Isn’t ffmpeg from the MPEG group which is pretty huge and has a bunch of money from all bug tech that want to use it? Idk, just what I have heard :D

I think the only real arm laptop that runs Linux decently is a Mac. I have a m1 pro I repaired for cheap. I installed asahi on it, which went crazy smooth (after Mac-OS stopped messing around). It does not feel different or faster than my other laptop. The batterylife is quite long though.

Its nice for coding and web, but its missing stuff:

• flatpak, apt and the like need to offer arm versions of a package, not everything is available. (For example Signal is missing, video codecs are missing)
• can’t watch Netflix (video codecs missing)
• external monitors are not working yet (it should be close to a release)
• I had Linux force stop some apps because ram was full (I played factorio, and I think one time this happened as well with freecad or so?)

So in the end, you can get it working, for me its too much pain for too little change

I would recommend a Mac m1 air with 16gb ram and 500+ssd.

The asahi website shows what macs are supported, m1>m2>m3 etc

My frame work 13 has to me the best keyboard. Its really nice and clicky and has a nice long travel. Compared to some Lenovos and other devices i tried I like mine the best.

The touchpad is ok. Its not a Mac touchpad but its ok I guess

Herrjemine.

“Wir scannen trotzdem welter” “Für unsere Sicherheit” “-” “Für unsere Sicherheit, richtig?”

I don’t understand where this doffers from other single bit vectors used already for quite some time. Is it just that the algorithm is more precise to reduce the 32 bit into 1 bit, than other compression models?

Another idea I just had:

Create a plan that goes through the 3 corners that the 3 edges of the corner you want to change, connect to. Create a offset plane from that plane, until it reaches the depth you want to cut off the corner. Then cut it off and use a fillet to make the corner smooth

There is a very good episode by the Darknet diaries podcast about it. Highly recommend the show and episode

To add yet another advice:

• Get a Lenovo or dell slim client (not a nuc/mini pc but the bigger version with data ports. Roughly same power but more useful hardware)

• get 2*4 tb hdd for mass storage

• a 500gb ssd for the os. If you have the money, maybe even 2 of them and clone them

• the os is tricky. You can use proxmox, which is basically like Linux but as you have multiple vms in there you can have multiple Linux installed to take care of. Another choice would be something like truenas, casaOs, unraid etc. I can’t recommend one there, I use proxmox and its great if you like CLi/sah

• to make it accessible from not home, use tailscale. You can also use a domain/dns to not have to remember ips

• if you have the option, take a mother thin client or pc with same amount of storage to another location and install a backup system, like proxmox backup system. That way your data is safe. Take a look at encryption if you dong trust the other place.

• my backup server draws 15w idle and 40-50w when its working

• my home lab is drawing 30w idle and 60 under load

• its just another factor to be aware of

Have fun!

Paywall?

That id my main issue. The lack of transparency send me down a bug hunt for a few hours before I realized apt installed a snap package. Makes me angry for some reason, but now I know

Solche Trottel. Man geht ja nicht zu einem kleinen hosting Anbieter um dann doch seine Daten an ms ab zu geben. Ich checks nicht…

I am a bit confused. I see a lot of problems that the EU has. But it is so stupidly important to have a collective so we have a stance against other economy or military giants. Stuff like mandatory usb c, some environmental stuff, support of the Ukraine, having basically free trade and travel inside the EU, more wealthy countries supporting and helping economically weaker countries, GDPR (pain for devs, i know) and things like that come to my mind. I am aware there are a shit ton of problems in the EU, but I would not want to miss those above. The US would kick each country around like shit if we would not be united.

I sometimes feel like the left, which I count myself to, is just as populilistic as the far right. Its easy to bash on someone or a system that is flawed, but without the EU for example we would be fucked as well. Why not fight for a better EU? Why spend time and energy to divide again? Its not black and white as always I suppose

Its about 2 years with Linux on my laptop and about 1 year full time on all my devices, besides my work laptop with runs w11.

I run KDE neon on both. I distro hopped around from Ubuntu, fedora, mint, KDE, pop but ended up with KDE again. I feel like it does not matter anymore what de or distro I use. I need my browser and a terminal and my tools, then i can work.

Its nice having a reminder every time I am working with windows that I did the correct choice.

There are some bugs, but at least tgjey are mine now.

Only thing I miss, is ableton. I did not dabble in it with wine or winboat too much, but that’s the only thing I miss.

But worth it. I stand behind the idiology and got a few other people around me to switch

Das ist echt crazy, so viele machen da mit von denen ich echt was anderes erwartet hätte. Die scheinen richtig gut zu zahlen lol

There is a paywall

Edit: this got too long. I’m sorry. But its good! And I think some hints that would have helped me!! :((((

One that is weirdly popular with anyone I cooced it for: pasta with creamy vegan chicken, pesto sauce. Here in Germany every supermarket by now has cheap, vegan chicken chunks.

Prep: chop onions, maybe garlic. Dice celery (root, or knot. Not the green stick things), maybe a bit of carrots very finely. If you want, you can dice a few cocktail tomatos for a bit of soureness. All while heating the pan, if you have, use stainless steal to get the most flavor (tip for better results: get it pretty hot, to where water droplets don’t stick but dance in the pan, but not too hot, so that the oil does not smoke. Put oil in only when the pan is hot (dancing water)) I don’t prefer Teflon as the don’t develop any flavour, they just get hot. You could also use a stainless steel pot I suppose, but they have a smaller bottom so things take longer and don’t end up as nicely

You can start to boil water now.

Put everything In the pan (maybe garlic a bit later to prevent it from burning) and add the chicken chunks. Fry everything until the carrots and celery is a bit soft and everything is nice and brown. Turn down the heat to low medium.

Put the pasta in the water now.

Add 2 tbs of basil pesto (I love the vegan one from Barilla), herbs (ital. Herbs, Rosemary, basil, caraway, whatever is in you spice rack). Maybe add a few tbs of soy sauce (always get the kikoman, nothing else please.) and if you want adda tea spoon of miso paste. Stir everything while scaling the bottom to get the flavours off and prevent burning. Than add about, 500ml of cream (soy or oat, whatever you want). Add veggie stock and mushroom powder (secret tip to get umami. Its addictive. Get it in most asia n supermarkets).

Then simmer and stir and scape the bottom, add the tomatoes in the last few minutes, until pasta is done.

Have fun with it!

Ich hab gehört der ganze Apparat bis man eine Durchsuchung machen kann ist so langsam, dass Deutschland schon sicher ist und man bid dahin umziehen kann

CAD:

• FreeCAD (bit clunky at times, it forces you into one specific workflow. Its free, open source and what you create with it will always be yours. Its what I use. It feels like C in programming language terms)
• onshape (feels very similar to fusion. Its a smooth experience, runs in the browser and is a nice tool. I liked it and did some cool stuff with it. Only drawback: the free only allows to store files openly, so everyone can see your designs. Kind of open source if you want, but I think files can only be opened with oshape. Its by a team that worked for solidworks. It feels more like python.)
• open s cad (you code your 3d objects. Its rough to learn and build complex parts I guess? But a pretty cool idea. Worth a try!)

SLICERS (all open source) It does not really matter, just try and pick what you like. I used them for fdm only, idk about resin.

• cura (by ultimaker, one of the older brands. Slicer is quite nice, nothing special I guess, just works quite well.
• prusa slicer (by prusa. THE printer brand I think. A bit confusion interface compared to cura I think, works great tho)
• orca slicer (based on slic3r I think? Has supposedly one of the best slicing algorithms if I remember correcly and a lot of settings. The forbidden one (baboo lab slicer) is based on this)
• slic3r (the og slicer of sorts, never tried it)

OTHERS: To control your printer (remotely if it does not offer it out of the box. I tried none of them):

• octoprint (sends live g code to your printer. Offers camera stream. Runs on a raspberry pi)
• mainsail is (controls your printer, if it runs clipper. Supposed to be one for the best I think. Runs on a raspberry as well I think?)
• many new ones have remote controll stuff build in. Prusa offer remote management, same as bamboo, sovol, some enders and anycubic ad well I suppose. Some run in the browser.

To control your printer when fiddling with it, you can send gcode to the printer over serial, if you can connect to it via usb. Can’t name a CLI tool for that from the top of my head.

There are python tools to generate 3d meshes from 2d images. Look at huggingface how to install and use it. There are also tools in the browser. Pretty cool stuff!