That’s like, half of Germany. I wouldn’t even consider it. 
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That’s a roundtrip trough the Netherlands!
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lol that’s one way for me to work. 4 hrs there and 4 hrs back. Thankfully I only make that trip once every 2 weeks lol.
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I drive my wife to work and pick her up and it is a total of 180 miles 5 days a week so I can have the car to shuttle my parents and sister to various appointments. A total of wife and family of aproxamitly 200 miles a day but the PT is ending soon so 1000 miles a week is tiring but doable
Yea 4 to 5 hrs a day 
I would drive that far for some good wide or quilted cherry though.
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Sounds like I need to stop complaining about my 2.5-3hrs of daily driving. 
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Have to say, moving to the island has really cut down the miles on our car. 
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oh, so you are close then. I am about 1.5 from MSU
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No no no that is a lot also I’m sure I’m a outlier. 
maybe after the wife’s released to drive she can take herself but I think she secretly likes the down time. Im just glad it’s mostly highways and not city.
Cataract issues made her hesitant and insurance till medicare made for steep fixes but that is one eye done and the second in a week and then wait to be released.
Also being retired on the way home i can stop and bird watch and visit the apple orchards and cheese factory 
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Okay, still loving Linux. Installed it on my “big” machine as well now, dual boot. I did a few quick performance tests, linux won on all of them by a decent margin.
Is there any sort of user or desktop sync that I can use between machines? I would love to have all the little tweaks I have done to match on all machines I use. For example I move the menu bar to the middle so it is easier with a widescreen. Firefox will sync extensions and stuff but not hiding the task bar.
I guess it just seems like this must already be built into Linux since everything else I have looked for has already been there.
Welcome to the party.
I’ve been running Linux since kernel 0.98 but just started using it on desktop as daily driver about 10 years ago (?). Mint is the best compromise for most people IMO. It just works. It’s what I run because I don’t want to Arch or Fedora Gentoo things up these days. I just don’t want to have to play with the OS anymore. Get out of my way. Even Ubuntu is “work” sometimes.
Bottles is the way to go for EstlCAM or Carbide Create. The hardest part is either finding the right setup and sharing directories is kind of a pain at first. I actually used the “builtin” one to look at the settings and then downloaded something newer and mimic’d. Though these days things just seem to work much easier. Though, I recently had to rebuild my carbide create bottle. No idea why but just stopped working.
flatpak override --user --filesystem="/home/user/Documents/CNC" com.usebottles.bottles
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Many ways… Though not sure about built in. You can always just SCP/FTP files if you know them. Maybe check out “syncthing” which I use for documents (Oblivion Markdown for notes across android and desktop). You can hook up the cloud services in the gnome for drag and drop IIRC. I hooked up google and onedrive (though they are a bit weird since they are not traditional filesystems). The trick is to know which files you need to move. Someone else may know more here.
There are many integrations using rsync as a back end.
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Not sure if this is what you are talking about but since I’ve now got miniPC’s attached to most of my machines… I can sync things up between my main laptop and selected machines without a lot of discreet file transfers.
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You’ll have to invite me sometime. Those look like good finds.
I have one as well as steam installed on my main laptop. It is amazing what plays on this little guy. There is an interesting story about proton and vulcan, where one guy just really wanted to play one game and he made a huge translation layer for vulcan that really opened the flood gates.
Proton is a combination of open source packages and valve does a lot to help it. But it built on a ton of free work (like most Linux projects).
If you have a free moment or two when we next meet up after the new year, we can run by one.
If you have a few minutes beyond that, I’ll take you to see the primary structure of my next work project.
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Okay, school me on remote access, please.
I would love to stay secure, but I would like to have some remote access, and there are a lot of options.
That depends, how “remote” does your remote access need to be?
For local network or a properly updated server reachable on the internet (DO NOT expose your local devices to the internet!), ssh is fine under the following circumstances:
- Password-login disabled, only login via private key
- Said private key is decently modern
- Root login disabled as well
In the local network, half of that is already overkill.
That gives you file transfer and a command line interface.
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For a novice sysadmin, NONE.
My recommendation would be to get a good VPN server running, then and only then set up remote access, and even then only to a separated zone in the network.
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Honestly, in that case the vps just becomes a (not properly maintained) machine exposed to the public internet, which now has access to the home network!
And how will said novice set up a separate zone in their network.
I think I need to clarify, as I think MakerJim (and probably others) missunderstood me: Do NOT expose a “home “ networl machine to the internet unless you know EXACTLY what your doing.
Edit: can’t spell
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