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@timpostma Thanks, but being UK based, shipping and import duties from Toronto would not be cost effective.

@mcaputo Longer term, that might actually be a great idea. I was planning on adding Sunshine / Moonlight for game streaming anyway and I remember now they offer a desktop streaming function as well.

Have you compared Parsec with them?

It seems that the app Remmina is the easiest solution.

I tried Connections, RustConn, Remote Viewer, Field Monitor... and none of them would connect. Remmina connected immediately.

It seems the entire world must be 3D printing... I've been checking the Bambu Labs store daily for stocks of PETG HF for over a month and they are out of stock of everything except blue.

I looked two days ago and they had more colours... but I was on my phone. By the time I'd gotten to my desk and looked on my PC, they were out of stock again.

Now looking at 3rd party filament (Elegoo, but UK suitable suggestions accepted) ... but I need to use it in my AMS and Bambu are even out of stock of their reusable filament spools!!! Do the self-printed ones hold up to use in a filament dryer?

#3dprinting #BambuLab #1stworldproblems

In the spirit of trying new things, I'm running Fedora 44 Workstation (i.e. Gnome50) on my laptop... whilst I run the KDE spin on my desktop.

I've noticed that setting up remote login on both is really easy... and using the default RDP viewer in KDE I can simply connect to my laptop... great.

However, trying to connect from my laptop to my desktop isn't working. (Firewalls have been configured, thanks).

Using the "Connections" app just fails to connect but never stops trying. I downloaded RustConn and that gives me an error telling me that it's spawned an external viewer (it hasn't) as the RDP server isn't compatible.

I can, however, connect to my desktop just fine from a Windows VM with the "Windows App"

Anyone have helpful suggestions?

#rdp #kde #gnome #fedora #linux

Got one of those automated feedback surveys from a company that supposedly does some work for me.

I've not been very happy with their service so I clicked the "Dissatisfied" button...

I got this response and I am not in the least surprised.

@robpumphrey Yeah, worked places like that.

"You must patch this now! Users can bypass our tooling!"

"Um, you let engineers run local virtual machines that they self-manage... what do you think that does?!?"

@bluewinds Depending on your plans, I'd suggest #Tailscale. Seamless sharing for personal devices and controlled sharing for friends, family or the public.

@anon_opin I don’t think this is as age gated as you think it is.

I know plenty of IT folk in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s who have had long careers in IT and are still utterly confused when problems IN THEIR CURRENT FIELD OF EXPERTISE arise.

Just a general lack of problem solving skills. Beggars belief.

@badnetmask Yeah, at work they have started a suite of monitoring on some infrastructure... one measures swap utilisation.

They've raised a concern that swap is often above 60% and asked what I am going to do about it.

CPU utilisation is low, memory usage is stable at around 70% and disk utilisation is low. So I asked "what problem are you trying to solve?" ... they replied "we keep getting automated tickets because the swap utilisation is above 50%" ...

I suggested disabling the alert on swap monitoring.

@teohhanhui @AVincentInSpace @mttaggart Their firmware updates are a little sporadic, but compared to companies like Minisforum or GPD, I don't think they are doing too bad a job.

I have a FW13 with the 11th gen Intel chip, the first laptop board they made. It is still supported and still getting firmware updates where appropriate.

@teohhanhui @AVincentInSpace @mttaggart There's that... (although recently Omarchy have announced a deal with Dell computers, so unlikely to get more hardware from Framework) and then folks often complain that Framework computers are more expensive and perhaps feel less premium than their competitors.

This is possibly true, but hopefully the build quality of the new 'Pro' model addresses that and than there is just the fact that they are more expensive ... which they are, but they are also infinitely repairable and upgradable, which their competitors are not.

Just taxed my van...

Entered payment via a debit card.
Got warned I'd need to approve via the app.
Approved by the app.
App shows the payment.
Website stalls...
I notice that my browser has blocked a pop-up window.
Allow the pop-up.
Pop-up fails to load.
Website tells me that NO payment was taken and my vehicle is NOT taxed.
I click continue, it tells me no data was saved and I need to start again.
Meanwhile, I receive an email from the DVLA telling me that payment WAS taken and my vehicle IS taxed.

Am now confused.