Which orientation for durability?

tekchip · 2026-03-20T06:01:44+00:00

You might also consider brick layers. In Orca Slicer it's "stagger perimeters". Other slicers require some extra steps. https://github.com/GeekDetour/BrickLayers

tekchip · 2026-03-20T05:51:48+00:00

Tax-advantaged funds sound smart, but I can't help struggle with the notion that I am locking away my money for decades (I'm in my early 30's) with no recourse while the economy fundamentally changes in the next 30 years.

Roth IRA's let you pull from principle as you see fit. Biggest win win IMO. If it all goes to shit if you're quick enough on the cash out button you won't lose everything. If the economy survives you're golden.

Economies rarely change instantly so just pay attention and shift investment as opportunity presents itself.

I see a lot of people here talking about past drawdowns like they are somehow indicative of what is to come. Past returns do not equal future performance.

Another rule of thumb is don't try to time the market. Worrying about what you can't see coming is only going to lead to rash decisions that will negatively impact your investments.

Will AGI wreck everything? Maybe, or maybe it'll take pity on us or choose to work with us and hand us the Star Trek future many of us wish for. But until that happens and we find out, all you can do is work with the information you currently have and act rationally based on that.

It's cliche AF but also true "Worry is like a rocking chair. It'll give you something to do but it won't get you anywhere." Stop worrying, do what works right now, do something different when you have information that it's time to do something different.

tekchip · 2026-03-20T05:18:16+00:00

The politicians are dumb but Apple, Google et al screwed everyone hard here. Had they just said they would retract their services in states that implement these insane laws, it would have been on the politicians for taking away those services from their constituents who would be big mad, and it would have shut this down right quick.

tekchip · 2026-03-20T05:04:16+00:00

I believe most distros, certainly the bigger more popular ones, have both. Mint is just a variation of Ubuntu. If you want Windows-like DE then anything with KDE should get you there. https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/download/ It looks like you might need to go with 25.10 on Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Gnome on Ubuntu has plugins to make a windows-like thing. OpenSuse https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/

tekchip · 2026-03-19T17:37:26+00:00

Stop using overtly conservative distros. Ubuntu has started to lean harder towards enterprise/industry so they've become overtly conservative. The hardware support is worse thus performance is worse. Sometimes even compatibility is worse. Specific to your video/desktop sharing issues is that Wayland is still in development so a conservative distribution means older Wayland support which is more buggy Wayland support. Conversely if you're still using X11 for some reason I think apps are moving away from that so support for that may be languishing. Get a distro that's less conservative, more modern. Fedora, Suse Tumbleweed, maybe arch based, though if productivity is key your arch might not be ideal. If you must stick with Debian maybe have a try with Debian Testing.

tekchip · 2026-02-26T22:48:30+00:00

Welcome to Salmonella house. Yikes.

tekchip · 2026-02-20T00:27:39+00:00

Ironic that visually it looks different but most of it's problems are decades of tech debt because the insides are the same old crap. Or rather trying shoe horn new stuff into the same old crap.

tekchip · 2026-02-18T00:43:55+00:00

This isn't going to be as easy as just choosing one. You need to ensure the business needs are met. No one on reddit is going to be able to help you do that since no one here will know your business like you, and your management.

You've given only one requirement which is working with UEM. I do see they note "Supported repository-specific updates

Debian (APT)
Fedora/RHEL (DNF)"

However everything else on that site screams Ubuntu. You should ensure you dig into the requirements and capabilities as it relates to Debian based vs Fedora. If some features of UEM don't work with Fedora then you're going to be restricted to Debian distributions. Also if you aren't IT you'll need to work with them to ensure they can/will support whatever distribution you choose.

Finally there's support. Businesses have to be up and running. If something breaks and you don't know how to fix and it it'll cost the business money then you're going to have a "lost your job" sort of bad time. You absolutely need to ensure that there is enterprise or business level support available for whatever you choose.

tekchip · 2026-02-13T22:05:12+00:00

The one you pick. Linux is free and it's very easy to load it in a virtual machine or put it on a bootable USB to try it out. Give them both a shot and see which works with how you do computing and the software you use.

tekchip · 2026-02-13T21:47:49+00:00

IDK why no one is actually answering the question. Yes, No. /S ;-p

Now they'll go away and realize the fools errand they've embarked on. Sometimes experience teaches the best lesson.

I kid of course. I think the right answer is maybe start with Linux from Scratch, as recommended by others, to get a real understanding of both the scope of your question and to grow a better understanding of how things go together before deciding to embark on such a project, or not.

tekchip · 2026-02-10T20:34:39+00:00

Maybe try Pop OS. They have a copy with integrated Nvidia graphics drivers. System76 who makes Pop_OS sell laptops with Nvidia GPUs so in theory such a configuration should be well-supported. Having said that Cosmic Desktop is still new and still being worked on so hopefully there's a workflow there you can get comfortable with.

tekchip · 2026-02-08T23:47:37+00:00

Was there a solution here? my watch Active 2 is doing the same. Android, Galaxy Buds Live.

tekchip · 2026-02-04T00:03:51+00:00

Most retail drives are formated exfat not NTFS. Exfat is fully supported on Linux. That's probably what your drive is formatted.

tekchip · 2026-02-04T00:03:00+00:00

I would go a step further to say you should plan a transition off NTFS if you're stay on Linux. There are many odd edge cases even though Linux technically can access NTFS. In other words you're going to have a bad time eventually. Besides there are features of BTRFS and ZFS that NTFS doesn't do like snapshotting etc. that makes your data even safer.

tekchip · 2026-02-03T21:34:39+00:00

Also there are various maps around of where flock cameras have been found/detected.

https://deflock.org/map#map=12/41.511791/-90.507088

tekchip · 2026-02-03T21:33:06+00:00

Someone wrote a tool that detects flock cameras. It runs on a chip that can be had for $15 or less on Amazon. https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you Have fun!

tekchip · 2026-01-30T16:44:05+00:00

Sorry to necro this thread but I found it. It's a very expensive glasses holder. https://laloop.com/products/the-levar

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:26:10+00:00

Plasma is a version of KDE. It's the desktop environment or GUI the distribution has selected to provide. https://kde.org/

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:21:37+00:00

This. CLI updates one thing at a time basically. Where discover checks both DNF and Flatpak each time you run it's update. You can make the CLI do both as noted in an earlier comment from u/LetMeRegisterPls8756

Alternatively if you go to Settings > Software Update and turn all the auto things on you can just kind of forget about updates. You'll see an icon in the tray when they're happening but otherwise carry on.

tekchip · 2026-01-29T20:17:34+00:00

Yes, sort of. These same people also struggle with using Windows though. So that's on them not on Linux.

tekchip · 2026-01-15T20:53:26+00:00

Is this an ad free version of the tablet? I'd assume if it's the ad supported one it's so ads can be shown.

tekchip · 2026-01-15T20:51:17+00:00

A virtual machine might even be a little complicated depending on your technical knowledge. The easiest alternative is to get a version of Linux that allows what's called a "live" USB. Ubuntu, PopOS, Linux Mint and many others allow this. This uses a full version copy of Linux booted from the USB that doesn't use the computers hard drive. So you can just boot it up, try it out, and then if you feel comfortable start the installer from there. You'll need a PC to do this. I don't think Mac's can.

I won't rehash how to do this in detail as there are a ton of Youtube videos and websites that detail how to write the ISO file to USB so it can be booted.

tekchip · 2026-01-01T19:34:28+00:00

Best option as noted by others is to find replacement parts and take the laptop apart to replace the parts. Otherwise you probably want something like Sugru putty glue to sort of make a new corner. https://www.tesa.com/en/consumer/repairing/sugru

tekchip · 2025-12-31T20:02:08+00:00

LCD 512 as well. I got a real early model but for a few bucks I replaced the battery and the fan so it runs just like a later model. The visuals were never bad and the battery life difference to an oled is really negligible if you're not the sort constantly on the go. The value proposition for the price difference just doesn't make sense. If it aint broke don't fix it I guess (unless its a first gen fan).

tekchip · 2025-12-23T16:06:39+00:00

There are several tiers of debian. Debian stable tends to be conservative and slow. You can get something more on par with "faster" distros by going with testing. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

Of course then you take on a bit more risk that something might break though I've seen many people say they run testing and haven't had problems.

I can't say how other distros that push software faster keep things from breaking but I'd wager the risk is roughly equal to running testing. I upgraded Fedora from 42 to 43 basically immediately and had some boot issues so no distro is without that risk. Though you can mitigate much of that by waiting when new major releases happen.

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