RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)

Make a torrent :D

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I think anyone running a home server qualifies as an enthusiast, there are more uses for home servers than just plex lol

There are definitely valid reasons to use SSDs in a server/array. One of my proxmox servers runs 4x m.2s in raidz1 so all my vms are super snappy. Depending on what you’re running you can really see benefits, for example:

• Elastic Stack
• Network storage for photo editing
• Lemmy
• Immich

Pretty much anything with a lot of metadata or tons of files will see benefits from running on SSDs, this comes with the caveat that cheap ssds wear quickly and are a pain in the ass but if you need it, you need it

Things that have worked for me:

• your bed is probably not level, i installed self leveling on mine ($30 but well worth it)

• if its adhesion, try a glue stick. It looks like a PEI sheet but that alone was not enough for me. My routine is: wash with soap and water, spray 90+% IPA (before bed is heated) and wipe with microfiber (paper towel leaves flakes behind), then apply gluestick before printing

• maybe check your bed is warm enough/preheat for longer to allow the whole bed to get to temp, though i doubt this is the case but it doesn’t hurt to try

• for your first layer: slower speed, higher nozzle temp, higher bed temp

Absolutely no downside, we should be advocating for natural trees vs the fake ones.

Though, i must admit I’m guilty of temptation – the thought of not having to wrangle lights with a prelit tree does entice me (i haven’t given in though ✊)

Its definitely more eco friendly, the alternative is plastic trees which are worse for the environment.

Christmas trees capture CO2 while they mature and are biodegradable/renewable

How walled is it really though, it’s literally just a linux PC. SteamOS is the (arch-based) distro, and Valve is just a system integrator selling what are effectively pre built systems. Steam Machines are meant to have competitors selling their own systems with their own hardware choices.

This is no different than buying a gaming PC from Cyberpower, Alienware, Asus, etc except that the OS wouldn’t be windows.

Of course, as it stands there are no other competitors but that’s just because we’re in uncharted territory. If the steam machine sells well, then other integrators will make their own versions (like we saw with the Lenovo Legion & ROG Ally).

The idea that this is a “walled garden” when you can install any software you want, swap the OS, install cracked games, etc. is ridiculous. This kind of thinking is exactly why people think there’s too much infighting in the Linux community. Everyone talks about how they want Linux to become more mainstream and to dethrone windows. But when something like this comes around to actually do that, you all complain about how awful it is

This is true, i didn’t read the part where he’s keeping everything except the motherboard/cpu. I’m used to switching out to random gpus LMAO

For your linux partition you’d probably just need to install new drivers. I’ve popped my boot drive into a bunch of different pcs with no issue.

Your windows partition might be weird, last i heard it assigns the activation to the motherboard serial number or something so you might have to redo the crack or provide your activation code again

Brutal, i worked in b4 consulting before. They had Macs but you basically had to know someone to fight for it on your behalf.

I feel your pain, i struggled with a dell craptop for years. I swear to god, those things are designed to be awful.

(Although, shortly before i left i saw the new ones they were handing out which had Ryzen CPUs and actually looked pretty decent, but idk how well they worked because i left obv)

Maybe this works for a small-medium business, but for large enterprises (i work for a massive tech company) it doesn’t work like that.

Corporate devices are bought through enterprise service agreements, which have to go through the lawyers as well as the procurement team. Although you could get a contract from Lenovo for the actual devices, a Linux distro would have no service agreement, so that would kill it right there (+ legal would probably flag the risk of malicious code being injected into the OS, i.e. xz). Ignoring thag, devices that are onboarded need to be able to fit into existing device management solutions (ABM/MDM, EDR, DLP, AD, etc etc).

And before any of that, there would be some survey that goes out to determine how many employees would realistically make the switch. For Linux, that number would likely be so low that the business teams would decide it isn’t worth a discussion because of low business impact & user desire (not to mention that now the IT teams also need to be skilled up to support it).

I couldn’t even get a FOSS browser extension approved to be installed on my device, much less spur a movement for adding a whole new set of devices to the corporate inventory.

(Editing to add, i did talk to the IT guy and he said he wished he could give me one because he wants one too lol)

Well Zorin is ubuntu based, so i feel like that’s a win for Ubuntu (and debian)

Wikipedia editors man, going to the finest of details

Honestly, between the MBP and a similarly priced Dell as a company laptop, i choose the MBP.

The battery is better, the screen is better, performance is better, etc

Dell doesn’t know how to make a laptop & windows sucks ass. Macos is so locked down by default that all the restrictions on a company laptop don’t change the user experience all that much.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework. But we don’t live in an ideal world, so had to choose between the two worst possible options

This actually reminds me, i had set something up a long time ago to do something similar (but forward the pic to discord)

Haven’t set it back up since reinstalling my OS, i should look into that

Thankfully, this doesn’t seem to apply to code written outside of the Arduino ecosystem, so i ASSUME that if you’re writing code for a cloned board using PlatformIO that these new terms don’t apply to you

If that’s not the case, I’ll switch to micropython (probably easier anyway)

FACTS, i wonder how much the fine is

My only thought on the race is how funny it is that Lando was told to “do more” with a 6 second gap and then finished with a 20 second gap