I was thinking exactly that yesterday, I looked for a way to have few web apps without using ferdium.

Global clipboard synced with the smartphone thanks to KDE connect !

I understand you’re argument but I disagree. If the goal is to use FreeCAD then yeah, it’s probably better to start as a beginner.

If the goal is design parts using CAD then Onshape is a much better option in my opinion.

I would definitely recommend Onshape, this is what I use.

It’s great that FreeCAD exist but I would not recommend it for a beginner in CAD, there is a very steep learning curve before being able to create anything in it.

No,

There is all the backup of all my family pictures in the drives.

If something happens to me I want to make due that they will have access to it.

It’s a real story!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

At the beginning of the 20th century Henry Ford’s electrical engineers had issues they could not solve with a gigantic generator. Henry Ford called Steimmetz, a genius mathematician working for GE to help them.

When he arrive at the factory he spent 2 days and night listening to the generator and scribbling on his notebook.

After that he asked for a ladder, climbed on it, put a chalk mark on a specific spot and explain to the engineers that they needed to remove the plate and replace sixteen windings behind the plate. After that the generator worked perfectly and Ford received a $10 000 bill.

Ford asked for an itemized bill and Steinmetz sent this

• Making chalk mark on generator $1.
• Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

I find that Onshape is quite good and is all browser based so it runs quite well on linux.

I was doing some blacksmithing in high school, mostly knifes.

When reaching 800°C steel is not magnetic anymore, it’s also a good temperature to start forging the steel. So I needed a atrong magnet to know when the steel was hot enough, I used what I have available: a hard drive magnet.

It felt quite “mad-maxy” to disassemble a broken hard drive to use it as a tool to forge knifes

I’ve lost some of my sanity reading this !

Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.

After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.

We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.

NixOS too. I really like having a “fresh” install every time I restart.

A friend in high school gave me an Ubuntu live CD and told me I should try it.

I will try it.

It’s more expensive than Fusion360 but if its working well I might be interested.

I really want FreeCAD to work so I can get away from paying Autodesk for Fusion360.

My impression on FreeCAD is that I could probably get the result I want but I would spend most of my time fighting the software. I can’t justify to spend 3 time longer on FreeCAD than Fusion360

Yeah this was my issue too.

This is what I did, I prepared a partition for windows on the second ssd and it went OK.

The only issue was that I needed to manually add drivers on the windows usb for it to be able to recognized my ssd. It was a bit of a pain to find this information online

I tried via a VM but CAD applications need a GPU and doing a GPU pass through with a nvidia card on my laptop was too much for me.

I’m probably not the beat person to answer to you about the technical aspect and I’m not sure if I fully understand your question.

However I can tell you that there is no need to change anything at network level for tailscale to work.

I’ve installed and used tailscale on desktops, VM, raspberry, NAS or smartphone on plenty of different network, I’ve also remotely guided people to install tailscale on their machine at home and it always just worked. No issue at all and nothing to change on the network for it to work.

What I enjoy with tailscale is that the traffic goes directly from the host to the client.

Since there is no cloud relay I can connect to all my services via tailscale, even on local network and it’s not going to impact the speed.

This way I only have one setup that works the same way on local network or remotely but still have the local network speed when I am at home.

Did someone suggested Debian already? If not I would suggest Debian.