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  • Ahhh. Going after Russian services of course.

    Knowing the German government I'm not terribly surprised Hetzner was forced to comply quietly. But still, if they'll do it for one user, they'll do it for everyone. Really sucks.

  • Most distros, at least mainstream ones, will happily install right alongside Windows and give you the option to boot from either Linux or Windows when you start your PC.

    Basically, there is a "boot loader" that the motherboard finds on the hard drive when the PC starts up and tells it to load the OS. The bootloader handles getting the OS kernel out of the hard drive and into memory with the correct drivers so the kernel can take over. Windows has its own bootloader that can only boot Windows. Linux also has a boot loader called "GRUB" that can boot multiple operating systems located in different partitions on your hard drive as long as it knows where they are.

    You'll have to first shrink your Windows partition using the Disk Management tool from inside windows so that there is "unused" space on your hard drive not occupied by the Windows file system. Then run your Linux bootable USB and it will take up that space to install Linux. Any normal distro like Ubuntu/Debian/Mint et al. will set up GRUB automatically to recognize both Linus and Windows, and you'll be off to the races.

    However, if you just want to play with Linux before you commit to faffing about in your partition tables, most distros can also run in a "live USB" state where it loads the basics of the OS directly from a USB stick into memory, no installation required. I highly recommend doing this first!

  • Please do. An unsubstantiated reddit thread does not a story make- but the more people we get to look into it, the more likely someone will corroborate it (or not)

  • Realistically nobody's going to expend the legal effort to come after owners of accounts on a site unless it's very illegal content like CP. however it's still a very smart idea to compartmentalize snd keep separate email accounts for different services so that it's both harder to build profile on you, and also less likely to lose All Your Everything if one of the emails is compromised.

  • I wouldn't call what reddit is doing "thriving". The experience of what used to make Reddit, Reddit (the deep focused communities) is already quite decayed and has been decaying for some time.

    Curate your Lemmy communities better and make an effort to interact as much as possible. Lemmy always feels super dead if you don't actively look for new communities and instances to subscribe to, because the Fediverse is inherently in a changing state of flux of where the activity is. Lemmy does not auto populate your feed with a bunch of algorithm crap, you have to MAKE it show you what you want. I've built up a nice list of 40+ subbed communities and see lots of content.

  • More like they realized they couldn't grift any extra money from it.

  • It's Trump's little racism magnet "Truth" social

  • The ARM cpu will still beat out an i3/i5 in idle and load power consumption, and the mini PC also does not have GPIO for people who care about that kind of stuff.

  • stupid youtube drama

  • damn bro! made me realize how much i don't actually care

  • There's no such thing as overkill, only extra overhead to do more things with. Hell, if you found yourself with a ton of excess resources and good cooling, you could run a distributed computing project like BOINC on some of the spare cores and help out some scientists.

    You wouldn't see much of a bump in CPU performance, 6cores to 8 cores with a 200mhz clock speed improvement isn't ground breaking.

    Going to 8gb of memory will give caching benefits.

    But... That's all well and good. However. What I found the most beneficial on a OPi 5, and the entire reason I bought it over other boards, is the onboard NVME m.2 slot. Yes, the orange pi 5 can support 2230 and 2242 M.2 NVME drives at PCIe3.0x1 speeds, and it makes a WORLD of difference in performance. Like you would not even believe how fast compiling and installing software becomes when it's not bottlenecked by the ~500 iops an SD card can struggle through. SD cards are ungodly slow, and OS level writes tend to kill them every few months (they're not designed to handle that kind of work). Even the cheapest aliexpress M.2 drives, which I bought a 512gb KingSpec one for like $16, blow SD cards out of the water, and will last for YEARS with a typical pi's workload compared to the few-months of an SD card. Plus they're big enough to even do a bit of file hosting on.

  • Just reinstall it via Microsoft official iso maker. Anything newer than Windows 8 will attach license keys to the hardware (motherboard) and it usually picks the activation right back up.

    If not use the msguides.com kms method.

  • No telegram is garbage

  • Model in a non threaded portion of your male "screw" with a diameter a bit smaller than your minor thread diameter, and the width of your "nut" female thread section. Print it vertical and put the nut over that non-threaded section so they don't interfere. If you do it this way you can get singinifcantly better backlash/tolerances than printing a thread on top of another thread, where the threads might try to merge when printing.

  • Yep. 95A can be printed fast which is why it's probably called a "high speed TPU".

    Neptune 3 is direct drive so you should be fine for ninjaflex. It'll take some tuning though because every printer reacts differently to it. Good luck!

    Some ideas that work good in tpu:

    • a tool or pencil holder with little clips that your tools set into- tpu flexibility makes this great
    • a compliant phone stand that clips around your phone
    • an open honeycomb stress ball fidget... thing (I dunno just spit balling here lol)
  • What's the shore hardness on that TPU? Not every TPU is the same.

    Most generic printer TPU's are around 90 to 95A shore hardness, which ensures extruder compatibility. It's "flexible" but very stiff. It's best for stuff like compliant structural parts that need to be shock absorbent but still strong.

    Stuff like ninjaflex gets down around 40A iirc, which is considerably more rubber-like. However, Compatibility depends on your printer. Ninjaflex is OK in direct drive extruders with the right feed teeth, but pretty tough to get good results out of if you have a Bowden extruder because it will want to bunch up and compress inside the feed tube.

    You also have to minimize infill and wall thickness when slicing to get the most flexibility.

  • The only constant is that the civilians lose no matter who's doing the fucking. Fuck off.

  • The original Pi B had a single core 700mhz ARMv6 processor and 512mb of memory. It's fine for embedded projects using GPIO or a mini LCD screen, but that's about it. You'd be lucky to even decode 720p video on it as a streaming box.

    It might work neat as a monitoring device to keep tabs on the rest of your homelab machines and display a status output or something.

  • Turn your screen brightness down

    ...dumbass