https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ As soon as they show up on Swappa I’m gonna sell my OnePlus and Nothing phones and grab a couple of these new-fangled Librem-5s (one for daily driver, one for development).

It did work out - and just in the nick of time! My main router, a Cudy, was glitching badly; I took it apart yesterday and found a bulging capacitor about to burst. So I flashed my old Linksys with the latest OpenWrt - it was so effortless that I wasn’t sure I configured it properly! Even though it’s an older WiFi 5 model, speedtests show no measurable drop in performance. Interestingly, packet latency is half of the Cudy’s, so it feels much snappier and responsive. It honestly feels like an upgrade lol. I love the app store it has too, very useful. Thank you very much for the recommendation!

I just looked up my (backup) router, a Linksys WRT1200AC, and sure enough, OpenWrt has a recently updated firmware dated June 2025, whereas the latest supported build of DD-WRT is from 2020. I’m gonna give OpenWRT a shot, thanks for the recommendation!

I’m a DD-WRT fan, mainly for it’s simply, uniform GUI. Here’s a good article comparing the two, plus an honorable mention of ASUSWRT. https://www.xda-developers.com/dd-wrt-vs-openwrt/

No, but someone replied to his article and suggested about 50 years. I think longer, as in better wake Harry Seldon and let’s go start Foundation like yesterday!

https://peterturchin.com/the-science-behind-my-forecast-for-2020/

Slrpnk.net was my first Lemmy server! I had absolutely NO IDEA how it worked, but I was motivated by my recent departure from Facebook and Twitter.

When they went down, it kinda felt like when you go to a party with someone and it’s all their friends, and then your date vanishes into thin air, and your choices are leaving the party or making awkward convo with a rodent of unusually large size by the punchbowl…

There is a alpha client and instructions available here: https://smartdigihere.com/jellyfin-on-samsung-smart-tv/

However as stated further down the article, it’s easier to just use a web browser and access your jellyfin server that way. Login, bookmark the URL (don’t forget to include the port) and then hit full screen.

Note: You may need to tweak (server side) your transcoding and subtitle settings.

I noticed the age of the interviews after replying - kinda sad, reminded me of forums I joined around that time, and have since dried up as technology evolved. I actually ran opensuse for awhile around that time too (it was not very polished) - shame I didn’t know about the interviews then.

Nowadays I run a Fedora-based distro called Ultramarine - which rocks! Fast, smooth, stable, versatile. Small but knowledgeable and very friendly Discord-based support. Sponsored by a small startup called Fyra Labs. I thoroughly recommend checking them out.

Here’s a page from OpenSuse’s website that links to some really interesting interviews with people who contribute to the project:

https://people.opensuse.org/index.html

Quote from interview with Ludwig:

Q: Three words to describe openSUSE? Or make up a proper slogan! A: Lots of fun!

Q: What do you think the future holds for openSUSE? A: The future is unwritten. As long as we have brilliant people we will see new ideas we haven’t thought about before.

Q: If you would have unlimited resources, what would you do with it? A: What kind of resources?

Q: Let’s say you have money to hire a thousand people to work on openSUSE. Who would you hire and what would you let them do? A: Finally fix RPM, printing and KDE? :-)

Q: Star Trek or Star Wars? A: Star Trek.

Q: Torvalds or Stallman? A: Pfft.