On the professional front, I can tell you that unifying the keys to mgmt interfaces to critical infrastructure in a single app is not a welcome tool to see on my junior admin desktops

As opposed to having them spread out? Across multiple apps?

I would have my doubts about a junior admin who hasn’t developed a personal strategy to manage this themselves.

What about using a single app to organize their connection methods to various VMs and containers?

It’s an easy way to manage multiple servers/vms remotely. It makes transferring files to remote headless systems easy and simplifies remembering multiple hosts. It’s akin to moba xterm, a similar windows only project

Or opensuse tumbleweed!

Opensuse Tumbleweed is great, I’ve been daily driving it for ages on 3+ devices. It’s a rolling release and has all the latest packages, but is extremely stable. It has a built in recovery tool called snapper that allows you to roll back to a previous state before an update on the off chance you get a bad one. Ive only had to use it a few times over the years but it’s been great to have.

Really underrated distro imo

My first choice would be a framework, hands down. Not the cheapest but the build quality is great and repairability is the best of any laptop.

Second choice would probably be any non inspiron Dell model. The G15 line is solid if you’re in it for a mid tier gaming laptop.

Asus is trending downward I think. Their RMA process isn’t great. I’d avoid their TUF line, buddy just had his 4 year old laptop die without warning. Its probably the motherboard and looks to be a known issue.

I’ve said this before on Lemmy but lenovo’s build quality and repairability have been absolutely trash for the last several years. Highly recommend avoiding their products

I’ve worked with 3D printers for the last 8 years. The bambus are the most reliable, easiest to use, fastest, and have some of the best print quality I’ve seen.

I wish they were more open but their replacement parts are cheap and the value of everything just working is terrific.

I haven’t seen an easily serviceable lenovo product in years. The last 3 lenovo laptops I’ve had to fix had their keyboard plastic rivited to the case, so you’d need to completely disassemble the whole thing, and get a new case if the keyboard died. One of their new thinkpads went through two motherboards before it was stable.

Their new all-in-one’s require you to remove the entire backhalf to upgrade the ram, which is basically impossible to do without damaging the screen since they don’t have any structure supporting the screen besides the case, and it’s just plastic snapped together.

I’d highly suggest never getting any lenovo product

The Dev stated he’s been working on it for 10 years and says its time to move on

There are many USB ZigBee and zwave adapters that work well with home assistant

Seems like nextcloud is the weak link, can you access them another way? Through a network share?

Have you looked at the pinecil? Its cheap and has very good reviews. The hakko fx-888d is a classic option for a reason too. If you’re doing SMD work, consider getting a hot air station over an expensive soldering station

Buy the 5 dollariest arduino?

Super awesome. The android bit is particularly interesting

You’ll also likely need a few torx bits

Man that’s a hard sell when the starlite is going for $627 https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

$70 cheaper with better specs is a no brainer

The success of KDE depends on maintaining and attracting new developers. C++ is decreasing in popularity, with less people becoming willimg to learn it overtime. Adding more modern languages to the mix that are more pleasant to write with will help keep KDE popular with devs.

I think moving beyond C++ is critical for the long term success of KDE, glad to see it’s a new goal

Like many others, I have mixed feelings on this. If anyone is stopping by and doesn’t want to read through the linked forum thread, this is frameworks goal:

This isn’t a program to get people to go to conferences and rep Framework, it’s a program to give people who are already going to conferences and showing off their Framework some swag and opportunities to talk with the team. It’s not assigning work, it’s just saying thank you to people who are excited about Framework and active in the Linux community.

Also worth noting that pfsense was ready and intending to knowingly ship a broken and insecure wireguard integration