Thanks for sharing and congratz on the weight loss! Any side effects you noticed?

Why is soldering on high voltage a big no no? Almost any machine on high (230v) has a PCB with high voltage soldered parts. Whats your reasoning?

No issues with banking apps in the Netherlands, Android Auto works!

I’ve been using Surfshark for over 8 years and don’t have any trouble like you mentioned. Then again, I have an ISP (Freedom Internet) I trust more than my VPN (even though i’ve not read anything bad about them) and use Surfshark only for region checks and torrenting on my NAS. I love the apps (for great on all platforms), speed and lots of exit points to choose from.

Maybe you can drill a whole from the outside just enough to view the trace and the copper peg, solder it together through the whole and then close the hole up with a plastic patch and glue. It won’t be the prettiest fix, but soldering seems like a much better connection the this.

And this looks like a real engineers mistake to have such high current flow through such a flawed connection. Be safe though! Test a couple of times before trusting the machine again.

I’m really glad this is implemented! My kids both have an old revived laptop with Bazzite (Fedora Silverblue derivative) and GNOME, and the experience has been really good! With this I hope I can give my kids an alternative digital experience to big tech as part of a guide to better digital wellbeing.

Agreed.

I bought a distiller for €60 capable of distilling 4 liters of water (about 1 gallon) en generates some heat. The electricity cost is way lower than buying 4 liters of distilled water, don’t need to throw away a 4 liter plastic bottles every time and the distiller heats up my room in the winter (when the air is dryest here).

The camera would need to have its IR filter removed which some mobile optical zoom lenses seem to have removed?! If the lidar would be stationary it would render the lidar beam unsafe for human eyes as well. Most lidars have a beam that is harmful if pointed directly for a longer period than you would blink if looking directly into something rally bright. Because they are infrared you don’t have that reaction. Therefore it is mounted on a very fast moving rotary disc. Most of the time the disc itself is also tilting up and down or refracted by a mirror or glass to get a bigger field-of-view". This article is saying, you can destroy a camera by pointing a laser in the sensor. Yeah, dûh but the lidar won’t break it, unless using a zoomed in sensor which seem to have its IR removed in some mobile cams. So yeah it can happen… Edit: looked at the reddit video some phones with IR filter removes from zoomed in lensen can have problems.

Check out iode.tech as well. Like /e/OS, also a lineage OS variant but with build in firewall which you can customize (or turn off). Fast security updates and great default informed FOSS apps (unlike /e/OS).