I have 2 questions:

Do I understand the colors correctly in that /home is deprecated and shouldn’t be used? What’s the alternative in that case?

Where would you guys put configuration files for services? /srv seems like an adequate directory

I don’t think they are really comparable.

Personally I see blender more as an animation or organic modeling tool whereas CAD software like fusion is better when you need exact dimensions for your parts

I thought about doing it once but decided that PLA/PETG is probably not a good material for the case as I was expecting it to break too easily. TPU probably would work well but I’ve mever printed it and don’t have any. Also I don’t have enough experience working with leather for something like this.

The end result from me would have been a lot of spent time for a not very well made item

I found it a pain in the ass to remove amazon drm ebooks. What worked for one book suddenly didn’t for the next.

Whenever possible I try to avoid them for that reason

Is that spinny thing the glass rinser?

Honestly, in my opinion it kind of is (though I’m not an expert on it). Except for convenience I don’t think a browser should be allowed to access my USB devices. Though I would welcome it if it was enabled with the same kind of request that pops up when a browser wants to access the microphone or camera.

Oh I have it disabled. Pretty much among the first things I do with any new windows install is disable and uninstall as much bullshits as microsoft preloads. It gets pretty annoying though how much there is you have to opt out of. I also like complaining about them so you’re not too wrong there.

At least they are still better than samsung in that regard who preload facebook on their phones as a system app thereby preventing the user from uninstalling it.

The difference is that these programs are not preinstalled. They are shortcuts to install said program.

Honestly, what else would it be? Text takes ridiculously little storage compared to a single picture of a decent resolution.

Depends I guess. For me the biggest concern when I bought my Synology was simplicity of usage and idle power consumption which is much lower than I could get with one of the older computers I have lying around.

I am currently using 2 16TB drives in Raid 1 and was planning to move to Raid 5 (or maybe it was 6) if I need more storage by adding a 3rd drive.

What would you recommend instead?

Fusion360 is great.

The two things I dislike about it though is the lack of linux support and the fact that you have to store your projects in their cloud. Personally I would prefer local only projects which I can easily include in a git repository without having to manually export my model every time I make a change to it.

So far FreeCad seems like the best option for me in regards to those points but it is definitely less intuitive than Fusion360

I just wished they were more relevant in german politics.

It’s the typical dilemma. Vote for a party you know won’t get enough votes to do something or vote for the least bad of the established parties.

Isn’t Zigbee always on 2.4GHz regardless of country? Trying to shift the frequency to 915MHz for all devices sounds like a lot of work with questionable benefit

It’s been a while since I last looked into those.

If you aren’t looking for neural networks I found sklearn to be quite capable and easy to understand.

I also tried tensorflow and pytorch a couple times (not enough to get really proficient in them) and I think I found pytorch the hardest to wrap my head around. It’s been quite a while though so maybe it’s better to listen to others with more experience in that regard.

That’s a good point. Another one I have is sort of failure tolerance. I used to have a really unreliable router which would often crash and could only be reset using a full power reset. While it was in this state, wifi obviously stopped working but my zigbee devices where still available. I used to have a zigbee button linked to a smart plug for toggling my router off and on again.

This shouldn’t be a concern for most people obviously but I wanted to share my experience.

Another point I want to mention is that zigbee works at 2.4Ghz just like basic wifi so they can still interfere with each other.

Zwave on the other hand uses another frequency (I think it was around 860MHz) but is more expensive.