If at first you don’t succeed…

Start with something smaller and work your way up or just push harder.

My grandma used to make depression era meals for my dad (they were also poor), my dad made them for me (not as poor then solidly middle income), and I would love to eat them for nostalgia reasons. Can’t because of gluten, but I’ve been trying out various gluten free bread recipes to see if I can get something that works.

A reeeeeaaallly long way of agreeing and saying yeah, nostalgia plays a role.

And thats why I have metal straws (plus I got them for free)

Mini PC

Overwhelming majority of my servers are tiny/mini/micros.

Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.

https://www.45drives.com/

This is my issue now, I need more storage and the prices are ridiculous. I dont see them getting better soon, either, so I’m probably going to buy new.

I’d recommend a read here:

https://www.crackedthecode.co/a-complete-guide-to-building-a-hand-wired-keyboard/

It has a solid overview of each step

Self hosting wise, not much, just ran through updates (I prefer to do this manually) and set up a new box which will host another proxmost host and NAS.

The mobo/CPU that became the new server has been replaced with an Asus prime x370-pro and a spare 1700x to be used as a new endeavoros desktop (their defaults are close enough to what I want I dont bother with full manual install). Mostly need it for a KDE 6 box for dev/testing to go alongside the instances of Trixie/Sid, since I’m considering arch for some work stuff that Debian won’t fit the bill for.

Warning

☢️ This is an early-stage project, and while the driver and nmdctl management tool have been tested in both virtualized environments and some physical setups, data loss is still a possibility. This is mainly intended for DIY enthusiasts comfortable with Linux command line usage.

Use at your own risk, and always have backups!

No, I would not trust it with important data.

This was going to be exactly my suggestion

Just to point out its utility, I use rclone at home to sync my data elsewhere, and I use it extensively at work for internal systems and client systems.

Sync for replicating one site to another, bisync for bidirectional. Extremely flexible.

So there is a LOT to cover on this, but I’m going to try and keep it to simple overviews.

• VBUS is the voltage supplied to the device (like 5V from USB)
• VSYS is the systems voltage that can be supplied from the device to the things its connecting to (like keys)
• GPIO standards for General Purpose Input / Output, or an uncommitted digital signal pin that can be controlled by the device. It can act as an input or as an output. In a keyboard’s case, this would be predominantly inputs for the keys themselves. If you have RGB LEDs, these would be outputs.
• ADC VREF is the Analog to Digital Converter Reference Voltage, which is the maximum voltage an ADC can measure and convert to a digital value.
• 3V3 is 3.3V out
• 3V3_EN controls the power to the voltage regulator, which lets you shut off the 3.3V supply coming from 3V3
• RUN is the pin used to start, stop, or reset the microcontroller.
• AGND is the analog ground, a dedicated ground for the ADC. Its separate from the digital ground (GND) to prevent noise from interfering with analog signals. It eventually connects to the power supply ground though.

Edited to add: You’ll use GND (ground) shared for all of these keys.

My FIL got back to me this morning, he’s only using an editor and printing his own music, so unfortunately no recommendations to be had there sorry.

I want to caveat with I have not used any of this. This is just a link I sent to my FIL so he could find something to fit his needs, maybe it will help you too.

https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-sheet-music

Yup. MS has been more blatant and ruthless, where Apple has quietly taken (or even just taken credit for) the works of others over the years. For Apple you’ve got the ipod click wheel (creative), the original GUI (PARC), slide to unlock (noenode)… Apple, much like MS, has been doing this sort of stuff from the start.

If the individual is the only one in charge of the project, and controls the money, there really isnt a difference.

I’m glad my decades old grudges against apple could be informative!

Ehhh… Apple took over CUPS development.

Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products developed CUPS in the late 90s. Apple hired Michel Sweet about a decade later and bought the source code.

After he left apple (another 10 years or so later), OpenPrinting forked it and Michael Sweet continued working on it there.

But no, Apple did not develop CUPS. I don’t blame you for thinking they did though.

Edit: Forgot to note.

Source: I’m fucking old now and was using Linux before CUPS existed. Holy shit was it great once it went IPP from LPD.

Edit 2: Sorry because Apple does this a lot and this one still annoys me - Safari was built on KHTML, aka KDE and Konqueror. So anyone trying to say that Apple made WebKit all in house would also be wrong.

Apple likes to do that. Take stuff and then pretend they made it. Especially from open source projects.

Ladybird started as a SerenityOS browser, and is now being made standalone.

Same (problematic) developer.

It wasn’t for Ladybird. It was for SerenityOS.

The irony youre laughing about isnt there.