I’d start with some basic Linux networking and tools, if you don’t have them already.

I don’t know if that’s the basics everyone knows these days, but… learn how TCP,UDP,ICMP,TLS relate, what a netmask is, what is ARP and MAC addresses. Fire up Wireshark and look around what is happening on your network. Learn some basic commands like ip -br -a and ss (or the older netstat) so you know how to figure out which program is listening where. Learn how to manually resolve a DNS name (dig or host). How tunnel a TCP connection or a webbrowser through ssh (port forwarding, SOCKS proxy). Learn enough of the HTTP protocol so you can manually enter a valid GET request over a simple TCP connection to port 80 with netcat or nc. Or use httpie or curl for the same purpose. You can’t host a lot with that knowledge, but it helps to figure out why things are not working.

I’d say Caddy is generally easier and a more modern alternative to Apache/nginx.

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Having used both Jitsi and LiveKit, I get it. Jitsi is great if you use it as it is, but if you want to integrate video conferencing into your own solution and customize everything, LiveKit is the logical choice. (I think it is also much newer then Jitsi, which used to be the only choice.)

If they wanted to integrate a finished product, I would expect them to use Matrix over Jitsi, because it seems to have seen some use in France already.

Also, I think Matrix integrated LiveKit for video over their existing Jitsi integration, so… the ecosystem seems to flock around LiveKit anyway. So maybe the’ll contribute to LiveKit if they find issues with it, and everyone benefits from that.

Blender user here. I think you got it right, and FreeCAD is probably your best bet. Maybe give it a second chance.

OpenSCAD is in a different category, it’s more like a coding tool or software library. There are other options if you’re into that, e.g. build123d.

I can’t use FreeCAD myself, but then I don’t have a mechanical engineering background, so I was also learning the basic CAD workflow when I tried it. At work my colleagues (who occasionally 3D print some part) seem happy with it, and keep telling me I should use a proper CAD to design parts.

Personally I’m happy with Blender, using it for my hobby 3D print designs. Most have some playful/artistic touch in addition to being functional, and Blender shines at that. But you totally can do a parametric design in Blender natively, it just won’t be a CAD workflow with the constraint solver you expect. The CAD plugins I have tried felt experimental. The native tools are very solid, and Blender is very polished and mature. But it is targeting expert users (including teams, since you asked about that). Learning Blender is an investment, it took me a long time. If you are still curious, look for a video demo/tutorial of someone designing a 3D part in Blender. Don’t just open it and expect to be able to do stuff, you will not figure out on your own which tools/modifiers you should use.

(And since you didn’t say what kind of CAD, also check out KiCad if you are doing PCBs!)

Easy: Most software is done when nobody uses it any more.

If the code you wrote 10 years ago still isn’t quite done yet, you should celebrate. If someone still cares enough to consider it broken, or can think of improvements, it means that it is useful. In contrast to: finished and done with.

I see where this comes from, but it’s funny because F-Droid is the very last place where I expect this to happen. Right after hell freezes over. Imagine them listing their own app with an anti-feature from their list: https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/

Yes. I’m here for the long tail, the niche communities. And what do I see? Not enough photos of houseplants! Come on, you must have some too. And to add to the list, !books@lemmy.world looks nice.

I’m still proud of my rendering of the logistic map. It was mostly just to learn more Rust, but it rendered this beatuiful picture with relatively little code. And mostly by accident, I didn’t know I would get those cool shadows!