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I had a Quest 2 for a while before I gave it to my sister, and I really liked it. You can play some games directly on the headset from its onboard storage, or you can play games from a PC over wifi or a link cable. I was very impressed with it given the low price point, and my sister loves using it to this day. I'd say it's a good entry to VR if you don't want to put a big investment into it.
 
Also, there's no difference between the Meta and Oculus Quest 2 - Oculus is owned by Meta.

I had a Quest 2 for a while before I gave it to my sister, and I really liked it. You can play some games directly on the headset from its onboard storage, or you can play games from a PC over wifi or a link cable. I was very impressed with it given the low price point, and my sister loves using it to this day. I'd say it's a good entry to VR if you don't want to put a big investment into it.
 
Also, there's no difference between the Meta and Oculus Quest 2 - Oculus is owned by Meta.

Thank you. You made me a hero before I had to then send them away to school!

I think the simplest way to install it is to use the CurseForge launcher - https://www.curseforge.com/download/app . It's a mod manager that supports many different games, including Minecraft. It's been a long while since I set it up for the first time, but I think it should automatically detect Minecraft if it's already installed.
 
After you've set that up, select Minecraft from the home menu and enter "pixelmon" in the search bar that appears at the top of the window. The result you want to install is titled "The Pixelmon Modpack". After that, it will appear in the "My Modpacks" tab and can be launched from there.
 
Hope this helps!

From https://frontiergroup.org/resources/fact-file-computing-is-using-more-energy-than-ever/
 
"In 2020, the information and communication technology sector as a whole, including data centers, networks and user devices, consumed about 915 TWh of electricity, or 4-6% of all electricity used in the world."
 
"Data centers consumed 240-340 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022..."
 
"Globally, cryptocurrency mining consumed 110 TWh of electricity in 2022."
 
That's interesting, but we still don't really know how much of that total is from home computing. Let's see what the US Energy Information Administration has to say about it: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-electricity.php
 
In the USA, home computers and their related equipment account for only 2.3% of residential energy usage. That's only about 34.5TWh. Heating and cooling take up the most energy usage compared to all other categories by far. So, home computers, at least in the USA, consume a lot less electricity than you might imagine. This makes sense - the average user doesn't have a high-power i7 or an RTX 4090, they're more likely to have an i3 or i5 and a basic graphics card, if not just integrated graphics.
 
The people who run datacenters don't take energy efficiency lightly either. They have massive electricity bills to manage, so getting the most computing power per watt is going to be a priority.

From https://frontiergroup.org/resources/fact-file-computing-is-using-more-energy-than-ever/
 
"In 2020, the information and communication technology sector as a whole, including data centers, networks and user devices, consumed about 915 TWh of electricity, or 4-6% of all electricity used in the world."
 
"Data centers consumed 240-340 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022..."
 
"Globally, cryptocurrency mining consumed 110 TWh of electricity in 2022."
 
That's interesting, but we still don't really know how much of that total is from home computing. Let's see what the US Energy Information Administration has to say about it: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-electricity.php
 
In the USA, home computers and their related equipment account for only 2.3% of residential energy usage. That's only about 34.5TWh. Heating and cooling take up the most energy usage compared to all other categories by far. So, home computers, at least in the USA, consume a lot less electricity than you might imagine. This makes sense - the average user doesn't have a high-power i7 or an RTX 4090, they're more likely to have an i3 or i5 and a basic graphics card, if not just integrated graphics.
 
The people who run datacenters don't take energy efficiency lightly either. They have massive electricity bills to manage, so getting the most computing power per watt is going to be a priority.

Here's what I see in the file you posted:
 
 
Are you printing it like how it's shown in the image? If so, then that's the source of your issues. The main problem is that you have a very large overhang - that's the long horizontal segment. 3D printers can't print out in the air like that without using supports. The second issue is that you have a small portion of the print touching the print bed relative to its size. This means your print is more likely to accidentally come off the print bed.
 
For the best chance of success, lay your model flat like this:
 

Yes and yes. Qt is very widely used in commercial applications and is my personal favorite library for creating GUIs. Lots of popular programs use it, like Davinci Resolve, VirtualBox, and OBS Studio.
 
I believe you'd want to look into NodeJS to run JavaScript like that. However, I wouldn't bother with JavaScript unless you want to go into web development.

It seems to use 5V, although this actually doesn't matter for your use case. All you need to do to turn the PC on/off is bridge the two power switch pins, using a relay or transistor. This is the same reason you can turn a PC on with a screwdriver if you don't have a power button hooked up.

It seems to use 5V, although this actually doesn't matter for your use case. All you need to do to turn the PC on/off is bridge the two power switch pins, using a relay or transistor. This is the same reason you can turn a PC on with a screwdriver if you don't have a power button hooked up.

updated a computer at work, and amongst other changes, swapped the super shitty e-waste keyboard that flexed from a single finger touch, to a new mechanical keyboard.

Helping the user when he's back:  
"Now I just need to find the Enter Key"

....  It's in the exact same place as the old keyboard.

30 seconds later:
"Now where's the caps lock key"

....  again, it's in the /exact/ same place it was before.
 
(Yes, you should be crying for me here)

A while back I was helping a coworker fix some build errors he was having on a software project we were working on. We eventually got it working, but his method of debugging was to just look on StackOverflow and copy/paste random commands into his terminal until the errors were resolved. He was doing it all so fast that there was NO way he actually read what he was copying. Needless to say, that was... concerning to watch.
 
 

A while back I was helping a coworker fix some build errors he was having on a software project we were working on. We eventually got it working, but his method of debugging was to just look on StackOverflow and copy/paste random commands into his terminal until the errors were resolved. He was doing it all so fast that there was NO way he actually read what he was copying. Needless to say, that was... concerning to watch.
 
 

A while back I was helping a coworker fix some build errors he was having on a software project we were working on. We eventually got it working, but his method of debugging was to just look on StackOverflow and copy/paste random commands into his terminal until the errors were resolved. He was doing it all so fast that there was NO way he actually read what he was copying. Needless to say, that was... concerning to watch.
 
 

That's most likely the sound of a relay turning on/off, and it's completely normal. I have multiple power supplies that make the same noise. 

That's most likely the sound of a relay turning on/off, and it's completely normal. I have multiple power supplies that make the same noise. 

That's most likely the sound of a relay turning on/off, and it's completely normal. I have multiple power supplies that make the same noise. 

That's most likely the sound of a relay turning on/off, and it's completely normal. I have multiple power supplies that make the same noise. 

So are Windows and MacOS evangelists.  If you're avoiding trying something just because someone else is telling you its the best thing sinced sliced bread, the problem is more you than them.
 
Make your own judgement call from experience, not gut reactions.
 
I think the bigger problem is most people want an OS that is one size fits all, and arguably even Windows isn't that, its just the closest we have to that.  So people choose Windows as they don't want to have to switch OS to do different things.

Also given people are used to using their smartphone for some things, a PC for others, they REALLY don't fancy having a third option of choosing which OS on their PC is the best for the job they want to do.

The first time I ever had to take off/reinstall a heatsink was when I upgraded my first gaming PC's CPU to a Core 2 Quad. I forgot to buy thermal paste so I decided I'd just use the stuff that was already on the old CPU. The problem was that this PC was around 10 years old at the time, so the existing thermal paste was completely dried up. Being excited with one of my first major upgrades, I decided to just scrape off the dried crumbles of thermal paste and scatter them on the new CPU, and surprisingly, it worked. It never thermal throttled and could play games all day long.
 
A few months later, I replaced the dried thermal paste with toothpaste. That also worked great.

Visited my parents' house and found the CPU my first PC came with, a Core 2 Duo E6700. I remember it being decently capable for work and light gaming, but I eventually replaced it with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 once I graduated from just playing Minecraft and flash games. I still have that system - might pop this CPU back in to see how it fares in 2024.
 

Visited my parents' house and found the CPU my first PC came with, a Core 2 Duo E6700. I remember it being decently capable for work and light gaming, but I eventually replaced it with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 once I graduated from just playing Minecraft and flash games. I still have that system - might pop this CPU back in to see how it fares in 2024.
 

If this is meant to go on your personal machine, I highly recommend keeping the desktop environment. It makes everyday use much easier.
 
That being said, if you'd like to have Debian boot to a terminal by default, run the command:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target  
To have it boot to the GUI, run this:
systemctl set-default graphical.target  
Alternatively, if you want to switch to a terminal from your desktop, use Ctrl+Alt+F* https://wiki.debian.org/Console. On my system, Ctrl+Alt+F3 brings me to a terminal and Ctrl+Alt+F2 brings me back to the graphical environment.
 
If you'd like to keep the GUI but have it use less resources, you can install a lightweight desktop environment. Xfce and Lxde seem to be popular for this.

The first time I ever had to take off/reinstall a heatsink was when I upgraded my first gaming PC's CPU to a Core 2 Quad. I forgot to buy thermal paste so I decided I'd just use the stuff that was already on the old CPU. The problem was that this PC was around 10 years old at the time, so the existing thermal paste was completely dried up. Being excited with one of my first major upgrades, I decided to just scrape off the dried crumbles of thermal paste and scatter them on the new CPU, and surprisingly, it worked. It never thermal throttled and could play games all day long.
 
A few months later, I replaced the dried thermal paste with toothpaste. That also worked great.

If this is meant to go on your personal machine, I highly recommend keeping the desktop environment. It makes everyday use much easier.
 
That being said, if you'd like to have Debian boot to a terminal by default, run the command:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target  
To have it boot to the GUI, run this:
systemctl set-default graphical.target  
Alternatively, if you want to switch to a terminal from your desktop, use Ctrl+Alt+F* https://wiki.debian.org/Console. On my system, Ctrl+Alt+F3 brings me to a terminal and Ctrl+Alt+F2 brings me back to the graphical environment.
 
If you'd like to keep the GUI but have it use less resources, you can install a lightweight desktop environment. Xfce and Lxde seem to be popular for this.