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

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.

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.

It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

Technically you could get current live data (current step count, current heart rate, etc…), but any historical data, activities not connected to the smartphone, probably some UI features, etc… would simply not work and have no chance of working because they have an on-IC encryption module and encrypts everything into unreadable binary blobs before sending it to their cloud server to be processed. I think each of the developers sold their fitbits because it would be a bad experience, so there is nobody to develop the integration.

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/504

So this one is fitbit’s fault for being a shitty cloud SaaS company lol

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.

For the low low price of 50€ for a 30g part!

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.

Gadgetbridge is pretty good as an alternative if it supports your watch.

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

Lentils in a hundred ways, in pasta sauces, as an alternative for rice, black lentils for burgers, black or green lentils simply boiled, salted (halfway through cooking) and seasoned well. Your gut will thank you and its iron and protein is very high, and super cheap.

Just get tons of different veggie + meat (or meat alternative) combos (potatoes are also a high satiating index if you are trying to cut. 400g of boiled potatoes is a fuck ton of food for 350 calories)

• Salmon + any light, roasted veggie (asparagus, carrots and parsley, broccolini, etc…)

• roasted veggies in general: beets, filled courgette boats, filled peppers, carrots, cauliflower (harissa paste and smoked paprika marinades are amazing on cauliflower), etc…

• mushroom pasta: sauteed mushrooms (first sweating them on high heat) with your choice of other protein, take out when ready and make a white wine, cream, and shallot/red onion sauce with some chickpea pasta or other higher protein alternative

• shakshuka: essentially egg, tomato, and onions that can be used as a sauce for meat or supplemented with chickpeas and used with bread as a dip

• legume meal dips: e.g. red lentil dip: cook onion in olive oil, add garlic, add spices: cumin, coriander, chili powder, paprika, turmeric, bay leaves, pepper, tomato paste and cook for a minute, then add a can of tomato pieces, 250g red lentils, a can of chickpeas, and half a liter of your choice of stock, simmer for 15-20 minutes and add 30-50g of nutritional yeast. This is insanely good and has tons of protein, fiber, and minerals and you can supplement with additional proteins like chicken and dip with bread, tortillas, naan, or just rawdog it with a fork. There are also tons of variations with different veggies and spice combinations ) like a spinach variant that is great) Soph’s Plant Kitchen on Instagram has a bunch of these type of recipes, you can always supplement with meat if that’s your thing.

• Spanakopita: easy, filling, and goes with a lot of red meats like lamb, beef, etc… Phyllo dough then add leafy veggies like spinich and arugula and leek cooked down in a pot for 10 minutes or so with feta and boiled quinoa or boiled bulgur added and then lay out the dough in a baking dish in alternating directions: 4 layers, filling mix, 4 layers, brush with oil on top, trim edges, bake, done and you have a side dish for a week.

You can honestly take a ton of recipes and just tweak them to make them healthier. Learning to cook and learning to use spices is like the #1 life skill and makes fitness diets a lot more interesting and tasty.

We get a lot of advertising for it here in Belgium and tons of webshops support it, sadly. What a trash company.

Bitwarden

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.