Personal data is the new 'oil'

A Thunderbolt cable will handle the required bandwidth from the dock to the laptop.

Your phone, do you expect to pass data via the phone and your laptop (eg photos/videos?) If you do then a USB 3.2 10 Gbps cable would be the most you would need (€25), costs may stear you towards a simple charging cable something around 60w (€10) would be ample BUT you phone may not fast charge due to Samsung's charging preference.

HDMI 2.1 would be ample for a your monitor (4k resolution at 120fps) and the cost difference between this (€13) and 2.0 (€10) is minimal nowerdays

Ethernet is easy, CAT5e in the colour/length of your choice would supply the potential max 2.5gb Ethernet port you have (€8 for 10meters). Higher the CAT rating the more costly the cable.

Additional Thunderbolt ports would be best used/reserved for high-speed external storage or even a gaming GPU.

The fact your asking about these items shows you should be pretty much covered for the next few years of 'fitire proofing'

I wouldn't worry about the value difference too much but more the consistency. If you need 75 degrees on the edge then keep dialing up the temp until you get it.

It's most likely only going to affect large prints at the end of the day.

Your printer will measure the bed from a single location so moving your IR sensor will vary across the bed. If your using a custom firmware I'm sure you could set this as an offset assuming your IR thermometer is accurate ;)

Heat of the bed will be the warmest point and the periphery cooler (just like your body temp)

It's a great question. I am missing certain content from the niche sub-reddits and trying hard not to fall back to Reddit.

Some of this 'reposting' will help the community to add comments/interaction but as you mention may turn this platform into a leech.

Either way people implementing Bots helps the moderation teams to some extent.

Running DVB-S2 for many years and SAT>IP (think of it as Satellite decoding to rstp) seems to be the way. I've not thought about a smaller PC to host my current card and welcome your suggestion. I'd github'd minisatip a few weeks ago and the penny didn't drop!

I had planned to go for an Enigma2 based device and go from there.

DSP is a game I would love in the Deck. I can imagine it would be difficult to manipulate. I thought about trying to use the Gyro to aid movement in some way but never tried.

I did spend around 4 hours overall on Shapez

https://shapez.io/

Local saves only from the non Steam version though.

I noticed a buymeacoffee link in settings last week. Goto settings and scroll all the way down for the following URL

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kurononeko

This guy fibers!

Docker is a method of virtualization on an application level.

You host a container platform on your computer and this allows you to utilise containers.

Example of Containers are applications such as

Plex Sonarr Pihole

Each container is a 'complete' platform with all the dependencies included - your container platform supplies Disk/CPU/Ram and network for the Container to function.

Containers can be based on operating systems that are different to your computer.

Using containers mean you have a very easy way of trying an Application without installing to your native operating system.

Let us know if you have a NAS /PC /Server and we can tailor the answer further.

I've always been too lazy to look up the reason for the change of name. Today I did: https://www.linux.com/news/ethereal-changes-name-wireshark/

TLDR: Authors previous employer trademarked the Ethereal name on the Authors behalf, the author moved jobs and couldn't negotiate the transfer to him - thus Wireshark was born.

Thanks for this clear detail.

Are you able to advise what recommendations you would suggest for the Steam Deck.

From memory a U3 card is recommended in the size of our choice?

High quality post, thanks for sharing.