My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.

They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.

I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.

Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.

I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).

At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.

At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.

Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.

Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)

The only reason I paid for Lightburn in the first place is because it’s the only even slightly mature laser software that supports Linux.

Given this news, what are our options?

LagerGRBL seems to be open source, but nobody packages that for Linux as far as I can tell.

And I wasn’t able to find anything else when I was looking last year.

What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over?

Windows95

I got sick of constantly dealing with the BSOD.

Lightburn for controlling laser engravers.

It’s pretty much the only choice on Linux (though it is cross platform). Free 30 day trial, then ~$80 lifetime licence.

The other choice is LaserGRBL, which is open source, but doesn’t seem to have a Linux port for some reason. And it has a lot fewer features, with a more complex workflow.

it will just crash on you before you even find out

Older versions may have had issues with that, but I haven’t encountered any crashing in over 2 years. (And I i do 6 youtube videos per month with it)

Look at the date of the linked RFC documents…

Exactly. If you want to live on the bleeding edge, you have to accept that there will be risks.

Nobody should be running their main/only/mission critical machine on an unstable branch of any software.

It’s literally in the name unstable.

One of the reasons I am on Lemmy is to get away from all the bullshit Reddit drama and infighting…

Or maybe for identifying when it fails

That’s it exactly.

Thank you. I’ll keep that advice in mind when I get brave enough to try again.

The schematics are no problem for me, I’ve been drawing those by hand since the '80s.

It’s the steps between that and generating the Gerbers that mess up my mind.

Maybe circuit board design.

I’ve hand etched a few basic boards in the past, but I’d like to do a few “properly” using some CAD tool and have them professionally fabbed.

So far each time I’ve tried, I have failed to wrap my brain around the CAD workflow and after a few weeks I give up in frustration and move on to something different.

That’s a challenge.

The job I do didn’t exist when I was in high school, and most of the technology it was built on didn’t exist until the early 1900s.

I suppose I could just call myself a general repairman and leave it at that.

Honestly? Consider grabbing another Corolla if you liked your Corolla

Agreed. My 2020 corolla has very little of the digital bells and whistles that are increasingly getting in the way of things “just working” in the driving experience.

Still, more than I’d like, but much less than any other vehicle I’ve driven in the last 10 years.

And, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t have any way of “phoning home” to tell the corporate overlords if I’m doing something they don’t approve of.

I just let my dog help me answer the door.

He’s a big boy and very talkative. The proselytizers can’t get a word in…

I am genuinely sorry that this is happening

Appreciate the sentiment, but it’s not anyone’s task to apologize for someone else’s shitty behavior.

What you (and other Christians who are bothered by this approach) can do is to talk to your fellow believers about it and express your concerns.

We all know they’re not going to listen to us heathen unbelievers…

they used random cloth ones and the surgical looking ones. The

While not as good as a properly fitted N95, they are still more effective than no mask at reducing the spread of airborne particles from the wearer.

Remember that masks were always mostly about protecting others, not so much about protecting the wearer. And I think that’s where the loudest resistance came from - selfish people who don’t give a fuck about the wellbeing of other people.