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This is a problem. Mozilla is completely dependent on it's primary competitor for funding Firefox. Although I don't agree with Mozilla's current direction, trying to diversify their primary source of income is rational from this perspective.

Some folks like to have a computing environment free of proprietary influences and extremely strong vendor lock-in. I cannot claim to posses any apple devices.

With nix + home manager, you can use `mkOutOfStoreSymlink` to make symlinks between the dotfile repo and the target destination in `.config`. I've found this to be the most ergonomic way to have nix-managed dotfiles. Because the out-of-store dotfile repo is symlinked, you can make little changes to your system without doing the whole commit and switch dance.

For example, here's a snippet pulled from my dotfiles that does this for multiple dotfiles at once:

  home.file =
    builtins.mapAttrs
      (key: value: {
        # symlink ~/dotfiles/configs/{value} to ~/{key}
        source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "${config.home.homeDirectory}/dotfiles/configs/${value}";
      })
      {
        ".zshrc"                                    = "zsh/zshrc";
        ".p10k.zsh"                                 = "zsh/p10k.zsh";
        ".config/sway/config"                       = "sway/config";
        ".config/nvim/init.lua"                     = "nvim/init.lua";
      };

There is a choice of operating systems, which cannot be said about macs.

One does not even need a top-quality professional electric knife sharpener to produce an edge for kitchen work. An inexpensive 1500 grit whetstone suffices.

Find one or two people to exhibit your stuff alongside you. The event is more fun in a group.

I exhibited there, and I had a lot of fun. My friends co-hosting the noisebridge booth got a lot of folks to find a makerspace near them. Several general attendees told us that the very first time they had soldered was at Open Sauce, when putting together their badges. The event has positive impact, and I'm hoping it sticks around.

This is not surprising, and further growth is inevitable. I am heavily involved in a local Linux users group, and the number of people switching away from Windows increases every year. Anecdotal, of course, but Microsoft's enshittification of Windows makes the argument in favor of a free OS easier every year too.

First-class Linux support is the reason that half the regulars in my local Linux Users Group have Frameworks. It's probably the most common laptop brand I see in my tech circle, and anecdotally I can say that it has eclipsed thinkpads in my specific community.

This is a fantastic article. It neatly summarizes several tricks that took me years to pick up.

Another useful trick to minimizing material in a print is to not print surfaces at all. Most of the mass in a print is concentrated in the shell. If the top and bottom surfaces are not particularly critical to the function of the part, then you can remove either surface. The slicer can still fill in the volume enclosed by these surfaces with infill. If you use a planar infill, such as a rectilinear, hexagonal, or triangular infill, the parts can look quite nice. This trick works particularly well on mostly flat parts.

I use two TPU parts printed in this manner daily: A phone case [0] and a relief strap for a pair of headphones [1].

[0] https://www.printables.com/model/615154-google-pixel-8-case

[1] https://www.printables.com/model/577575-hifiman-comfort-stra...

Wow, this phone is almost perfect - TRRS connector, uSD card, user-replaceable battery, and available in the United States. Not having an OLED panel might be a dealbreaker though.