To be honest I don’t have 3d printer myself and rarely print to make a case, the electric bill really putting me off to own one. Most of time I used those pre-made abs plastic project box that you can cut/drill holes and come with various size. Other than that, sometime it feels “costly” to make something if you didn’t plan ahead or not really going to use the project.

Nothing more satisfying than making something that cheaper, and also exceed the quality of buying ready-to-use product.

CAD, EDA, IDE, and correct toolkits to the rescue!

EDIT: In case someone want to delve in hobbyist/maker/diy world, here are some useful stuffs that available free:
3D CAD:
Freecad - FOSS 3D CAD software that available cross-platform.
Autodesk Fusion - Not so great alternative but servicable, Free plan have certain limitation.

EDA:
KiCAD - Designing electronic project has never been so easy. This one far superior than Autodesk Eagle crap.
EasyEDA - Free online and desktop EDA software that can be used for alternative.

(Microcontroller) IDE:
VSCode/Codium + PlatformIO - Most affordable, off-the-shelf controller are programmable with PlatformIO and enough for most average joe projects. Arduino IDE may be superior for newcomer but I recommend this as you have more leeway in which framework and board you can get out of single extension for Text Editor.

Toolkits:
Digital Multimeter - Most common electronics can be troubleshoot’d with digital multimeter to identify the problem.
Cheap E-Bay caliper (or any cheap caliper) - For most DIY project, cheap digital caliper are enough to measure dimension unless you really need 3 digit precision.

As someone pointed out on the comment, one of the reason is Money, the other one is safety and security based on Vehicle manufacturer claim.

Yet, nobody can stop you to sniff and monitor your own car CAN/OBD2 interface using as simple as cheap microcontroller and compatible OBD2 interface kit (e.g CAN Transceiver/Controller kit).

EDIT: So far this curated list helpful to me for CAN bus based protocol.

Hmm… If we want to stretch something further… How do I know water that I drink is something new or clean instead of treated water, pure water or even perhaps dinosaur piss that has been filtered from underground soil long long time ago? 🤔😳

As long as the bare necessities is available e.g 14" with HDMI, 2 Type C with PD and DP Alt, MicroSD/SD card reader, smart card reader(?), 2 USB A 3.1, 1x 3.5mm jack, 1x ethernet port, kensington and easy maintenance, for me it’s enough. VGA connectors (dang those older projectors) can be handled with VGA to HDMI adapter.

My daily device is T14 G1 AMD with dualbooting separate SSD (M.2 WWAN slot used as SSD).

Ah the Tiny10 and Tiny11, never tried them before because I thought it can be buggy when windows update happen (heck even normal windows update can brick grub bootloader).

Maybe I will try to compare them against LTSC IoT just for shit and giggles sake of performance different before M$ phase Win10 out.

While I also have those Win 10 and 11 LTSC versions on my ventoy drive, I just wondering whether you can tweak further aside of uninstalling stuff through powershell and disabling services through registries because I just enjoy being superuser (questioning what is referred in this post image).

Yes I like collecting OS images and troubleshoot toolkit isos as Im being “IT Support” on my circles.

EDIT: I will read every comment on this post in case someone on comment have already elaborate further.

Yeah, setup win 10 install on qemu may need to jump some hoop, especually when you want to enable features like gpu pass through.

Although qemu may not be as easy as virtualbox/vmware, the performance is worth it.

Is there any guide to install this Debloated Windows? 🤔

So far what I used is to use debloater script and also to disable that windows update service related stuff. Just wondering whether there is more unhinged part in it.

Also no custom rom android image? because technically it use older and customized linux kernel.

Awh hell nah, no more JAAAAAAAAAAG :(

For games, you’d rather use game repacks as they sometime provide smaller package for downloading. The most common one are dodi, fitgirls, though other repacker like el amigos, KaOs krew, Mr Dj also available. If you don’t mind ddl, cs-rin.ru and torrminatorr also available.

Avoid IGG-Games they have shady history in case you use public tracker.

remember rtfm! Megathread, wiki, fmhy are available so you can browse easier as provided by the community.

Keycaps is where I always avoid because that’s what makes keyboard standout other than the overall produced sound.

Still saving for my keycaps sets

They def pricier on chassis, plate (foam too!) and ready-to-use designed pcb with components. However from my own experience building your own keyboard is fun especially when the result is as good as you expected from planning stage. Pure bliss.

Hello fellow 2hu youkai

Especially when they have luxury of lubed switches, foam, dampeners/stabilizers, custom case material (that keeb def. Custom one).

As someone that into mech keyboard hobby, I can say that’s still perceivable for average user as you still retain the familiar “qwerty” layout.

Look up stenograph keyboard. They have lesser keys but allows someone to write higher wpm and programmable though I don’t think they would fit for office environment.

Since not everyone is a car enthusiast, I doubt slight chance of them think of aero stuffs.

From my experience, I can install several repack without any issues on my Mint install (using wine). If you overwhelmed, the easiest way is to add the .exe of your game as non-steam game through the steam and the proton will handle the rest assuming you won’t find dependency issues, if you stumble across problem try to search protondb for solution.

Personally I run my games with wine because I couldn’t figure out how to make use of bottles and lutris (ye I’m weird).

EDIT: Also you can run your modded games on Linux, so far I have tried modded nfs mw (2005) with hard+, underground2, and new vegas, they are works like on Windows.

If shit happen, rtfm. gl op on your journey!

Woah, thanks for dropping the link. I did disable w10 update by modifying registry for each services which time consuming.

Probably they took what most avg user would see. Android? We have custom roms. AI Tools (assuming all of them?) Not even close.

But still find it hilarious that OP even have to post the correction.