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Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:43PM (#48914830)
Yeah I’m not 100% sure, they claim “special durum wheat variety.”

For the price, from a protein perspective, it would be cheaper to get it elsewhere.

https://shopfelicettipasta.com/products/monograno-felicetti-...

Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:14PM (#48914627)
I know felcetti has a few varieties that exceed that number. ~112g for 16g protein.
Re:Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:44AM (#48159284)
Twiddler is probably the closest thing I can think of that meets those requirements off the shelf.

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

When buying a 3D printer I found it better to support Prusa[0] or another company that cares more about open source / hardware.

[0] https://github.com/prusa3d

Re:Restic – Simple Backups on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:26AM (#38927193)
My recommendation would be Duplicacy [0]. Code is also on GitHub [1].

It has a paid GUI version, $20 for the first year and $5 for subsequent years with discounts for multiple machines [2]. At least once they've run a promotion for a very cheap lifetime license.

Use it just from the CLI is free.

My setup is pretty simple, Syncthing and Duplicacy (GUI version) run in a docker container on my home server. Everything gets sync'd to the server and then Duplicacy backs it up hourly to a Hetzner Storage Box and BackBlaze B2.

The deduplication is a huge data saver on the cloud storage especially for pictures or videos that may be on multiple computers and different syncthing folders.

[0] https://duplicacy.com/ [1] https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy [2] https://duplicacy.com/buy.html

Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:35AM (#36269955)
I tried a bunch of different ways but ultimately settled on Duplicacy [0].

It runs inside a Docker container and backs up both my data as well as configurations like my docker compose file and smb.conf.

Off site storage was Backblaze B2, but I moved to Hetzner. Likely will move back just because B2 is cheaper and a bit faster for my region.

Another layer of backup I do is use Duplicacy to backup to a portable hard drive occasionally that I keep off site.

[0] https://duplicacy.com/

Re:IBM Palm Top PC110 [video] on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:42AM (#25729389)
The Dragonbox Pyra[0] I've mentioned on hacker news before is a piece of hardware that is just starting to ship it's preorders.

It's an interesting device that's of this form factor. It has an older OMAP5, but it's placed on a replaceable daughter board potentially giving it an upgrade path.

[0]https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

I have this one[0] that works great.

Wendell at Level1Techs does good work and there's even newer ones that can do 8k30.

[0] https://store.level1techs.com/products/kvm-switch-dual-monit...

Re:PinePhone: PostmarketOS Community Edition on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:34PM (#23531954)
You can install an SD card.
Re:Librem 5 Is Calling on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:18PM (#22892020)
Maybe the majority of people who pre-ordered these brick sized devices will finally start to received them after they've been "shipping" for 9 months after already being more than a year late.

Thankfully there's more competent companies like Pine64 pushing alternative devices.

At this point I don’t think anyone should be recommending this device over the PinePhone.
Re:Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:19PM (#22283145)
The PinePhone is a much better price ($150) and quite a fun toy as the OSes develop to a much more usable state.
Re:Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:18PM (#22283136)
$150 for the PinePhone is a lot cheaper. I'm not sure how much cheaper you want it to be.
Re:Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:14PM (#22283110)
I have a PinePhone and I've been using as a daily driver. It's pretty rough right now, but all the features are generally there. Within another six months I can see postmarketOS or UBtouch being feature complete.

It's fun to install something like XFCE and have a full blow desktop environment.

For $150, replaceable battery, SD card slot, privacy dip switches, and open source the value is more than there.

Mind sharing the exact system?
Some companies have 1:1, gallon of clean to gallon of waste.

Here's one that's quite popular: https://www.theperfectwater.com/Home-Master-hydroperfection-...

A lot of RO systems come with a sediment filter, carbon filter, and UV as part of the package.

Seems about as close as you can get to completely clean water.

You can get as good as 1:1 clean and waste water using.

Though as you stated it still doesn't solve root cause.

From the article it seems reverse osmosis is up to the task, but the problem is the waste water generated now has concentrated PFAS.
Re:How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:28PM (#22050294)
Unfortunately Wireguard doesn't work on PFsense/FreeBSD otherwise I would be using it.

OpenVPN is generally well supported.

Re:Ask HN: Any Pebble Alternatives? on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:13PM (#21908924)
You can actually get a devkit that's the full watch (just not sealed/glued shut) and it will ship within a couple days.

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetime-dev-kit

Re:PinePhone Review on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:04AM (#21834944)
The hardware is there. With some work a USB C dock can be plugged in and the phone can be used as a portable work station.
Re:If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead on Sunday December 15, 2019 @03:25PM (#21798747)
https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

Mechanical and split ergonomics.

Has built in Mouse capability using the keys. They’re also working on attachable touchpad, trackball, and trackpoint (just like a thinkpad).

Re:The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:57PM (#21601464)
>Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers

Why do you consider OpenVPN risky?

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