This is normal behavior. There is much more to the JVMs memory usage beyond what's allocated to the heap - there are other memory regions as well. There are additional tuning options for them, but it's a complicated subject and if you aren't actually encountering out of memory issues you have to ask if this is worth the effort to tune it.

I use syncthing all over the place for this sort of thing. I have some sync directories that are multi way synced across multiple devices, others that are one-way drop targets to a specific device, others that are for operations like backing up photos. It's quite excellent with a good sync algorithm that rarely results in conflicts.

Maybe they are, but this is the way the medium works - you don't get to control what people post (unless you are mod). Scroll past and move on.

Still waiting for 0.2.0 to hit the main fdroid repo, hopefully it's soon...

I did the same thing over the past 6 or so months ago. There's nothing I could do in Fusion360 that I couldn't do in FreeCAD. People love to complain about FreeCAD, and it does have a steep learning curve, but once you learn to design in the way FreeCAD wants you to, it goes quite smoothly.

Pretty much everything that's running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.

Most major Linux distributions use systemd-resolved for DNS but there is no utility for changing its configuration.

Nor should there be. That's what the configuration files are for, and the utility to edit them is the editor of your choice.

100% all this. Canonical has been pushing snaps for awhile, and I wonder if the 12 year LTS for Ubuntu is part of that strategy - want something newer? It's in the snap store. snap is terrible, worse than flakpak and appimage - but just as you say, as an arch user I don't have to care. Whatever I want is probably in the AUR if not the main repos. Rolling distros, done right (arch), are an amazing experience.

Just install arch if that's what you want.

Otherwise, RTFM - debootstrap.

It's not really worth it, honestly. All netplan does is generate a config for systemd-networkd. It's better to just configure systemd-networkd directly and have a portable configuration, rather than use Canonical's proprietary stuff. The documentation is quite good for systemd in general, and with more people using it directly for network config it's easier to find examples when you need help.

I use it everywhere, raidz2 on HDDs for a NAS also with mirrored NVMe root pool, and on a couple of laptops. zfsbootmenu is awesome, so I can boot into any snapshot, and a pacman hook that creates a snapshot whenever I upgrade packages. Even if it's overkill for some of my use, I use it anyway and trust it much more than anything else - it has a proven track record. Backups to rsync.net are a breeze with borg/borgmatic.

manpages. For many of us, it's the only documentation that existed prior to the Internet.

You need to move the service file to the right directory, for starters.

That's not true. FreeCAD can do those things just fine. In fact, I have been able to do every single thing in FreeCAD that I used to do in Fusion360. There is a learning curve, but FreeCAD is extremely capable.

In a quick read, it sounds like the video you are referencing might be an old one. There's a lot of functionality in sketcher that is relatively new that used to be done in other workbenches. And even more in the forthcoming 0.22 release.

FreeCAD can be tricky, but once you learn a workflow that keeps things smooth, it helps a lot - and that comes with experience. And while I certainly have had to watch videos and read docs on how to do some things, I've had to do the exact same thing with commercial tools I've used. And sometimes, you just have to delete a bunch of steps and re-do them. This can be frustrating, but aside from the topology naming problem, that's really the same on the commercial products too - CAD can be frustrating. And in a lot of cases all you really need to do is go back and re-reference to work through the naming problem (such as a sketch or operation referencing a face that is now different).

In summary - it takes time and effort to learn, it's not a simple tool. Once you start to work with it, and learn to do things the way FreeCAD wants you to, it gets a lot easier and you'll be very productive.

For what it's worth, my favorite FreeCAD YouTube videos are from MangoJelly's channel. Many, many times I've been stuck on something and he will have a video on the exact thing. A recent one for me is failed fillets on curved surfaces and learning how tangency matters.

I hope this helps. It's a powerful, but complex tool, with plenty of pitfalls, but once you spend the time to work with it, it'll do what you want it to.

Oh, and one more thing - there's a commercial product Ondsel built on FreeCAD. They are contributing a lot back to FreeCAD (and I think some core FreeCAD devs are part of Ondsel). While commercially wrapped open source can be good or bad, I think this will help move things forward for FreeCAD in a positive way. I've been running Ondsel myself (it's FreeCAD at the core) as it has many 0.22 features in the current stable release.

Another suggestion for Darktable. It handles this case of mixed types transparently. It's a big thing to learn, but extremely powerful and capable, and you don't have to know all the corners of it, just enough for your workflow.

I think it would be nice if there was a more constrained, or specialized, spreadsheet option with only 2 columns, where the value of the first column is always the alias and the second column is always the value. I guess there could be other fixed optional columns like units as well.

99% of the time this is all I want - a simple list of variables. It's definitely tedious to create parameters in the current design, as great and powerful a feature as it is.

I'm not familiar with the macro mentioned - I need to look into that. If it saves one or two steps it'd be worth it.

ESPHome is amazing - there's so much you can do without writing a single line of code.

I have built a few projects around the platform - a boiler monitor that tells me temperatures and state of zone valves, an energy monitoring system tracking electricity usage and solar export, and a hot tub mod that inhibits the heater to reduce grid import and maximize self consumption of solar. They have all been rock-solid stable.

You'll be fine as long as you maintain the system, don't wait too long between updates, and pay attention to the output when you do. I'm running arch on everything - work laptop, a spare laptop, and a server (nas, Plex, home assistant, etc) - two of which are critical systems for me. I use ZFS for all storage pools, including root, and zfsbootmenu, so I can rollback to a previous snapshot if I ever need to or the system won't boot.

Your root filesystem is NTFS? That's likely the problem - I'm surprised it boots at all. Switching to a Linux filesystem is the likely solution. You could also try a newer kernel, too - 5.10 is quite old, current LTS is 6.1. Good luck.