mcdanlj

mcdanlj, 1 day ago to random

In order to help someone build an "open source" project that was built with windows-only proprietary tools, I need to install Windows on a computer at least for a while. I think I spent at least an hour trying to create bootable media on someone else's windows computer before finding a comment buried somewhere that the windows media tool just silently fails to work with sandisk thumbdrives, with no information shown.

Compare that to Linux iso images that can just be written to a USB drive and still work (thanks to H. Peter Anvin's work many years ago) and work just fine on those same sandisk drives.

mcdanlj, 2 days ago to random

Just as the new KP.2 covid variant takes off in the US, North Carolina sends anti-masking legislation through the legislature and passes at least one chamber. We have some immoral legislators.

North Carolina gets some things quite right, but this is not one of them. 😬

mcdanlj, 3 days ago to random

How long has #FreeCAD had the TechDraw dimension repair tool? Have I been replacing instead of repairing dimensions for a long time needlessly? Will the TNP mitigations make it into TechDraw and make dimension repair infrequently needed?

mcdanlj, 5 days ago to random

I've finally built #FreeCAD for myself, with the TNP mitigation enabled. Now every time I see something cool in the @FreeCAD WIP Wednesday posts I can play with it without waiting for a new weekly build. ☺

mcdanlj, 7 days ago to fedora

I decided to try building #FreeCAD from source. I used a F39 toolbox on my #Fedora 40 #Silverblue and installed the prereqs; most from packages, but pyside2 from pip (inside the toolbox) since it hasn't been packaged in Fedora for years. The segfault I'm getting from libshiboken isn't illuminating to me. I could imagine a missing dependency on a package causing a segfault, or maybe no one is building FreeCAD on Fedora and it just doesn't work on F39. 🤔

Not clear that I'm close enough to the beaten path for this to be worth a bug report, though. Quite likely PEBCAK...

mcdanlj, 9 days ago to fedora

The #FreeCAD stable build Appimages don't work on #Fedora 40 which is making it hard for me to test a fix I've been working on in the Lattice2 workbench to make it work in current weekly builds as well as stable releases. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/12894 which requires workbenches and macros to be changed.

I'm a novice on Lattice2, so I'd appreciate testing of all the functionality of the workbench both on recent development builds and on stable FreeCAD. I want to make sure that the fix is complete and correct on both stable and development versions before suggesting that it is ready to merge.

If you use git to install workbenches, you can do something like this if you want to test and help:

cd .local/share/FreeCAD/Mod/lattice2<br></br>git remote add johnsonm git@github.com:johnsonm/Lattice2.git<br></br>git fetch johnsonm<br></br>git checkout johnsonm/mkj-attachment-support<br></br>

Feel free to comment on the pull request itself or here, I'll see it either way.

mcdanlj, 16 days ago to fedora

I'm on #Fedora #Silverblue 40, and I'm now seeing a lot of "No video with supported format and MIME type found" errors.

I don't have mozilla-openh264 installed, so I guess that might make sense? Let's fix that...

# rpm-ostree install mozilla-openh264<br></br>...<br></br>error: Could not depsolve transaction; 1 problem detected:<br></br> Problem: package noopenh264-0.1.0~openh264_2.4.0-1.fc40.x86_64 from @System conflicts with openh264 provided by openh264-2.4.0-2.fc40.x86_64 from fedora-cisco-openh264<br></br>  - package openh264-2.4.0-2.fc40.x86_64 from fedora-cisco-openh264 obsoletes noopenh264 < 1:0 provided by noopenh264-0.1.0~openh264_2.4.0-1.fc40.x86_64 from @System<br></br>  - package mozilla-openh264-2.4.0-2.fc40.x86_64 from fedora-cisco-openh264 requires openh264(x86-64) = 2.4.0-2.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed<br></br>  - conflicting requests<br></br># rpm -qa | grep noopenh264<br></br>noopenh264-0.1.0~openh264_2.4.0-1.fc40.x86_64<br></br># rpm-ostree install --uninstall noopenh264 mozilla-openh264<br></br>error: Package/capability 'noopenh264' is not currently requested<br></br>

There's clearly something I don't understand here. I don't know how noopenh264 is installed but not requested and still causes a conflict. I must be alone in having this problem based on lack of bugs that I can find in RH's bugzilla.

I don't think I saw this problem on Silverblue 39, but I was using that for only a few days before rebasing on 40, and was previously on my "classic" Fedora 39 installation where it definitely wasn't showing up with the rpmfusion packages installed.

mcdanlj, 23 days ago to random

Cannot. Roll. Out. Soon. Enough.

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-messages-might-let-you-disable-its-crazy-animations-soon

mcdanlj, 25 days ago to random

Monport spam has shown up with a new tactic. In response to someone asking for help with an Omtech machine, they wrote some vague "well try something else" and praised Monport tech support, and suggested reaching out to Monport for support. For an Omtech machine. The text appeared to be designed to poison consumer sentiment AI summaries to favor Monport.

I don't care whether this is currently considered fraud by a legal definition. It is clearly a morally corrupt attempt to manipulate buyers. Before you buy anything from #monport please consider whether you want to support this kind of behavior.

It's still less work to manually approve every legit post on Maker Forums about Monport than confirm and clean up all the arriving spam about Monport.

#lasercutter #laserengraver

mcdanlj, 29 days ago to random

First papercut with #Silverblue — I have roughly forever kept a symlink /m → /media/johnsonm because I really don't like typing all that.

I built a local package with that symlink to get my symlink back, and then when I tried to install it immediately hit https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/233 which it says to "see" but that's not super useful.

As far as I can tell that's "u kant haz" and I'll have to retrain my fingers to something else. 😢

mcdanlj, 29 days ago to random

I hoped that by copying the #restic cache to my new computer the first backup after the move would be as fast as normal. It's not; it has to re-read all the files.

But at least Restic doesn't store redundant copies of all the files! 🎉

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to fedora

I have upgraded my personal laptop to #Fedora #Silverblue just in time for the upgrade to Fedora 40 to be an update in the background and then a trivial, quick reboot into the upgraded system with an option to roll back if something goes wrong.

I started this update in December, by starting with a new (larger) drive. I put it into a USB-3 NVME carrier, attached it to a VM, and did an install and updates until it looked like I got the software I wanted complete.

Then an unrelated hardware failure made me back-burner it until tonight. I booted the VM, did a quick rpm-ostree upgrade, and rebooted the VM into the latest release. Four months of updates and it was fast and trivial. Copied my home directory over from the old drive to the new drive, popped it in, and I'm up and running.

I'm really looking forward to not watching minutes of updates scroll by with the system unusable at the boot screen.

And if I need any files from the old install, I have the old drive in the USB-3 NVME carrier. ☺

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

Huh. I have totally done this, and I'll bet that at least one broken tap was a result. I thought I didn't need to make some tap holders. But I was wrong. One more rite of passage after the tap followers I made!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0PBPGjd0Pc

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to 3DPrinting

I just learned that Prusa are childishly blocking all links from @cults3d after I complained at their workaround that was a pain when I tried to share on Cults a link to Printables for an alternative to one of my designs.

https://3dp.chat/@cults3d/112291160322661415

Most of my public designs I've been sharing on both Cults and Printables for a while, but this makes me consider taking my designs off Printables. I probably won't, because I don't want to punish users for Prusa's bad behavior, but I'm unlikely to keep posting new designs there when Prusa is actively blocking normal use of the web in a user-hostile way.

Unlike Cults, who are active here, I get the impression that @josefprusa is a post-only account and I can't imagine that he cares what I think.

#3dprinting @3dprinting

mcdanlj, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Some months ago, I created a replacement filter box for the Qidi X-Max 3. Today, I found that someone has remixed a "Bento box" filter for the X-Max 3. Mine is an exhaust filter; the "bento box" is a recirculating filter. So I wanted to link to the Bento box as an alternative to my design for anyone who wants a recirculating filter.

It happens that the bento box is on printables.

@cults3d appears to be intentionally breaking links to printables, as you can see in the description for my model there.

My link to my detailed instructions on Maker Forums works, but the link to printables next to it is broken. I have tried multiple times to edit the description to have a working link, but with no luck. It's not a typo in my text.

Come on guys, do better. This kind of anti-user behavior isn't good when large companies do it, and it's not actually any better when small ones do it.

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

It looks like the Mastodon roadmap doesn't yet have anything listed for moving away from Redis to one of the open source forks. I'm wondering whether there has been discussion of Redict vs. Valkey for the future? #mastoadmin

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

I think that flatpak isolation is great and I'm glad it isolates apps from each other. Of course there is a side effect of having to start over from scratch on app configuration.

Does #flatpak publish metadata about location of configuration such that installing a flatpak could give an option of moving application configuration (say, from ~/.config or just ~/.somedotfile) into flatpak config, possibly leaving a symlink in place in order to share configuration with native versions of apps?

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

My eclipse was overcast, and that was better than I expected.

My cell phone camera had been compensating for the light as I took occasional pictures as the light slowly dimmed before totality, but I discovered that video was a lot more representative.

As totality arrived, I spent my time actually looking directly at my surroundings, but I was also holding up my cell phone recording what I was looking at.

This is a still from that video from during totality, looking south. There's just a little bit of light visible in distant clouds. A fire is in the foreground. A person in a light-colored shirt standing less than two meters from the camera is barely visible at the left side. The clouds are dark. The overall illumination is similar to deep twilight.

mcdanlj, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I saw a cybertoy^H^Hruck in real life for the first time today, riding on a transporter.

It was painted flat black.

I am amazed that anyone would be seen in that monstrosity even for free, let alone paying for the dubious privilege.

I suppose flat black might be an improvement over blotchy rust?

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

The cloud cover maps for Monday look a lot like the path of totality maps. 😬

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to woodworking

I'm looking for anyone who has a Pratt Burnerd lever-closing collet chuck of any kind, and/or anyone who has a manual for one. Pratt Burnerd don't seem to keep them on their web site; fair enough, this has been out of production for decades. But I'm crazy enough to have bought what is apparently one of the few D1-5 PB LC-15s ever made (because I wanted a collet chuck with similar capacity to my spindle) and I'm trying to bring it back to life.

Photos or scans of the manual for any of their lever-closing (or maybe even pneumatic-closing "PC") chucks, or any teardown pictures or videos you know of, would be helpful. I'd like to be a good steward of this piece of machining history.

#machinist #machining #lathe

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

Oh no. Oh no oh no. This will not end well for software in general. We've never before had an "un-leap" skipped second and even the occasional leap seconds in the past where they weren't new have caused us a lot of problems. Seconds that don't exist will make something go haywire, I'm sure.

Everybody get out and push?

https://abc11.com/a-faster-spinning-earth-may-cause-timekeepers-to-subtract-second-from-world-clocks/14592379/

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

My iGaging 1-2" micrometer works great, except that it resets and loses its zero every time I actually measure something with it. Which, being interpreted, means I am running kind of blind in that range.

I guess I should take it apart and try to fix it before buying a new micrometer. sigh.

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

I am trying to create a cutaway view of an assembly in #FreeCAD.

It doesn't work at all. It sections some of the parts but not others in the assembly, so I can't use it to make a cutaway view.

Probably I'm doing something wrong. So I searched for "assembly persistent section cut freecad" and saw a forum result that looked like exactly what I wanted to know. "Persistent section cut inconsistent behavior in assembly" felt exactly on target.

Guess who posted that question to the FreeCAD forums in 2022?

mcdanlj, 1 month ago to random

This morning on my commute to work, I drove over a screw. I couldn't find a tire shop near me with an opening before next week, so I learned a new skill of inserting a temporary tire plug.

It wasn't that complicated, but the instructions didn't mention re-inflating the tire after you start pushing the plug in. I spent about 15 minutes trying to push it into a completely flat tire before I put about 9 lbs of air in with only the tip of the plug in the hole, blocking most of the airflow, after which it took a few seconds to push the plug in the right amount, before fully re-inflating the tire.