For your price point, used market is definitely the way to go.

A lot of the older Lumix compacts are quite good and have an interchangeable lens mount, like the GX800/GX850/GF9, but the prices of those will vary depending on where you live. Many of the Sony bodies can be had for quite cheap too, and those have a vast ecosystem to good third-party lenses, like the A6x00 series (A6000, 6100, 6300, 6400, etc.)

Interchangeable lens cameras should be preferred for an equally priced fixed lens option, as you get a lot more versatility!

the pictures don’t have to be as good as a Galaxy S25, but still ideally decent quality as I said.

Don’t worry, any dedicated camera will have better photo quality than a smartphone due to simply having a MUCH larger sensor, and you will also get the versatility of interchangeable lenses or, for fixed lens cameras, optical zoom.

I don’t know anything about photography. Just want to point and shoot, the same way I use my Samsung Galaxy phone currently

I would suggest setting whatever camera you get into “aperture priority” mode, as then you can adjust depth of field (how much of the background becomes blurred, particularly useful for longer focal lengths), but you don’t need to worry as much about shutter speed and ISO. It’s what I use, and whenever it’s a bit overexposed or underexposed, you can always use the exposure adjustment.

When you mentioned your self-hosted services and that self-hosted suggestions are welcome, I assumed you had some of that infrastructure setup already

I mentioned this as self-hosted services were going to be recommended anyways (because they’re awesome!), but for something that is public, it’s something I will do later rather than now.

Since you already run Immich; why not use it’s share links?

Because then I would need to set up a domain name, reverse proxy, and that sort. I don’t have the time to troubleshoot networking stuff, so locally hosted it is for now. When I do get the time, I will set that up!

And once you do have a 3D printer, you can mess around with Voron kits and build your own printer! 3D printing a 3D printer!

Yes, you are correct in avoiding Bambu. They have been pretty awful to their community, the open source community, and the media.

Prusa will be one of the most solid and reliable options you can get, reportedly amazing customer service and their machines are very repairable. However, if you have a tight budget, it won’t be as good “value” (at least purely based on performance), where Prusa is surpassed by printers like the Elegoo Centauri Carbon, Qidi Q2 (both CoreXY), and Sovol SV06 Ace (bedslinger). If you want multiple toolheads, Snapmaker’s U1 is neat and a lot cheaper than the equivalent Prusa XL.

Prusa has lots of great machines, but the “big dog” is definitely the Core One, which will later have the INDX tool changer upgrade path which is nest! If you’re okay with bedslingers, you have their MK4S as well as the Mini (which has a smaller build volume than most, check what kind of models you want to print first!)

TLDR: Elegoo, Qidi, Sovol, and Prusa all have great printers (many of which are far better value than Bambu machines to be honest, plus they will be more open too with better compatibility with third-party software), though Prusa is the most reliable and trustworthy. I believe Elegoo, Qidi, and Prusa all have their own versions of a multi material system, and Snapmaker (and later Prusa with the INDX) offer tool changers if that’s your jam.

pricing progression right now is sort of like this in my opinion:

• used market (e.g. older Prusa models)
• Sovol SV06 Ace (note: bedslinger!)
• Elegoo Centauri (no enclosure, CoreXY)
• Elegoo Centauri Carbon (enclosure, CoreXY)
• Qidi Q1 Pro or Q2 (CoreXY)
• Prusa MK4S (note: bedslinger!)
• Prusa Core One (CoreXY)

aside from various used models (OnePlus 6, Pixel 3a, various old Xiaomi devices, etc.), the Fairphones are your best bet when it comes to Linux phones (as you specify non-Android based projects). The Jolla phone might also be something worth looking at!

iodeOS, e/OS, GrapheneOS, and CalyxOS (they’ve come back, hooray!) are all great options if you want a degoogled Android ROM (but is still based on AOSP, so not fully independent) and are well supported on the Fairphones and Pixels, as well as a few other devices. These degoogled ROMs are the best option we have now, mobile Linux needs more time in the oven, and will give you more control over your device compared to stock Android! (don’t let perfect be the enemy of good and all that)

It’s satire about how PlayStation is going to go diskless (digital only), which a lot of people are very upset about. If you go to the PCMR subreddit or similar gaming communities on Reddit, you’ll see a lot of this there too about a variety of brands!

I believe this is satire, since PlayStation has announced they will move to be digital-only (if you go on any gaming communities on Reddit it’s filled with these style of posts)

I feel like some tricolours should get a pass. France and the Netherlands are the OGs, but many others are great too! Estonia’s is my favourite colour combination, but Germany, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria are pretty recognisable too. Sierra Leone and Gabon have pretty underrated tricolours too. There are some that are too similar to others, like those of Russia (very similar to the Dutch), Chad (nearly identical to Romania), and Italy (pretty close to France, in my opinion Mexico did the colour combo better with the cool eagle)

As for the bicolours, you have the triage of Poland, Monaco, and Indonesia who are really similar. Poland should add their eagle back to the flag, birds are cool and it’s deeply tied to their history, and Indonesia needs to spice their flag up to be more interesting. Monaco should probably be annexed into France, maybe they could be an autonomous province or something. Then you have Ukraine, who have a pretty neat flag that is easily recognisable, but yes it is a little boring.

Austria and Latvia are quite similar to each other too, the latter has a thinner strip that’s more unique, but I feel like both could be improved.

Wait, that’s an actual flag? What the heck people are weird man

I feel like if the U.S. redesigned their flag, they should definitely put an eagle on it. Birds are cool and should be on more flags!

I think it looks really cool too!

And the Swiss flag can be easily represented with a 5x5 grid of pixels, which is pretty cool!

There are many valid opinions, but these aren’t, I’m sorry to say

Laser kiwi is cool, and the proposals to include more Maori symbolism are great too!

The Swiss flag should stay the same, since all squares are rectangles! Plus you have the Vatican being quite square too

As an Aussie, green and gold is not an ugly combination, it’s one of the greatest!

Tricolours are cool, and they’re not all bad! Estonia’s is probably my favourite (all the Baltics have great flags), but France and the Netherlands were some of the OGs, and Germany is pretty distinct too. Gabon and Sierra Leone have pretty underrated tricolours too.

Some feedback:

As for Russia, I think some elements of the imperial flag should be used, but not its entirety, since it represents the monarchy who historically weren’t all too kind to their people for most of their reign. Perhaps a new flag, with a France-like vertical tricolour, a mixture of the imperial colours (yellow, maybe black) and the modern colours (red, maybe blue) could be formed to represent remembering Russia’s long past while also showing that they are stepping forward into the future.

I do think bringing the lion and sun flag would be great! It’s a lion holding a blade with the sun rising from its back, how cool is that? The image hasn’t loaded yet, but I do need to note that the flag should be the one without the crown, as that represents the authoritarian Shah. The crownless flag was actually adopted when the Shah was deposed for a democracy, but then the CIA had to muck everything up and depose Mossadegh to restore the U.S.-friendly Shah, and later you had the 1979 Islamic revolution and all that.

The Qasim flag does look really cool! No qualms about that one, I think it’s simply better than the current flag.

As for the Chinese flag, I do think that the current flag is a little boring, but it’s quite recognisable. However (speaking as somebody with Chinese ancestry), red is a lucky colour in Chinese culture, although the PRC officially defines the red on the flag to symbolise the communist struggle. I think a majorly red flag would be suitable for China, and additionally, the Qing flag represents the dynasty ruled by the Manchus rather than the majority Han Chinese, so I’m sure some people (particularly the older folk) would be upset by that. I personally enjoy the “five peoples” flag of the Beiyang republic, with five stripes representing the five major people groups of China, but since that specific iteration of China was plagued by corruption and all that, it’s not a popular option.

In my opinion, I think a majorly red flag would be good, but maybe not the central star with the four stars surrounding it (it represents the people surrounding the party). Personally, I would go for a yellow/gold Chinese dragon in the centre going around in a circle (symbolising how long China has existed, the “foreverness” of Chinese identity), a star in the middle if communism sticks around, and maybe some lions on either side as well, since those are also very important in China? Actually, maybe it could be lions on one side (representing the spirit of the Chinese people) and a flower / maybe some leaves / another plant (representing the kind and respectful culture of the Chinese people). I think that would be neat!

In the case of Belarus, I think the white red white would look pretty neat! Recognisable and has some historical background to it. I feel it’s a little bland though, maybe adding a third colour or some of the patterns would do it good?

It does look pretty neat! I don’t like the empty three corners though, I feel like it isn’t very space efficient.

I like the Maori flag more with the black and red and the fun swirl. Maybe they could do something like that?

Just note that specific flag is that of the Australian Aborigines and I believe does not include the Torres Strait Islanders, so it does not encompass the entirety of the Australian Indigenous peoples.

Still a very cool flag though, I think having a mix of symbolism from it as well as other elements would be good to create a truly Aussie flag! Some green and gold in there maybe, possibly a boomerang (featured in many flag proposals and generally looks super cool), and the red sand would be an interesting combination.

That’s still too many stars. Looks pretty neat though!

Canada seems as/more close to britain than Australia so it makes more sense to give a little Union Jack in the top left corner.

What is this blasphemy

It’s a little disorienting that the sun sets past 9 in Germany, where I live it’s usually around 5! I think it’s because Germany is a lot closer to the poles while I live nearer to the equator, and since the Earth is tilted to an axis, the days in Germany are longer during the summer. Still so strange for the Sun to set at 8pm though.