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  • Also with the excalidraw plugin, hand drawing images and such is also possible.

    It is not as good for flowcharts and diagrams since there are only like 5 non-specified font sizes, but also usable for notes

  • I listen to his podcast weekly. I haven't listened to the one from the OP, but in the past year I have become very disillusioned with Stewart.

    Every interview is an absolute softball "what's your favorite color" BS where each and every answer is a boot that is slobbered on with "BAM", and "BARS" and every misdirect and deflection by the guest is just accepted and the root of the few harder questions goes unanswered without protest outside of maybe the Christie interview.

    The Jeffries interview was absolutely embarrassing, for example.

    It's very different from Stewart 15+ years ago.

  • Money and time.

    Tons of people build cool projects during their time in university, but the vast vast majority of people don't because they are eating beans and rice and ramen and pizza and studying, not spending 500€-1000€ on iterative prototyping and the equipment to test everything.

  • The few things I don't like about flatpaks (which become a problem on atomic distros that use almost all flatpak by design):

    • Some types of embedded development is essentially impossible with flatpaks. Try getting the J-link software connected with nrftools and then everything linked to VScodium/codeoss
    • Digital signing simply doesn't work, won't work for the foreseeable future, and is not planned to get working,
    • Flatpaks sometimes have bugs for no reasons when their package-manager counterparts don't (e.g. in KiCAD 8.0, the upper 20% or so of dialog boxes were unclickable with the mouse, but I could select and modify them with the keyboard, only the flatpak version)
    • The status on whether it is still being actively developed or not (at least I hear a fair amount of drama surrounding it)

    But besides those small things, it seem great to me.

  • 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.

  • I'm sorry. There are people who go to an adult hardcore porn site and then type in "Suitable for work"??? Like do you think the site wouldn't get flagged at your work?

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • XP-pen has much more cost-effective options that are just as good nowadays since wacom hasn't innovated in like 15 years lol.

    They also work out of the box in Linux, but for all of the shortcuts, they also have driver packages for every distribution and if it isn't available, support will package the newest version for you (in my experience) in your chosen format and then send it to you and update the driver downloads.

    The XP Pen Deco Pro Gen2 is an absolute beast for a drawing tablet.

    XPPen also has a android drawing pad but that is normal android I think.

    If OP wants the drawing tablet experience with a screen, they can also get XPPen Artist Pro display tablet series which of the few artists I know in real life, are what most of them use.

    An actual drawing pad is much better than even an IPad for drawing, and you can also use whatever program you want (like Krita), not just the neutered programs that come on iOS or android.

  • 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.

  • London population: 8.8 million

    Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

    London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

    Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

    London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

    Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

    Mystery solved.

  • And you are often paying 140-200 for a pi nowadays to make it have the same usability as a laptop (pi, power supply, sata hat, data drive because SD cards simply fail after a while under server IO) while you can get cheap used laptops for 0-100.

    So unless you are running it for more than half a decade (which rarely happens with selfhosters for a main server), you are probably spending more in total on the pi.

  • My Lemmy instance admin apparently is also a home assistant contributor. Cool!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yep, you can get an m.2 NVMe to USB3 converter very cheap and stick any m.2 nvme drive in it. (Also sata versions exist for m.2 sata)

    Much safer solution for your data.

  • Different person, but I have had my Xperia 5ii for 4 years. It hasn't gotten any updates for 2.5, but in Belgium, bank apps and a national identity authentication app HAVE to work because the national ID reading software doesn't work on atomic linux distros so I can't risk putting Lineage on it to extend its lifespan. The fingerprint sensor stops working 4-12 hours after a reboot due to a prolific software bug and the battery life has degraded quite a bit.

    Maybe the FP6 would be a good successor. FP5 actually got 3rd for me when I took the MKBHD blind photo test after the pixels, the camera seems quite good now.

  • Programming @programming.dev

    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

    networking @sh.itjust.works

    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

    Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml

    What is with Steam's shading cache updates nowadays?

    networking @sh.itjust.works

    Home Network Setup Advice (WiFi & home server)

    Home Improvement @lemmy.world

    Help with Ideas to make a concrete slab into a temporary kitchen countertop?

    Arch Linux @lemmy.ml

    Should you never make a root partition anymore?

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?