Linux hobbyist, Machinist and tinkerer

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Sick build!

    Ive been building a offgridish server i plan to have dual nodes on. 1 meshtastic The other Rnode

    I though it would be cool to make the rack have a DIY PDU that i could run off wall power or solar. My plan is to have a rapi 400 run a propagation node for reticulum and have a client for meshtastic, its so much fun to get messages from airplanes :)

    I like both technologys antennas are tricky tho :|

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  • As much as i know how much a diamond back nozzle costs. If you print alot of abrasives its worth it, for context. Diamond back nozzles are like $100+ But they use PCD its manmade diamonds. And the most common instrustrial use for PCD is extruding wire.

    Like electrical wire, they use PCD to strip the metal part of the wire for making wire. They easily have 4 months of life in Constant use.

    Which when you factor its copper or aluminum its pretty wild.

    So plastic is going to be 1000x that.

    So a ruby just really is not worth it really its more of a gimmick. Because they cant be manufactured as precise as pcd



  • At times i have felt that my distro was so not worth the flak.

    But the thing that keeps me on it is i write it once and never half to dick with it again.

    NixOS is really powerful, but the learning curve will push you to the edge!

    I currently self host alot of stuff on my server which runs NixOS, theres some services that are as simple as ollama.service = true;

    And others that you spend hours cussing at. But i feel the declarative nature is what makes switching to any other distro feel so unintuitive.

    My linux journey had been,

    Manjaro > ubuntu > arch > fedora > silverblue > opensuse tumbleweed > gentoo > nixos > opensuse tumbleweed > nixos.

    I kept coming back to nix because i wrote what i wanted it to do and it did it that way every time. Its been a godsend for ZFS, although its not super bad to use ZFS on debian just mostly time consuming. The fact i dont half to worry about a update breaking DKMS and making my filesystem not work. I SWEAR SUN IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE THE GPL INSTEAD OF CDL!!!

    I have recently been exploring Guix, purely because of the NixOS drama. But i think nix is my main server OS