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I guess you have some kind of linux based system of your home server. The USB connection to the printer will create a Serial Interface in your system under /dev. How it is called depends on the USB chip used in your printer, but often this is something like ttyUSB0.

So when connecting the printer you get the device file /dev/ttyUSB0 (or similar) on your home server (yes, the Serial interface is just a special file on that level). You can now mount this device file into the docker container like any other hostfile via the volume option.

Like docker run -v /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0 octoprint or by using the volumes key for your octoprint service in the docker-compose file, providing the same string as in the docker run command.

I think that should work, though I haven’t tested it.

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I listen to audiobooks a lot, but mostly (like 95% of the time) I`m only listening to books that I’ve read as book previously. I love to dive back into these beloved stories again without needing to put in the extra time for reading them again. I hear them for example when I’m walking my dog (which is already like 1,5h each day).

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Isn’t this like browsing any website? Each instance is a website. Browsing the website will give them your IP address. You can see, that the current content ist coming from another instance by checking the name (though I don’t know if every app shows the instance in that way). And as Lemmy is a Link aggregator (to my knowledge) it will provide links.

But of course we can discuss if lemmy instances should proxy all interactions with other instances. Coming with its own problems.

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The average user only uses what is already in their devices or very easily obtained and already known by them. On PCs you got Windows and Microsoft of course pushes their products (Edge, MS Office, OneDrive,…). On Smartphones you have Apple and Google controlling the devices way more than with PCs and being Gatekeepers through their appstores and preinstalled apps. Why would the average user try to research to find FOSS alternatives in that big pile of proprietary and monetized apps or jump through hoops to actually use them (keeping things FOSS is not easy on smartphone due to policies from google and apple)? The big players are controlling the market and they try to only allow FOSS when it benefits them.

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One big problem that I see with the current system is, that - like everything in capitalism - it works with the attention economy. Big projects with many functions (like computing platforms) get much attention, especially from companies, who donate and contribute for their own good. But there are many small projects, often small libraries, that are developed by single persons for free, but used everywhere. If I remember correctly the disaster with log4j was such a case. Real developers surely know even better examples. The funding of such widely used software can effect the security of our whole IT stack.

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And the PineTime as an Open Source Smartwatch. I’m not using much of the fitness tracker functionality, but counting my steps is very important for me.

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Wait, since when do they give a “refund” for content that is no longer available? A while ago I bought the first season of Fringe (knowing that I don’t actually own it), but I got nothing, when it was pulled. Do I need to ask explicitly for that gift card?

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No, I’m german, so similar levels of consumer protection. Not that I’ve looked for a refund. I just never thought of it as possible. Maybe I should look into it the next time

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Occam’s razor, because it seem it is often used wrong by using it for just shutting down possible explanations. Typically noone mentions, that this is about guessing probabilities without prior knowledge and not a way to completely ignore an explanation.

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I’m going with the niche german option: Jan Philip Zymny. He is a former Poetry Slammer and writes hilarious dadaistic texts. An he can also do that spontaneous together with the audience.

And of course the german comedian Thorsten Sträter.

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