The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.

I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.

That’s doing that locally on your device, not on the carrier network. It’s definitely a good solution for this problem though.

Very nice. Thank you for sharing!

You could always just do a plate that’s customized to the SBC layout, like what you’d get with a PC motherboard.

Agreed. Diplomacy is not a skill that many people practice, and even when they do misunderstandings happen over text too easily.

Thanks for clearing that up.

You don’t make shivs out of the excess? I feel so confused.

I’ll never fully understand why humans are so quick to judge and offer non-constructive criticism on someone else’s creative work. It seems like the least knowledge are most often the loudest in this regard.

Your plan seems sane to me. I think you’ve done all the research you need to do based on the OP. I hope it works out for you and your brother.

Just as an aside, TPU will hold up outside and in wet conditions very well. If you want it to be less flexible, then you need only to print your parts with more outer walls / maybe more infill. 95A hardness TPU isn’t too expensive nor soft. I wouldn’t recommend engine parts being made from it, but parts printed in TPU will float pretty easily. I’m sure on a boat that can be handy.

Takes up more space without any benefit. this version looks “modern” but from a usability standpoint, it is worse.

Gnome 3’s guiding philosophy

With systemd, you set the default target to something other than a desktop environment.

I always recommend Pop_OS! for beginners. It’s IMHO a lot closer to what Ubuntu used to be, uses apt and/or flatpaks (and no snaps), has sane defaults, a good installer, a decent company behind it, nvidia drivers included and their upcoming Cosmic desktop environment looks sick.

Also, I feel like this is a better Fedora-based distro for beginners since it’s harder to break:

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

Doin God’s work here

Whatever you decide, make sure you’ve got a backup of any important data before you start making any partition changes. Things go wrong occasionally even when they shouldn’t.

If you value your time more than you like to tinker with your printer, then the cost makes sense.

If you like to do more maintenance and prefer to save the money up front, then the budget printers make sense.

20% should be perfectly fine. I can’t get mine less than that without extreme effort, and it doesn’t perform better at that percentage anyway.

I dry mine in a food dehydrator and print with it in one of the filament dryers to keep it dry during long prints. I live in a swamp though, so it’s necessary for me to do this before almost every print.

You’ll want to tow it outside the environment for repairs.

So… KY? Astroglide?

Pop the magnets into the paused print.

The magnets: "Hahaha. This is a fine joke, good sir!’

Resume print

Magnets: “Yes, a very funny joke indeed. Wait, sir, where are you going! Sir! SIR!!”

Walk away knowing that neither you nor anyone else will see those magnets again

And the people who defend Windows like they do - the ones who say it’s objectively better - have probably never had to support it professionally on either the help desk side or system admin side. I’ve done plenty of both, and I absolutely LOATH Windows because of it.

To think that Windows is perfect… My God, what luck they must have had with it. I’ve run into problems where Microsoft themselves were unable to figure out the cause OR the solution, even when paid to do so. We got a refund on that experience, but I have NEVER run into that with Linux or FOSS. Given enough information regarding a problem, I have ALWAYS had someone who will know the answer.