I don’t know what might be best, but I’m curious myself. So I hope someone can help.

I have been doing some reading, and it seems like you’d be giving up a bit of functionality with not having a smart BMS with that victron piece.

For a future-proof, safer, and smarter setup, upgrading to a CANBus- or RS485-enabled BMS that speaks Modbus or Victron CAN protocol is highly recommended. It makes system integration smoother and battery life longer.

I don’t know which one would be best though. Maybe something like this? https://overkillsolar.com/

Buy a fair phone and put /e/os on it.

That’s a bummer then. Sorry friend.

Everyone talking about nvidia, but install radeontop for amd cards. It’s not very detailed but shows the gpu usage.

For nvidia I like nvidia-smi.

I took a more aggressive approach, I bought a second drive, but I just took the old one out (laptop). I made a windows recovery USB too and just stored them together. My laptop doesn’t get firmware updates through FW update so a couple times this year I have swapped the drive back in, booted up the windows partition and updated the firmware through their stupid tool.

Even on the vendor site, this laptop only has .exe files for firmware

Battery management

I have this laptop, running Fedora with kde. It’s fine.

Lol shows how much I pay attention

Off the top of my head, GalliumOS or nix

This won’t work for most tool chargers as they are 110-240v usually.

I have built this, it’s not perfect and I made mine a little over kill. I even have an extra inverter because I tried to scale mine up to charge a Nissan leaf. It successfully did so, but only for a few minutes before it would get too hot

What questions did you have?

As for advice, buy the correct crimping tools, a good set of wire cutters and be sure to get the correct sized wire. I’d also suggest pairing it with a battery, I just did a 12v marine battery lifepo chemistry and made sure my charge controller can handle it. This was actually kinda necessary because it keeps an even charge.

I didn’t use any calculators or spreadsheet, except the one that showed what the nominal voltages were for my battery

Also I’d say I regret doing one large instead of multiple smaller batteries just because of cost.

I’d be happy to help more but just know I am not an expert, or even that skilled at electric work.

Not a lot to this article, but I’m glad he’s focused on making Wayland better.

Agreed, I love mine.

Maybe, but I took some business courses too and even some of them had at least tried a Linux distro. I think it was more widespread than just turbo nerds and cs majors. Hell one of the biggest Linux guys I knew was an anthropology major.

This was me, you’re talking about me. 😂 In the 90’s Linux was barely getting started but slackware was probably the main distro everyone was focused on. That was the first one I ran across. This was probably late 90’s, I don’t remember when slack first came about though.

By the time the 2000’s came around, it was basically a normal thing for people in college to have used or at least tried. Linux was in the vernacular, text books had references to it, and the famous lawsuit from SCO v IBM was in full swing. There were distro choices for days, including Gentoo which I spent literally a week getting everything compiled on an old Pentium only for it to not support some of the hardware and refuse to boot.

There was a company I believe called VA Linux that declared that year to be the year of the Linux desktop. My memory might be faulty on this one.

Loki gaming was a company that specialized in porting games to Linux, and they did a good job at it but couldn’t make money. I remember being super excited about them and did buy a few games. I was broke too so that was a real splurge for me. I feel like they launched in the 90’s (late) and crashed in the early 2000’s.

I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them… Laptop locked up wouldn’t boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver’s you selfish POS

Gaming on Linux is pretty legit now. I don’t even boot into windows very often. In recent memory, only one AAA game didn’t work out of the box for me that required booting into windows.