially in the beginning everything is often so improvised that it needs extra effort which in turn then leads to less energy to actually fix things. That's normal. We are all human.
Next important point: Don't make a big concept. IT.WONT.WORK. Planning ahead massively and have one big plan how you want to organise everything, do this and that,etc. just costs you time,sometimes money and a lot of energy. And by the time you arrive at step XY the circumstances have changed and you need to redo everything. Or not. You will never fulfill such a plan fully - and that can often drain motivation to actually do things from one.
Another one: Little organisation, little steps, little successes. I love Kanban boards for that. Make a "Small plan". "organising the cable drawers" is currently on mine. "Buy bins" "Print Labels for USB-C cables","Enter cables into snipeit" are tasks on it. It doesn't take much to enter these, each task is small enough to be done in half an hour. And it gives you a good sense of accomplishment - you visually see that you have moved two or three tasks in the "Finished" row. Yay! Dopamine!
Lastly: Use tools. Especially when you have a lot of "small stuff". Homebox, Snipeit,Grocy or a simple Excel/LibreCalc Spreadsheet. It doesn't matter. But it helps. But stay realistic. Will you really scan all the food items in your fridge all the time from now on? Rather unlikely. But maybe the rarely used cans in a hiden corner or the emergency supply things should be. Same goes for cables and stuff.
You can do it.
Yeah, that would be ideal,but the issue is that I need a photo management software that exports the metadata and imports it - this is the main issue. Otherwise things would be far easier.
I am using it and tbh didn't have too many issues with it. It runs as a LXC on my Proxmox server.
With that it's a fairly comfortable setup - it does have API access on the proxmox node and therefore automatically discovers all LXCs,even the ones you add after the installation.
For other machines I use a fairly easy bash script to download the agent 2 and then overwrite the config file with the right parameters,but that's just me being lazy - it's not that much work doing it by hand as well.
And for everything else there is always SNMP which is fairly well supported and there are tons of templates nowadays.
Tbh, I had Prometheus/Grafana before and found it to be much more complicated, especially when you need active and passive nodes. The fact that Zabbix is "All in one" is fairly nice sometimes.
Dashboards are a bit lacking behind Grafana at times,but I can live with that.