Unless you have a specific use case in mind, or have a particular distribution that interests you, I can wholeheartedly recommend Fedora (GNOME or KDE version, either is good). I’ve not had any issues with it for a few years (I think I had some trouble with it in 2022, but nothing since then).

When you’re running so low on money, the increased energy costs are potentially more of an issue than the hardware costs. You can often find cheap or free hardware, but if it is inefficient and increases your energy bills then that’s more money coming out every month.

That being said, I’ve seen some people have success with using old Android phones as small servers. Probably can’t do much, and not the most secure (as they will no longer get security updates) but definitely a low power option that should be easy to get hold of for free or very cheap.

Well I won’t be buying another creative product ever again

Unfortunately not FOSS

The surface book was such a cool concept, even though the implementation was a bit bulky

Please go step outside and touch grass

The collabora android apps are pretty good

Not so much a solution… But using a wireguard overlay network such as Netbird does make it simpler to connect smart devices to a VPN as you don’t need to install a wireguard client on each device

It’s a pretty common way to refer to them in the embedded space

Idk Creo has pretty awful UX

Wait why would you need new clothes?

The OpenTrons OT-1 and OT-2 were entirely open source as far as I know, but I’m not sure about the flex.

As other people have said OpenFlexure is great.

The Pioreactor was working on becoming entirely open-source but I’m not sure if they’ve achieved it yet.

Chi Bio is another open source bioreactor.

Lots of great open source stuff has come out of Joshua M. Pearce’s lab, most (or maybe all?) of which is on appropedia

Also if you’re interested in open science in the biology space it’s worth looking at amybo.org

Yeah I feel the same way. I feel like Kodi, unfortunately, makes it harder to use my HTPC rather than easier

I was under the impression that China sorted of allows it so that people travelling for business can still access everything they’re used to

I’m not sure of the value in terms of parts/capability. But since it comes as essentially a pre built or mostly built 2.4 and they donate to the voron team I can see why people would like it. That being said I’ve not tried one, so no clue how good it is.

Sovol have been pretty good with open source afaik

No worries!

Pocket Casts isn’t proprietary, it’s licensed under the MPL 2.0

It adds the haptics and adaptive triggers functionality, I don’t know how well that works on other systems without a dongle though.

Codeberg is Forgejo, in fact they are the maintainers of Forgejo