How does it look like at day?

Just for personal use. I’m a creative person and have lots of time for that, but no money.

So I just use my skills (many of which I aquire by doing exactly that) and build them to my own vision 😇 I wanna play musical instruments, but just buying something isn’t personal enough for me. The DIY route gives me a very unique object in the end.

Doing that isn’t easy tho. I have absolutely no experience with making music or playing instruments, so everything is done by research. For example:

• The strings of the tagelharpa, opposed to for example a violin, consist of up to 30 individual strings each, with the correct ratio of nylon to sewing thread (and I even included a few metal strings on the drone), which need to be twisted to create the characteristic deep dark sound
• Or, the steelpan needs to be tempered very specifically and then tuned by hammering on the note fields. Also very hard to do, and that’s the step I’m currently struggling with 😬

That’s the spirit! You got it!

Basically Kintsugi, but made by someone 13-year-old mentally 😂 Exactly what I imagined too

Just make sure you don’t inhale any fumes from the plastic

If nothing else works, maybe make the best out of it, grab a lighter (or soldering iron) and just burn a cool pattern on it?

I already built a tagelharpa cello. Sounds great, but I currently have to upgrade the tuning pegs to proper ones because they don’t hold the tone.

And a dulcimer-harp-thing out of my broken washing machine. Works great, but the tuning pegs are impractical and need to be exchanged for better screws. I also wanna try out different string patterns and materials. Has a very heavenly echo!

My rain stick is also almost ready. Only needs a few minutes more of painting. No pic yet.

Currently I’m also building a handpan/ steelpan hybrid. Very WIP

I haven’t had the chance to post them on c/DIY, but will do it once I feel they’re truly finished

There’s an official Eurorack variant available too! Here it is

Sure, you may have a point. Or not, I don’t know, really.

But can we maybe just agree that it looks fancy? You’re literally creating music out of thin air. That’s why it was called “Etherophone” at first, because you touch the ether itself and create harmony ^(or, in my case, weird mosquito noises and sirens...)^

You usually don’t “wave” your arms blindly in the air, you have a defined set of fingering positions and movements. Once you’ve learned them, they’re in muscle memory, just like typing on a touchscreen keyboard instead of a physical one.

You actually have a huge scale range. The octaves are defined by the location of your hand, the notes themselves are by the fingers. It’s supposed to be pretty accurate and makes sense from what I’ve heard?

I couldn’t think of always hitting the exact correct note out of hundreds just by a slider.

If you want something with a slider, theres the Stylophone Theremin

They are just the screw holes. No other use I know of

Regarding the stuff you want to do: it doesn’t matter what distro you pick, they can all run the same stuff anyways.

I would recommend something Fedora-based, because that’s most people recommend. It’s very sane and user friendly. Bazzite would be the best pick imo, but the classic Fedora KDE variant is also good for most people.

All other of your questions, like gaming stuff, are (or will) be answered anyways by a dozen other people here.

But I can give you some perspective regarding CAD and video editing.

CAD on Linux sucks. Most is made as Windows only, and many people have tried running it through Wine (Bottles) or other janky methods. Don’t even try it.
FreeCAD is also not the best choice in my personal opinion, especially if you come from other CAD software. But you can try it of course, maybe you’ll like it.

The only “proper” recommendation, and what I also use personally, is Onshape. It’s browser based, intuitive to use, has a good UX and many features. Downside: it’s proprietary and browser based, including all your files. If the company behind it decides to piss in your face, there is nothing that will stop them.

Video editing is a lot better.
As you already mentioned, there’s Davinci Resolve, which is available for Linux too.
I recommend you, especially if you choose Bazzite or any other distro where it isn’t available officially, to check out Distrobox and install it from there, so it won’t mess up the rest of your host OS.
But maybe try Kdenlive first. It’s a one click install and works great too, while being FOSS on top.

I’ve had something similar a while ago. Trying a different distro or doing stuff on the software side didn’t help.

What fixed the issue was getting a new hard drive because the old one was breaking down.

But maybe try other approaches first

None at all tbh, at least if you use the PC alone and don’t share a lot of stuff with Windows devices. If you do, then maybe scan .exe or other files (e-mail attatchments, etc.) with ClamAV or similar to prevent spreading stuff.

You usually don’t need AV software because you install stuff differently than on Windows. You don’t hunt .exe-files from random internet sites, thats irresponsible even for Windows.

You install your apps directly from your software center (a frontend for Flatpaks and repo software), where they usually are pretty safe.

Also, sandboxing is a thing. The prefered way for most people (and often default) is via Flatpak, where apps are restricted on what they can access and do. You can lock them down even further if you want.

There are more ways of sandboxing, but those are not so relevant here right now.

Also:

• If you run a script, check it first. I have zero clue in regards of coding, but even I can usually guess what each line is supposed to do.
• Don’t add 3rd party repos if you can, use containers instead
• Go for the easiest route, guides for “Linux” aren’t noob friendly. In your case, search for “Mint” instead, most stuff is pretty easy there.

Of course. That’s why it’s called KDE Plasma and not KDE Liquid or KDE Gaseous

Does it offer Nextcloud integration?

No need to excuse, please! ✌️

What I meant with my answer is just to notice you to take everything a LLM says with a grain of salt. I liked your idea and will definitely try to apply it!

I’ll update you here in this community when it is ready ☺️

I think I’m gonna print this out as a sticker, thanks! 🤗

It’s good that you already tried to research, but don’t trust ChatGPT for that. That answer sucked :)

Why? Because resins are a mixture of biopolymers, terpenes, acids, and much more.
Not one single thing.

While it may be soluble in alcohol, it will leave a super sticky residue once it evaporates.
You don’t wanna have that as perfume.

Also, many of the polymers will parcipitate out of solution in a matter of days. That’s a property some chemists use to refine extracts, for example for cannabis crude oil to get a smoother smoking experience 🙃

What you really want are the essentials oils (mostly terpenes). You can get them by steam distillation.

Do you want that I do that? I have a distill at home 😁 lol

I made three quality grades.

I will try the finest one for ointments and chewing gum, the middle grade as incense, and the one that looks like a turd maybe as fire starter?

The best one was from the cotton bag, the second from the shopping net, and the worst one was the filter cake from the ones above.

Any ideas for good uses?

Root rot?

Obsidian or Logseq.

I’ve used Logseq for my lab journal, thoughts, and whatsoever, and it works excellent for that.

• You can link different things/ dates with each entry
• Markdown
• Functions and querys
• Local
• Very flexible
• And you can find pretty much every thought you’ve ever had, nothing is lost.

It can be tricky tho if you want to collaborate, because the sync isn’t perfect yet, but the devs are working really hard on it