https://www.amazon.ca/Dongle-EG25-G-M2M-optimized-Module-Global/dp/B096TQJR73/ref=sr_1_13

At this point, I’ve found a carrier that does 10GB for $17 a SIM (and I could probably get away with less data for cheaper), and I’d be fine with that. I have several rPis that act as hubs taking in LoRa data from things like solar pumps, water bowls and bins, but backhauling to the central server over LoRa is a pain, and we don’t have LoS to all of them so using radio bridges is spotty. Some sites are 10km away over hills. And moving everything to MQTT would make my life easier than my custom BS programming that has devices talking to each other directly.

We don’t generally have issues with phones and where I do, I can probably put up an antenna if the dongle has an external port, or I’m willing to spend extra $$ for an uplink with external. I currently have a Microhard LTE-CAT4 that I use on one remote site that seems to get good reception, but that unit is pretty pricy and I have to fart around with network cables and power when I could just be plugging in a USB dongle.

I see a lot of cheap ones on Amazon, but I was hoping someone had a common Linux specific model they know works, because most of those look pretty janky.

Not anymore. They completely divested that off to having to get RPM Fusion repos set up and then manually install the codecs.

As another user said, Nobara does all this, and I use Nobara myself. But Fedora itself has made all that harder.

FWIW, +1 for Nobara. I think it’s an excellent turnkey Fedora for most purposes. But it’s a little chancy on being dependent on a single maintainer.

But Fedora itself isn’t noob friendly when you have to figure out how to add the non-free repos and install all the rest of the shit. Nobara takes care of that well.

Oh, you need media codecs out of the box to watch pretty much anything in your browser?

That takes Fedora out.

OpenSUSE has probably the most confusing install interface for a noob you’ll ever find. Which DE do I choose? What other software do I put in? How do I partition? Oh, I click a button here to make a user, or can I ignore it completely?

So much for OpenSUSE.

And don’t get me started on Arch. You’d be way better off pushing a new user to Manjaro but everyone’s got their panties in a twist about its devs.

Whatcha got now, big guy?

Editing people are opinionated and capable of programming.

I do. Nobara specifically since it has the non-free repos and codecs by default, and a bunch of tweaks for gaming and editing already set up or easily added in the Welcome app.

While fish is easy to set up, I can’t even be arsed to do that most times, so bash ends up being the one I use most.

Except it wasn’t an exclusive choice question, it was multi-selection. So you could choose more than one OS (or distro). So this really doesn’t give much of an idea what the main OS is that people use. But it’s still going to be way higher than general users.

Linux use among devs is much higher than gen pop.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system

Keep in mind, this adds up to more than 100% because it wasn’t an exclusive choice question, it was multiple.

It’ll come back.

That’s all I’ve done, or imaged it to a new drive. Linux is glorious for portability.

Might be time to haul the Pinephone back out.

SaaS

owned

Pick one.

Yah, the pervasive surveillance should help immensely and totally not be used against the people.

I doubt anyone that still watches ads in some format is the target demographic.

Don’t sweat it. There were people doing advanced things in Windows that would probably have blown your mind as well. It’s just that most people that use Linux just enjoy tinkering for the sake of tinkering so it’s more visible, and Linux lends itself to people doing weird and wonderful things never envisioned by it’s creators.

You just started on the road, where you stop is entirely up to you. Just know that the view is way more interesting going this route. Take a few pictures on the way.

Which is why I’m saying I don’t buy it. Hibernate is notoriously terrible in every distro because it’s not working right for most cases because the kernel doesn’t do it well. And I know that’s really not the kernels fault, because every manufacturer has some stupid implementation of S4 (and S3, frankly) that makes it fail.

Hibernate works

Yah, I’m not buying that.

That’s a lot of bug fixes.