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- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 10 hours ago:
Mod Organizer 2 works great on Linux. It’s a bit trickier to install due to the way Proton works, but there is an installer for it.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 10 hours ago:
Linux has been very good for a long time. It’s just gaming that didn’t work very well until DXVK came out and Valve started putting a lot of work into it and Wine.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 1 day ago:
I use 100°C for ASA. The recommended bed temperature for the Sunlu filament I have is 90-110°C.
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 2 days ago:
I run one on my firewall, but it’s IPv6 only because of CGNAT. The other one is running on a VPS in case I need IPv4 access. I just configured them manually.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 2 days ago:
My Creality K1 does a decent job with ASA. You will either need to vent it outside or put some carbon filters in it to deal with the ASA fumes though.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 3 days ago:
You can use LibreOffice Draw to edit a PDF. It can actually delete text and images from the PDF. You do need to install all of the fonts that the PDF uses before editing it or they will be replaced with what you do have. That will probably mess up the layout if the replacement fonts are not compatible with the originals.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 4 days ago:
Yes, except now you can just use an AI to unpixelate something without doing all that work. It’s even more effective on video than with a still picture.
When redacting something make sure you’re not accidentally making it semi transparent. Use a box fill or hard edge brush with the opacity set to 100%. I’ve seen a lot of pictures posted where someone scribbles over the info with a soft edge brush and you can still see through it if you adjust the contrast.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 5 days ago:
You can get an adapter board that will make it work with an M.2 SSD. I believe it’s only PCIe 2.0, so there’s no point putting a high end SSD in it unless you need a high write endurance. Any SSD will be a huge improvement over a hard drive.
Most Linux distros will run on it since it’s using a 64 bit Intel CPU. If you have the version with 4GB of RAM, you will need something very lightweight though. I would run Debian if I was going to use it as a server or Mint if I was going to use it as a desktop.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 5 days ago:
The Mac Mini should still be perfectly usable if you put Linux on it and upgrade it to an SSD.
- Comment on Unlock Small Doors on a Grid 5 days ago:
An easy and cheap way to get more outputs from a microcontroller is to use a shift register such as a 74HC595. Each one has 8 outputs. You can connect the serial data output of one shift register to the input of another and chain together as many as you need.
For driving large numbers of solenoids, multiplexing would probably be the better option though.
- Comment on Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs 1 week ago:
It may be a viable option if you have a source of e-waste to salvage the chips from. Of course that will mean even more work since the chips will have to be reballed.
- Comment on Wild New Inflatable Wind Turbine (1.2 MW Output) 1 week ago:
Hydrogen would be fine as long as it’s not flying above an inhabited area. Helium supplies are limited.
- Comment on Side grade advice 1 week ago:
Run an iperf test to see if the ethernet adapter is working correctly. The speed tests on my USB ethernet adapter are almost identical to an integrated one as long as it’s connected to a USB 3 port.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
Firefox has had one hidden away in about:config since they started adding AI. Are they going to put it in the settings page now?
- Comment on What is the best trategie to refresh ssh keys? 1 week ago:
So what happens when the certificate expires? Do you get locked out if you don’t have physical access?
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 week ago:
Those displays are made to be very bright and usually have a lot of backlight bleed.
- Comment on Got my first printer, what else do I need? Any tips on setup? 2 weeks ago:
The filament absorbs moisture and that causes print quality issues. It can cause things like bubbles, stringing, poor layer adhesion and a rough finish. PLA will get brittle when it absorbs too much moisture.
- Comment on Got my first printer, what else do I need? Any tips on setup? 2 weeks ago:
Unless you live somewhere with a really low humidity, get something to store your filament rolls in. I like the Sterilite 54 Quart Gasket Boxes. They will hold a dozen rolls of filament. Put humidity meter and a big cloth bag of silica gel in there to keep it dry. Bake the silica gel when the humidity starts rising to regenerate it.
The 4 liter cereal storage containers work well for storing single rolls. You can print a spool holder that will fit in them so you don’t have to take the filament out of the box to print with it.
Get or make a filament dryer too. The filament usually comes wet even though it’s packed in a vacuum sealed bag.
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 2 weeks ago:
I have a feeling that custom ROMs will get a lot more popular if those idiots manage to pass this.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 2 weeks ago:
That’s ridiculous, Android has become such a bloated mess that it will run like crap on 4GB of RAM. Even the sub $250 phones had 6-8 GB earlier this year. I miss the early versions that only used a couple hundred MB at idle.
I’m glad they are bringing SD card slots back. I wish more phones would have headphone jacks and FM tuners though.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 weeks ago:
Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.
- Comment on Wireguard over IPv6 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s fine as long as whatever you’re hosting is designed to be safely used on the internet. Just keep it up to date and only expose the stuff you need to. I would suggest setting up fail2ban to block IPs that repeatedly fail to log in though. Depending on what you’re hosting, you may need bot protection, but if all they can see is a login page, they shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
- Comment on Wireguard over IPv6 2 weeks ago:
Just make sure you’re not using an EUI64 address. That significantly narrows down the number of addresses per subnet to scan. The bots found one of my computers that was using one. It took them 3 years to find it though.
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 2 weeks ago:
I use inleed.xyz. It’s free, has IMAP/SMTP access and you can have as many accounts as you want. It’s limited to 1GB of storage shared between all accounts though.
- Comment on sacrificing accessibility for not getting web-scraped 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
If that’s the case, then you should return the TV if you can or replace the WiFi antenna with a 50 ohm resistor.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
That’s only an issue if someone’s still running an open network near you.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it runs a separate browser instance for each electron program. Many of the programs that use it could just be a PWA instead.
- Comment on What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, if you have IPv6, you can open a port in the firewall and have external access. Whatever you are accessing it from must have IPv6 as well though.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 3 weeks ago:
No, but I don’t want to wait a day or more for a movie to encode either.