It hit the stable channel this week, so fairly recent (unless you’re on the beta os)

Didn’t read this particular article, but using a pi as a router works rather well. I’ve been using one as my main router for years now, with openwrt. You get a CPU fast enough to handle QoS without issues, more than enough power to run a few additional things if you want to (wireguard, AdBlock, …). Only thing is : the wifi is trash. Doesn’t matter for me (I just use the integrated wifi for a guest network, main network have dedicated APs)

Clean the printing surface with dish soap and tepid water, and adjust your z offset. It appears to be too low from what I can see, but it’s hard to tell from a few pictures. It’s not supposed to be 0, and will depend on your specific printer, extruder, … You should aim to have fully filled squares, with no apparent “scars” on the surface left by the hotend moves. A nice rule of thumb is to be able to barely move a sheet of paper between your plate and the hotend freely without feeling friction (make sure to clean the tip of the hotend before). If after these steps it still produces these results, maybe there is an issue with you bed planarity, but most likely your pla has gone bad (I’ve even seen sealed bags go bad over a few years), try with a freshly dried filament, or a new roll from a reputable source

It really depends on your end goal I would say.

With a “bare” arch install you will probably learn the most (possibly the hard way). Also, arch being a rolling release, be prepared to update your system a lot, and fix problems as you go. That being said, I’ve been using the same arch install for a few years now and have had to fix stuff only once (Nvidia drivers, the usual culprit). If you want to try bleeding edge stuff, that would probably be the best option.

Nixos : same as you, tried, and left because the community couldn’t settle, and seemed to be fragmenting more and more. Also cool for bleeding edge stuff (thanks to the easy rollback)

You could also go for a debian based distro (debian or Ubuntu). My servers run on this, simply because they tend to require less maintenance.

There are also quite a few “docker-centric” distros, that can also be an option.

Whichever option you choose, if you use a lot of containers, mane sure to use something like docker compose, and keep your compose files safely somewhere (a git repository, a backup’d nas, …). You will keep a lot of nixos’s workflow goodness (everything is a config file), without some of the trouble.

IIRC zip can, but doesn’t by default. Source : wasted 8 hours trying to figure out why something didn’t work anymore (had to switch from tar to zip because stupid security system wouldn’t let me transfer the tar file)

Random idea that might work: Try to install ReFind from windows, it should work and allow you to boot from random thing more easily. Then try using it to boot from the SD card. Don’t forget to turn off secure boot. If that doesn’t work, the right idea is indeed to “burn” the media on a partition, however you will also encounter some amount of headache with this option: an installer is not a single partition, but multiple ones. You could try only having the “main” partition on disk, and use refind to boot it too.

TL;DR: ReFind could help you. Turn off secure boot.

Let my add a bit of love for the wurlitzer too :)

I’ve not used it for quite a bit, but look at Thunderbird (a mozilla project iirc), it might do what you want as far as email is concerned. However do note that Microsoft is really closing things down in outlook/office these days, they really don’t like people using a “real” Linux (they want people to use windows with all their crap and start menu ads, and just have a small Linux VM they call the wsl )