Gotcha, yeah just 4 little wires, easy to make a custom connection or small cable and hide it away

Excellent

It’s not hard to hide wires behind that big screen, even if you have to drill a little hole, no big deal.

Are you picturing a big USB or HDMI cable sticking out the side?

+1 for bluefin. I’m actually running that on my own laptop. Fw13, it’s been rock solid, which is exactly what I wanted.

Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁

Ours is going up $100/mo next year

Picked up an Oroville redenbacher air popper from Goodwill for $5, basically brand new, manual and everything (not that there’s much to know). We’ve been going crazy with it. Highly recommend.

I grew up with one, but have never owned my own. Always used microwave popcorn. But with the chemical concerns in that, this feels healthier 🤷‍♂️

Ever look into atomic/immutable distros? It’s a whole different way of doing things, but so far… I really dig it.

I have a tendency to muck about in the settings and configs, and make my system… Unstable…

But with an atomic distro, running flatpacks for most things and containers for anything exotic, my fingers stay out of the pie, and my system has been rock solid for 3/4 of a year, which is impressive for me.

I don’t think I’ll go back, not for my main machine anyway.

Just popping in to say raid is not a backup! It is for high availability!

Stuff’s expensive, it sucks, I’m not saying you need to spend more than you’re able to, I’m just warning you and others that while raid is often considered a pseudo-backup, it’s real purpose is high availability, so you can still access your data while your restoring from your actual backups somewhere else.

Best practice is 3-2-1, 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, 1 of which is in a different physical location.

But honestly, if you can just get 2 copies, both on hard drives, both in your same house, you’re still miles ahead of simply relying on raid.

Backup your data!

Thanks for coming to my TED talk 😂

It’s comments like these that make me realize that maybe I have ADHD… and then I stick my head on the sand and ignore it again…

So uh, what’s the use case for this thing? Why do I-… er… why would someone want one?

Asking for a friend…

This is the answer.

If it’s a DC whoop style motor, switch them.

If it’s a BLDC with the standard three wires, just swap two of them, pick any two and swap them.

I like flavored coffee on occasion. We have two grinders, the slightly lower quality one gets all the flavored beans, they never go into the good grinder.

That said, I got a handful of flavors recently to share with friends. I like to bring our espresso machine glamping, I set it up on a table under a tarp next to our tent, with a 100 foot cord running to a small generator.

When I got home, I tried mixing a little bit of each flavor together. 5 flavors,a few beans from each. It was honestly terrible. Far worse than any individual flavor by itself. It wasn’t unique or interesting, it was bad, and I’ll never do it again 🤷‍♂️

Edit: That said, while I would never put flavored beans in the flavor free grinder, as a matter of principle… I’ve never noticed a problem when changing from one flavor to another in the flavored grinder. So I doubt the grocery store grinder would affect the flavor that much 🤷‍♂️

The top left picture is a modified version of the bottom left picture 🤔

My cat is actually super affectionate, annoyingly so sometimes. He’s like a dog that doesn’t fetch. He greets me at the door, meows and rubs my legs non-stop until I sit down and he can crawl on my lap. He loves new people, and if you try to leave him home alone for more than a day or two, even with a clean box and full food and water, he’ll poop on the floor in protest. Never any other time. But if we have someone stop in on him, even just for a half hour of pets, he’s fine 🤷‍♂️

https://a.co/d/5S3ZJTT

It’s like a teal, blue green ish

Extremerate emerald green

Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.

But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.

The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.

But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.

I’d still do it all again though, looks great

Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.

Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.

If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?

No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦‍♂️