I agree not having micro SD cards is pretty frustrating. The way I have worked around it is to “self-host” the things that take up lots of storage space on a separate PC, and connect to that with my phone when I want to access it.

For example, instead of loading a bunch of movies onto my phone, all my movies/tv are on my plex server. When I want to watch something I just open the Plex app and go. The videos don’t take up any space on my phone (unless i will be out of service, then I can download them via the app for offline viewing).

I do the same thing for music, pictures, and other things. A benefit of this is all my stuff is accessible from all my devices (phone, tablet/pc/laptop/tv) without me having to manually load it on each device.

It takes work to get setup, and it’s important to make sure you have good data backup practices incase you have drives that fail. But once you have it setup it’s quite liberating not having to rely on all the BS cloud services that big tech tries to sell us.

While I would still prefer to have a micro sd card slot, this setup makes me miss them less.

If you set a static ip can you get connectivity? Have you confirmed that your interface is still up via Ifconfig or ip link?

The book “I will teach you to be rich” has a great overview of how to best leverage credit cards, high yield savings accounts, setting up automatic investments, saving, and lots of other ‘good to know’ topics about money.

For investing specifically I use the Boglehead method.

For those who don’t know much about him, I recommend watching the movie Revolution OS. It does a good job showing what he was working towards.

I’ve had my fw 13 since early Feb 2022. So far, I’ve replaced the hinges and upgraded to a new mainboard. (11th gen i5 to 12 gen i7 when it became my main PC).

I’ve redone the thermal paste on the 12th gen 2 times already to clean the fan out and have not had any problems opening things up. I open it up so often to tinker that the pull loop on the keyboard cable finally broke on me a few weeks ago.

My old mainboard is currently running my entire homlab. Opnsense, pihole, Plex, Kavita, audiobookshelf, foundry vtt, *arrs, unifi controller. I threw it into a 3d printed case and its been running fine without any issues.

I thought about upgrading to the fw16, but it’s too expensive for me to justify it. If I want to game I just plug into my eGPU. I don’t need my gaming system to be ultra portable.

I’ll probably upgrade again when they release a new ryzen mainboard that has USB 4 2.0 support so I can take advantage of the additional pcie bandwidth for my GPU.

I would reccomend the fw13 to anyone who is into customizing PCs or is passionate about repairability in the electronics they own.

Aptera is doing this with custom solar cells and they claim it’ll provide up to 40 miles of range per day. https://aptera.us/

• Gaming on linux
• David Revoy Comics - artist who uses only FOSS/libre software for all his artwork
• DNDBlogs - List of TTRPG blogs curated by Sly Flourish
• NASA Image of the day
• Hackaday - Articles about cool electronics and tech that people have built

Can you ping the server from your phone successfully? You can use an app like this to check: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.he.networktools

Making sure you have layer 3 connectivity first would be a good first step. If you don’t, I would start by troubleshooting at layer 2. Run a packet capture on both your phone and server while trying to connect to determine where the disconnect is. Make sure ARP is resolving properly.

If layer 3 IS working, move up to layer 4 and make sure you are using the correct port, http vs https, etc

No issues jumping straight from 37 server edition to 40.

This website has a bunch of great practice “wargames”. You’ll learn a bunch about common linux commands and the different options for them. It also provides you with some great tips on what to google if you get stuck. I reccomend starting with bandit.

https://overthewire.org/

+1 for openscad. I switched over from Fusion 360 back when autodesk changed the personal use license in 2020.

It takes a bit to get used to it, but once you’ve made a few parts you begin to see how powerful it can really be.

Its also super lightweight, so you can run it on most systems without any issues. I’ve ran in on a chromebook before.

The only thing I miss about fusion 360 is an easy way to add fillets to parts, that can be tricky in openscad. I use chamfers for the most part though, so I don’t miss it much.

If you use Firefox, the reader view works great when you want to look at just the article and nothing else.

I like Language Transfer. It’s free and you can download the episodes for offline listening.

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I do this same thing. I have Ubuntu on an external ssd with its own EFI partition. I followed this guide to get it setup and it works great.

https://itsfoss.com/intsall-ubuntu-on-usb/

I use fitnotes for workout tracking. Nice and simple and very customizable. You can also export all your workouts as CSVs if you want to import it into another program.

I use duckduckgo for personal use and google for work and I have noticed a significant quality drop in the results for both.

Yes, looks like that is the official name for it. Thanks.

I really like the web based management panel. Make it really quick and easy to add/change firewall rules, look at logs, etc.

Samsung’s TTS engine for android is the best I have found. I use it to listen to epub books.