Agreed it sounds like op wants luks. Dare I say if you want bitlocker for Linux, it’s luks.

For me the tinkering is part of the fun, so old beat up ender 3s are perfect. If you want something ready to go, even a brand new ender 3 won’t give you that 🤣

Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.

Mostly just try Linux on it 😹 Don’t install it just run from a flash drive or something

… Run ChromeOS? :P which is basically android. Maybe run Linux if the bootloader is unlockable

😂 time to build your Linux from source!

It’s okay to cry, but also keep going until you figure it out, and watch freecad tutorial videos. I think learning how to cad on freecad is a nightmare, but once you know how things are supposed to be built it works well.

This meme brought to you by outdated packages in the official repo

Aight, almost every time It seems like audio is working but you actually hear nothing, getting alsamixer out and selecting each output channel and making sure it’s unmuted and full volume, on every sound device that shows up ( hit f6 I think to switch device to ) makes a difference. I’ve never figured out why it gets f’d up but I think it has to do with the service that saves and restores alsamixer state during shutdown and startup

10/10

I feel mislead, none of the apps actually run on Linux.

Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.

As for older kernels, there’s a thread Here but idk what the current situation is

Pretend it’s 1995 before I had Internet access

What level of involvement are you looking for in setting up the host os?

I’m a NixOS fan because once you painstakingly get the configuration file set up you basically never need to do it again. If you don’t need anything outside of nixpkgs it’s easy, otherwise it’s terrible. Docker is available in nixpkgs.

On connectbot for Android I really appreciate the feature that saves port forwarding settings for each connection. If you can add that and the option to start forwarding on connect that would be great.

Also it would be nice to be able to specify a custom command to run instead of the user’s shell.

Looks great! Nice work

My only input is gitlab is very complicated, never used the others

Yeesss come to the dark side

As a life360 user, I really don’t know how any reasonable person in the last 10 years could sign up and not know they’re selling location data. It’s a free service primarily designed to track your location. I didn’t read the terms, I just assumed it to be true.

I can confirm focusrite scarlet interfaces work fine, and the uv1 should be fine as well but I don’t have one. You may need to get familiar with the Linux audio landscape. VSTs mostly work these days, although I only use foss VSTs so maybe commercial ones have their own caveats.

For pro audio you should be using JACK to connect your sound devices. These days if you run a system that uses pipewire, pipewire can pretend to be a JACK server just fine. I like to use QJackCtl to set up Jack environments, although its not necessary because many DAWs are capable of setting up in the application.

For a DAW I used to love Ardour, now I still like it but am sad that it has been crashing often for me. I don’t use any of them but there are some well liked Linux daws like reaper.

You may have trouble with recording without a preemptable (aka real-time) kernel. Afaict this only matters on lower end computers or when you have a lot of live plugins running, but using a kernel with this feature just means that more kernel code can be interrupted to handle things like fresh audio data arriving over USB.

Mostly, you’ll need some time to get everything working how you want. I agree with the recommendation to use a separate disk in your existing computer for Linux, or get a whole separate computer. The nice thing about using a separate disk is you can know for sure your windows setup is available if needed. For me I slowly left windows behind, only realizing later that it has been a year or more since I last fired it up.