Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Wildbill @jorge I want a new picture of the guy in the VR headset with giant white can headphones on his ears too. Basically just surround his head in white plastic ovals protruding from every oriface.

@foosel Congratulations! Now that you can solve it from memory I encourage you to keep at it until you can solve it from muscle memory. Once you get to that point you will be able to solve one even if you don't try for years. That is also when speed cubing lookahead and other optimizations will start to kick in.

I love sometimes solving a cube as a background task while listening in a meeting (as long as the cube sound isn't distracting).

@Kymberly What methods do you use to preserve them?

@shawnp0wers I'd say worth it. This page dives into details, but skip to verdict for the summary: https://www.crealityexperts.com/creality-ender-3-v2-neo-vs-ender-3-v2

Main things are the auto-leveling (so you don't have to adjust corner thumb screws every so often to dial things in) and the all-metal extruder. Former will save you time and frustration with early prints (and costs the diff in price to upgrade later), and all-metal extruder will last longer.

@consumableJoy@artisan.chat @faziarizvi I posted a thread a few months back that talked about my experience with my first year of weaving. Many of the early projects you see in the thread were done on the rigid heddle:

https://social.librem.one/@kyle/109246581769869637

@faziarizvi @consumableJoy@artisan.chat I will also say that an advantage to starting and learning on a rigid heddle loom is how much easier and faster it is to warp it and get right to weaving. The much simpler warping process is less likely to discourage you from starting a project compared to the more involved one with a floor loom, and makes up for the extra time weaving itself might take on one.

While I do enjoy dressing the floor loom now, it took many hours and many warps to get there.

@faziarizvi @consumableJoy@artisan.chat I also started with a Kromski Harp. While I got a free floor loom from Craigslist a few months later, I still do use it from time to time to do a quick project when my floor loom is tied up (pun intended). I really appreciate how *silent* it is to use it compared to my floor loom.

I've made everything from scarves to plaid table runners to 2'x4' Krokbragd rugs on it.

@tudza If you are comfortable using the command line to install it using apt, in the mean time you may also want to experiment with the "nemo" file browser, as it also fits within the Librem 5 screen and the touch controls seem to work pretty well.

@tudza It is a huge and ongoing effort to make the entire Linux ecosystem adaptive and mobile-friendly. Bugs in the touch interface for Files (upstream GNOME project Nautilus) is an example. We do continue to work with upstream to improve things and even years on, I think you will notice a steady pace of improvements.

I also recommend the Mobile View Switcher plugin if you use Firefox. It's even worth using on desktops as websites remove a lot of their bloat if they think you are a phone.

@kop316 I would have probably considered the X2100 myself if I didn't have Purism gear as an option. In general I like the idea of breathing new life into old, perfectly great chassis with the addition of a new motherboard.

The T series was always too big for me (even the X series and 13" laptops in general are pushing it), but I'd love to see this done for an X60 or X60T, however unlikely.

@kop316 I know what you mean, I used a Thinkpad X200s for about six years (with a RAM and disk upgrade along the way) before I got the first gen Librem 13 for my personal laptop. And I used that Librem 13 until I replaced it with a Librem 5 + lapdock.

I have to say the X200 was the last of its kind when it came to keyboard quality (although to me the X60 was even better). Everything since, Thinkpad and otherwise, has been a step down.

@kop316 Yeah in my experience the apps that cause the most problems end up being proprietary ones primarily developed on proprietary platforms that are on this upgrade treadmill. I suspect the developers only test on top-of-the-line hardware, and get new gear every year or two.

I wrote a blog post about the dangers of focusing too much on hardware specs to predict performance when choosing hardware. In my experience many other factors (such as the software the hardware will run) have much more of an impact. Focusing on specs alone incentivizes bad practices like planned obsolescence and disposable hardware.

https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

@garethgreenaway But it's necessary!

@yaelwrites I'm reminded of that classic "Color Models" xkcd.

https://xkcd.com/1882/

@aral I guess I can only think of all the ways the precedent will be abused for ideological tit-for-tat ("software must not be used to aid abortions, gender reassignment therapy, vaccinations").

This is currently playing out in the US. A similar well-intentioned move a number of years back sought to ban books from school libraries that had racist content (ie. racial slurs in Huck Finn). The current wave of book banning is a direct ideological tit-for-tat response to that move.

@aral Pitop used to make something like you describe but it appears they no longer sell it. There are of course various "Pi laptop" kits and projects you can find on thingiverse and printables as well.

If it isn't critical that the SBC be embedded, there is always the option of a "lapdock" (like Nexdock and friends) with the SBC mounted in a case somewhere on the outside.

@Giagia Thank you!