Linux

With my side gig of selling 3d printed parts slowly taking off, I figured it was time to pick up a thermal printer for making shipping labels. I was worried this be easier said than done since I run Pop!_OS on my laptop but as it turns out Rollo (one of the popular budget friendly printer manufacturers out there) has full linux support and even offers official drivers. Read more...

If you’re trying to install FreeCAD on Linux via an appimage and your running into a Squashfs image uses (null) compression, this version supports only xz, zlib error on startup it’s due to a bug in AppImageLauncher. This is a known bug that’s been fixed for a few months but at the time of writing this (2025-08-04) the fix hasn’t been included in any releases yet. Read more...

Syncthing rocks. I use it to keep my notes and docs synced between my two laptops and it’s never let me down. Recently one of my laptops went kaput after an OS upgrade and I was forced to set everything up from scratch (including Syncthing). Thankfully it’s pretty easy to set up. Read more...