Are you on plasma 6.6?

Also “The metrics also show that basically no one is testing or developing Plasma on X11 anymore. The platform was already, for all intents and purposes, abandoned by KDE contributors.” There just isn’t the man power to keep supporting it

How’d you use rsync with kde connect?

I’m in the same boat. You’ll get better responses if you post your machine specs. I

A few months back we had a bad wind storm. I was driving home from work in the dark that night on some back country roads. I come around a curve and see some asshole with a flashlight in the middle of the road. Thankfully I wasn’t going too fast and I was able to break to a stop without slamming on my brakes.

Turns out it was a lady who lived in a house on the road. One of the old trees from the forest there had fallen into the road, blocking both lanes. With no streetlights there was a good chance if she hadn’t been there, I would have ran into it.

As I got out of my car, she told me she was watching to make sure no one hit the tree. She had called the towns emergency line but the police were tied up with other issues from the storm.

Some guy came out of his house up the way a few minutes later. He had a chain saw with him. He, myself, and another driver worked to clear any debris in the road. 5 minutes later the road was perfectly clear, and the driver and chainsaw guy walked off without saying any words.

Those people likely saved myself from car damage, as well as a good 20 minutes at least from having to find an alternate route home.

So I think there were a few issues.

• the original pinephone was basically too slow to be usable
• there were a few hardware quirks that had to be fixed in software but made mainlining drivers for it difficult
• the lack of community updates (and you could argue overall community management) caused some developers to move away while also impeded pine64s ability to attract new developers
• the lack of any sort of funding for developers made it difficult for people to work on as any more than a hobby (not necessarily pine64’s fault, but it’s the reality)
• poor battery life (better idle and sleep support would have been software issues but the hardware was designed to be cheap instead of really useful)
• daily driving Linux on a phone is a poor experience - not pine64s fault but there’s a bunch of support missing in Linux that needs to be developed before early adopters can really use Linux phones. Modem power management, audio switching between Bluetooth and speaker, MMS support, camera support, etc.

I have a minisforum v3 that I’m not using - just don’t love the surface style form factor. I’m willing to sell it for a good price if anyone is interested. Based in USA. Feel free to DM me

Avoid lenovo. Their build quality went to crap and they’re easily the least repairable laptop on the market these days.

I’ve had to repair 4 lenovos within the last few years. Cheap parts and the laptops all had their keyboards plastic rivited to the top shell of the chassis, making it impossible to replace without buying a new chassis. One of the laptops had to have two motherboard replacements before it was usable.

Their all-in-one doesn’t have a frame around the LCD panel, and they didn’t put access doors in the back panel. So if you want to upgrade the ram or ssd you have a 70% chance of breaking the screen.

If you’re only doing a VM or two, I’d get rid of proxmox and run truenas directly. It’s gotten better for VMs.

Also make sure you read up on the ecc requirements for truenas if you’re not using ecc ram

Great advice. Framework is the best choice if you can afford it. Seconded your opinions on Lenovo. They’re absolute trash now.

Onshape has a free tier, though all the cad files you make in it are publically available. That being said, it’s easy to use and, since it’s browser based, completely comparable with linux

Some of the installs can be a little weird, but I’ve never had anything that I couldn’t get running. Vscode has an install for tumbleweed https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

The major “issue” is the package names are different between Debian and tumbleweed, so if you’re installing software from github that isn’t directly provided by suse/appimage/flatpak then a lot of times you’ll need to install the dependencies manually by finding the corresponding packages (since most github repositories have directions for Debian/Ubuntu and not suse)

Or you could just use distrobox

I’ll +1 tumbleweed. Rolling and stable, it’s been great

Boy I’ve been following this for a little bit and I’m not sure if they can reach that goal. $1400 is a huge amount for a phone, let alone one that is only WiFi 5, with no full prototype or software usability guarantee, from a company that’s never gone to market. It’s going to be a very hard sell

I had no idea that (open)SUSE was so security minded in their packaging. It makes sense in retrospec. It sucks they didn’t catch this earlier, but this response makes me happy to use tumbleweed

Yeah he really didn’t handle it well

Edit: Here’s a link to the thread.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

I’ll second tumbleweed. I use it on 4 separate devices and its rarely given me any issues. If it does, it has built-in recovery snapshots - it takes 30 seconds to roll back a bad update.

Oh this looks very useful for organizing datasheets and dev references, will definitely give this a shot. Thanks and nice work!

New thinkpads are trash unfortunately. Lenovo really cheaped out on their build quality. I’ve had to fix multiple lenovo laptops and one of their all-in-ones and the corners they cut made the repairs either impossible or extremely difficult.

One new ideapad had to go back to them twice with motherboard issues.

Replacing the keyboard is impossible, you need to replace the whole front panel of the case becuase the keyboard is plastic rivited in place.

The all-in-one started as a simple ram and storage upgrade, but in order to do that the whole back panel needs to come off. Its snapped on but the LCD panel itself doesn’t have any subframe around it, so when opening the back panel theres a very high chance of you cracking the display.

New thinkpads are trash unfortunately. Lenovo really cheaped out on their build quality. I’ve had to fix multiple lenovo laptops and one of their all-in-ones and the corners they cut made the repairs either impossible or extremely difficult.

One new ideapad had to go back to them twice with motherboard issues.

Replacing the keyboard is impossible, you need to replace the whole front panel of the case becuase the keyboard is plastic rivited in place.

The all-in-one started as a simple ram and storage upgrade, but in order to do that the whole back panel needs to come off. Its snapped on but the LCD panel itself doesn’t have any subframe around it, so when opening the back panel theres a very high chance of you cracking the display.

https://www.squid-cache.org/ Should work too I think