Great advice. Framework is the best choice if you can afford it. Seconded your opinions on Lenovo. They're absolute trash now.

Oh man the extension for merging nodes is going to be fantastic. A few weeks ago I was using inkscape to clean up some dxf drawings I exported from some CAD models. Each line segment was just overlapping and not actually connected. I had to come up with some convoluted work flow to select and merge the nodes manually. Super excited that this exists now

I was looking into this last night, what's the current Dev status of termux? I saw the last release is from 2022 and there's a call for more maintaiers.

What printer and nozzles are you using?

Did you damage the thermistor or the heater cartridge during the first nozzle swap? Could be that damage is preventing it from getting/staying at the correct temperature.

Did you double check the slicer settings are correct?

Ah ok. I've done opnsense and pfsense both virtualized in proxmox and on bare metal. I've done the setup both at two work places now and at home. I vastly prefer bare metal. Managing it in a VM is a pain. The nic pass through is fine, but it complicates configuration and troubleshooting. If you're not getting the speeds you want then there's now two systems to troubleshoot instead of one. Additionally, now you need to worry about keeping your hypervisor up and running in addition to the firewall. This makes updates and other maintance more difficult. Hypervisors do provide snapshots, but opnsense is easy enough to back up that it's not really a compelling argument.

My two cents is get the right equipment for the firewall and run bare metal. Having more CPU is great if you want to do intrusion detection, DNS filtering, vpns, etc. on the firewall. Don't feel like you need to hypervisor everything

The Dells I've come across are all infinately easier to work on, and have had fewer problems. I hope you have a better experience than me, but I can't recommend anything from Lenovo

I'm not unfortunately. I had to fix a coworkers thinkpad t14 gen 3. The motherboard failed. Then the replacement was throwing fan errors for no reason, finally went away when I updated the bios. Now its going back to lenovo because there are graphics artifacts on the screen during normal use. It being made out of slightly better plastic doesn't mean anything, they cheaped out on everything.

Just wanted to add something different from the other posts, definately not recommending it.

That being said, it is a hardware key. You can set it up as a Fido2 key, making it as secure as any of the other options here, it is not biometrics.

Like I mentioned, you have to be a little crazy to go that route

Opnsense has an arguably better UI, and more frequent updates.

You can look into the drama about the pfsense devs when opnsource forked it but the tldr is the pfsense devs were openly hostile in a variety of unprofessional and uncalled for ways to opnsense.

More recently, pfsense devs rushed the wire guard integration which turned out to be so problematic that the wire guard devs had to publicly comment that it shouldn't be included inorder to prevent it from shipping. One of the reasons why opnsense forked a few years prior was due to bad code quality of pfsense.

Also my two cents, if you're going to create this list to benefit the community and you don't want to include too many options, then you'll need to make informed decisions on which projects to include and why. Relying on the community is fine, and crowed sourcing knowledge is powerful, but don't ignore large projects without researching them

Couldn't tell you. I assumed it was free but I haven't used an apple device in years

This was a few years back, maybe on 20.04 but could have been 18.04. The wifi card was a niche realtek that wasn't well supported.

The issue is more that neon and kubuntu both have trade-offs, using either means you will be using older software releases. Doesn't mean it will affect everyone, but for some people a rolling distro will be better.

I'm personally very happy with tumbleweed. It's been very stable, and has the built in rollback feature on the off chance an update played bad with your system (I've only needed to use it two or three times over the last few years across three different computers). Tumbleweed also integrates super well with plasma.