I'm liking the recent posts about switching to Linux. Some of my home machines run Linux, and I ran it on my main laptop for years (currently on Win10, preparing to return to Linux again).

That's all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that. Not just because of corpo policies but also because of the apps we need to use.

Even if it weren't for those applications, or those policies, or if Wine was a serious option, I would still need to work with hundreds of other people in a Windows world, live-sharing Excel and so on.

I'm guessing that most people here just accept it. We use what we want at home, and use what the bossman wants at work. Or we're lucky to work in a shop that allows Linux. Right?

This post is merely a placeholder so you can see this community is a real place. You didn't stumble into a corner that doesn't exist. There's just not much here yet.

Give it a little time, and consider putting in some words of your own.

See you around!

I thought I'd try an experiment with letting Claude Code work on a fresh project. I'm not diving right into coding - I'm using Claude Code to write the specs first.

I'm blown away. It's like having a short-range time machine. I got so many pages of user stories, tech requirements, roadmaps, mvp vs later versions, and all that stuff. Done in a few hours over two evenings. Yes I hit the limits way before the 5-hour window, but on the plus side I went to bed instead of sitting up half the night, so there's that.

What would have taken me days of typing, Claude just magicked into existence with a snap of its virtual fingers. I review every line of it and still save oodles of time, plus I get to ping-pong about my ideas and refine them along the way.

Using Claude Code instead of just browser-Claude was the real boon. Working with markdown.md files is fast as hell. Running it on my Windows desktop using WSL to get a new one Linux session that maps to my home folder, and simultaneously using Obsidian in Windows to read and edit the output. That sounds a bit roundabout but it's very efficient, and as a side effect I am beginning to grok Obsidian and loving it. A powerful combo, plus it syncs with my phone. Add git to the mix as a finishing touch.

Claude can execute git commands, it can spin up a Docker instance to run the code it will eventually write, and I get to see it my browser, all on localhost.

I won't be surprised if the prototype it produces is shit. But I might be pleasantly surprised that maybe it isn't.

(I wrote this text myself.)

Hi all - please tell me if I'm doing this wrong:

My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.

That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.

1. I can't figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.

I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That's a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.

1. Can I get Pihole's per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?

I don't mind setting it all up in Pihole again (as yet another container) because I know it works (it's how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!

I am selfhosting a lot of stuff, but some things are on good old DreamHost instead, for reasons of reliability and such. I'm sure many of you are in a similar position.

I've been extremely happy with DreamHost since ~28 years but various reasons prompt me to look for EU options. I am not looking for just plain stupid webhosting (not VPS) but the options I see are so limited: limited subdomains, limited mailboxes, limited databases, limited everything. DH has always offered "unlimited everything" for a few dollars per month, that's an insanely good offering.

Still, if you could recommend a good EU webhosting provider, what would you say?

I'm looking for Arduino discussions and there's plenty on Reddit but almost dead silence here.

Is this all there is?

I've made a large number of custom prints, and all of them were created using TinkerCad. It's an amazing toolkit, stupid easy to use but versatile. That is ... until something needs a tiny adjustment somewhere. That's when I feel it would've been neat to use parametric CAD instead.

I have spent many hours following Youtube tutorials for Onshape, Fusion, and FreeCAD. Tutorial shapes like a LEGO brick are fairly easy, although I admit that this kind of modeling is a sharp departure from the kid-friendly TinkerCad.

My problem is that I don't want to make simple coasters or keychains, but complex shapes like this one. It's a holder/mount for two different kinds of walkie-talkies that I use, and the blue part slides into a tray in my car's dash where it sits nice and snug.

Question: How the hell do I even get started modeling something like this?? There's not a single straight cuboid here. Everything is slightly wedge-shaped.

The way I do this in TinkerCad is that I build the hollow first: I made a 3d model of the walkie, a little oversized, set it be hollow, and drop it into the shape - that's the red or orange shells you see.

There's so much spam, and people diligently downvote. But the posts are still shown, with -53 votes or something.

When a post is clearly unwanted, could it be hidden?

I run an old desktop mainboard as my homelab server. It runs Ubuntu smoothly at loads between 0.2 and 3 (whatever unit that is).

Problem:
Occasionally, the CPU load skyrockets above 400 (yes really), making the machine totally unresponsive. The only solution is the reset button.

Solution:

• I haven't found what the cause might be, but I think that a reboot every few days would prevent it from ever happening. That could be done easily with a crontab line.
• alternatively, I would like to have some dead-simple script running in the background that simply looks at the CPU load and executes a reboot when the load climbs over a given threshold.

--> How could such a cpu-load-triggered reboot be implemented?

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edit: I asked ChatGPT to help me create a script that is started by crontab every X minutes. The script has a kill-threshold that does a kill-9 on the top process, and a higher reboot-threshold that ... reboots the machine. before doing either, or none of these, it will write a log line. I hope this will keep my system running, and I will review the log file to see how it fares. Or, it might inexplicable break my system. Fun!

Hi all! My very old Mitsubishi Pajero III (V60 from 2000) got a 2" lift kit and now the rear wheels have too much toe-out. The stock tie rods won't adjust far enough and there are no other original "sizes."

So I need some aftermarket tie rods for the rear axle. My own research tells me I need a shorter (longer?) version of the original part number MR508134 (Imgur).

Two questions:

• Am I correct that the rear toe angle is adjusted via this part?
• Given that the stock MR508134 is no sufficiently adjustable, what sort of aftermarket part should I be looking for? I'm in Europe.

(For the sake of completeness: the front tie rods have adequate adjustment range.)

Hi all! My very old Mitsubishi Pajero III (V60 from 2000) got a 2" lift kit and now the rear wheels have too much toe-out. The stock tie rods won't adjust far enough and there are no other original "sizes."

So I need some aftermarket tie rods for the rear axle. My own research tells me I need a shorter (longer?) version of the original part number MR508134 (Imgur).

Two questions:

• Am I correct that the rear toe angle is adjusted via this part?
• Given that the stock MR508134 is no sufficiently adjustable, what sort of aftermarket part should I be looking for? I'm in Europe.

(For the sake of completeness: the front tie rods have adequate adjustment range.)

TLDR: VPN-newbie wants to learn how to set up and use VPN.

What I have:

Currently, many of my selfhosted services are publicly available via my domain name. I am aware that it is safer to keep things closed, and use VPN to access -- but I don't know how that works.

• domain name mapped via Cloudflare > static WAN IP > ISP modem > Ubiquity USG3 gateway > Linux server and Raspberry Pi.
• 80,443 fowarded to Nginx Proxy Manager; everything else closed.
• Linux server running Docker and several containers: NPM, Portainer, Paperless, Gitea, Mattermost, Immich, etc.
• Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole as DNS server for LAN clients.
• Synology NAS as network storage.

What I want:

• access services from WAN via Android phone.
• access services from WAN via laptop.
• maybe still keep some things public?
• noob-friendly solution: needs to be easy to "grok" and easy to maintain when services change.

I have some jet lighters in my shop. I'm not a smoker but they are useful for other things too. My problem is that they seem to not work at all?

When I buy them they are fine, push the button, clear "click" sound and a fine hot jet of fire. After a while though, they simply won't fire anymore, even though the little window shows that there's plenty of gas inside.

Are these also using the normal propane/butane as regular lighters?

edit: solved by printing at 20% of regular speed. This seems to give the filament enough time to ooze out of the nozzle, and the print result was excellent.

My Prusa MINI+ works like a charm, except with TPU. We have a 5-hour print task that starts well but fails after 2-3 hours because the TPU filament is no longer being pushed into the nozzle; instead it comes out of the extruder!

What could be causing this? Is the TPU just too soft and bendy? Is the shape of the extruder housing at fault?

It looks as if the TPU gets stuck and is then pushed into the extruder housing when the extruder continues to push. This happens again and again, but it's weird that it works well for hours before failing. The object is basically just a long block, so absolutely straightforward and no retractions.

We have checked that the nozzle is clean and has no obstructions. We have opened the extruder every time it happens, and there's no obvious problem to see (see photo 2 here).

We are considering to print a new lid for the extruder housing, see photo 3 here: (1) is the exit hole, and (2) is the cavity where the TPU ends up so it might help to change the lid (3) to a shape that does not leave a cavity there. Or is the problem that the roller (4) is too narrow or too soft?

For reference, the filament is Tinmorry black TPU from Amazon.

This is a Prusa MINI+ that has worked flawlessly for 3 months. Suddenly the prints won't stick to the bed, the first layer is all messy and I cancel the print before anything worse happens.

• The printer has auto bed leveling so I would rule that out.
• The plate is cleaned with 70% IPA, so it's not dirty either.
• I have tried to adjust the "Live Z Adjust" while printing that first layer, but no setting works well.
• Each filament is printed at recommended temps (+/- 215C) and bed is at 60C.
• Out of my 5 spools, only 1 works well: RepRapper 3-color PLA. Even the Prusament PLA fails to stick well, and also eSun PLA+, and eSun matte PLA, and Tinmorry TPU.

https://i.imgur.com/MEpK37W.png

Update:

• Thank you all for your kind input.
• I washed the plate, and cleaned the nozzle (have no spare nozzle).
• I also did a fresh Z-test (with this object) using Prusament galaxy silver PLA.
• That was successful and showed that my height was already very close to perfect.
• Z-test result shows that -1.425 is best. I was off by only 0.025. Image
• Started printing an object with eSun matte black PLA but the result was same as in my original photo.
• Changed back to the Prusament galaxy silver PLA and the result is perfect. (image)

So it looks like my filament storage is not up to snuff! Good thing that I only have a few spools, so not much is lost.

Let's say I never want to see another post about Trump, or NFL, or Apple, or that weird "rule" thing.

Is there presently any way to filter that out? In Lemmy as a whole? Or inside the Voyager app?

I have been using Workflowy.com for many years, and it is amazing. The only thing that bothers me is that it is proprietary and not something I can host myself.

I don't really 'get' how LogSeq works? It seems to run in a browser, but it seems to require local storage? So it is not something I could install on my homelab server and access from anywhere?

(Also, I really don't understand Lemmy. I went to lemmy.world/c/logseq hoping to find a community, and yay, here it is -- but there are no posts? I don't believe that someone created a community and I am the first to ever post in it. Confusion like that is what is making me consider going back to reddit...)

I am looking for an action cam. It does not need to be a GoPro or DJI simply because they are so very expensive -- but finding alternatives is difficult, mostly because all those products are misrepresented on sites like Amazon. Some reviews reveal that the manufacturer offers free add-ons to customers who post 5-star reviews. That means I cannot trust any review at all.

Where can I find honest reviews? How can I choose a decent action cam without getting scammed?

Printing here with eSun PLA at 215 C on a Prusa Mini, and there are lots of hairline strings.

What's causing those strings? Temp too low?