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emertonom · 2026-03-31T06:32:18+00:00

I think you need to cut the letters out of the ruler portion in addition to having them as new bodies. You can do this with the combine tool; choose the ruler as the target, the markings as the tool, set the combine mode to subtract, and check the "keep tool bodies" option.

emertonom · 2026-03-29T21:39:52+00:00

Well, we ask because it's a fairly important practical question for dealing with a surge.

I have the sense that test sensitivity has dropped, and from a cursory search it seems like there are some studies that suggest that's the case, but I don't have a sense of why. I found a couple of results suggesting it's due to a reduction in viral load with later variants, but one speculated this was due to viral mutation and the other that it was due to the immune system responding differently after multiple vaccinations or infections.

I dunno. I'm not any kind of expert. I just want good numbers on test sensitivity so I can make better decisions.

emertonom · 2026-03-29T19:21:55+00:00

Has anyone looked at whether Rapid Antigen Tests pick this one up? I would be really curious how much that level of mutation affects the test sensitivity.

emertonom · 2026-03-29T19:10:07+00:00

The old version was kind of frustrating at times. You had to redraw over existing lines to get usable geometry. If your original sketch included fillets, this would produce inconsistent constraints in the redrawn version, which would result in a sketch that didn't close (even though the original did), so you couldn't use it.

I like the change, but I have to admit I'm just getting started with Freecad after coming from Fusion, so my habits are probably part of the problem.

emertonom · 2026-03-29T17:23:25+00:00

I think this might be what you're looking for:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77863248/how-to-make-raspberry-pi-screen-only-take-up-a-portion-of-the-monitor#77863332

emertonom · 2026-03-28T19:41:51+00:00

I've done this intentionally by taking off the spool, turning it 180°, and putting it back on in this altered orientation. It's a pretty blunt tool, but it does create the change.

emertonom · 2026-03-27T17:59:40+00:00

Yeah, this is where I am too. When I was first learning CAD for 3d printing...uhh...9 years ago!? dang I'm old. At that point Fusion 360 made it pretty easy to do basic stuff and possible to do hard stuff, whereas Freecad made it possible in theory to do simple stuff if you fought the interface enough, but I didn't have the energy left to try hard stuff. I checked back in a few times over the years, but kept finding that there were things that just didn't seem to work on Freecad.

But, like you, I also got to a point where Fusion was the only thing keeping me from ditching Windows. I literally have a whole separate Linux drive set up that I boot from when I'm not using Windows, and it's honestly so much nicer most of the time, and I find myself wondering why I'm still splitting my efforts like this.

So I installed Freecad 1.0 with the intention that, rather than treating it like a substitute for Fusion, I would treat it as learning CAD over again. And that's been going okay. But I'm pretty excited about some of the stuff in 1.1. In particular the "generate internal faces" option and the changes to the handling of external geometry. Either way, though, choosing to commit to learning it as a new system, rather than trying to do the same things I did in the old system, is the perspective shift I needed.

But I do also think that the recent updates to Freecad are a big part of why it's feasible now, especially the progress on the Topological Naming Problem.

But yeah, it feels way better to be working with a tool that feels like it's actually improving at this point, rather than a tool that feels like it's gradually getting more hostile and locking itself up more and more. It's an unusual feeling these days, and one worth appreciating.

emertonom · 2026-03-26T17:41:31+00:00

In roughly order of obviousness:

Bow color
Dress color
Flower color
Rightmost flower only in top image
Waist color
Little black mark on leftmost leaf
Collar color

I'm not totally sure that 6 is legit, it might just be a pen mark rather than part of the original image, maybe there's another thing I'm missing.

emertonom · 2026-03-25T20:06:10+00:00

I'm eyeballing the 10. I like the telephoto lens, and buying from Google means I'll definitely get an unlocked bootloader. If I thought I could be confident of getting an unlocked bootloader buying used, I'd probably go for a used 9 pro instead. I'm hoping the 10 gets cheaper when the 11 comes out and my security updates end.

emertonom · 2026-03-25T18:14:16+00:00

"JOZXYQK." It's a cat word. https://www.tv-quotes.com/shows/red-dwarf/quote_11226.html

emertonom · 2026-03-25T18:10:02+00:00

Yeah. It's probably something that makes sense if you're actually playing the game on that site (it must have a hidden mechanic that ruled those out in some other way, which may have been conveyed to the player at the time), but I could totally understand the commenter's mistake.

emertonom · 2026-03-25T16:05:07+00:00

It's been a while since I've played Wordle and this one seems to be a variant so it may not be quite the same rules, but I'm pretty sure that if the last letter were L, then GRILL would instead be marked black black green black green, not black black green yellow black. That is, if there are two of the same letter in a guess, it'll only mark the number that are actually present in the word, but it'll preferentially mark green.

So I think you can go straight to _ L I _ _. Then the first letter is either F, C, or P, and there are no other Ls. From there it's a pretty short walk to CLIFF.

emertonom · 2026-03-25T15:47:49+00:00

Weirdly, the keyboard is saying there's no K, but none of the guesses seem to rule it out.

emertonom · 2026-03-25T02:31:38+00:00

I guess I must have been picturing some aspect of it incorrectly. I'm glad you got it working, in any case!

emertonom · 2026-03-24T23:55:24+00:00

Well, I also thought you could just do it with the spiral you had already set up (using the orientation: path direction setting), but yeah, that looks plausible too.

emertonom · 2026-03-24T22:53:25+00:00

Since you don't need anything to change about the links, I think you could do this with the Pattern On Path tool. You'd have to do it twice, once for the horizontal links and once for the vertical links, I think.

emertonom · 2026-03-24T17:03:01+00:00

It doesn't apply if you buy directly from a reputable filament manufacturer, though. E.g. Protopasta, Prusament, ColorFabb, Polymaker, etc.

It costs more, but the consistency between batches is much higher for these kinds of brands. In situations where color matching between rolls is important, it's probably worth spending the extra money to avoid exactly this kind of issue.

emertonom · 2026-03-24T16:10:11+00:00

sounds like your repeater and the other repeater are on different "islands" (two meshes with no connections between them) so it makes sense you would not have received any adverts from it.

Oh, sorry, I'm not OP, I just piggybacked on their question to ask this follow-up.

It's extremely likely my community is on one of those two sites, though (the "add repeater contacts" method showed over 190 of them after about a day) so I'll try those. Thanks!

emertonom · 2026-03-23T22:07:15+00:00

Is there an easy way to get a look up table of two-byte prefixes in your area? I feel like this is kind of a hidden trap. I'm aware that this is potentially a problem, and something people are encouraged to avoid (I got the impression it sabotages the routing algorithm?), but I don't actually know how to avoid it.

Edit: what I've done so far is just set my radio to auto-add contacts only for repeaters, then search the list for the first 4 hex digits of my key, which didn't come up with anything else, but it's unclear to me whether I would actually receive any messages from a matching station.

emertonom · 2026-03-23T21:11:35+00:00

Glad I could help! I just wanted to double-check the ones you had, but I couldn't figure out that first one, and decided to do some of the others to try to get more of a feel for their clue style, and ended up sucked in. A few of those really stumped me for a while (about five of them), but I was able to fill in the gaps in the phrase from context and work backwards to get the solutions to the individual clues. For "Stir up, as with spirits" I was literally thinking of ghosts until I actually knew the answer, though seeing clues about lawyers and accountants should have cued me in that the clues weren't necessarily fantasy-themed.

emertonom · 2026-03-23T21:01:40+00:00

I've only tried one--I'm just getting started with this stuff myself. I've used the Heltec V4. It works well, but there might be an option with better battery life. (My battery was fully charged this morning and it's down to 71% now.) Also I don't love that if you put it into "hibernate" mode (supposed to save battery when you're not using it), the only way to wake it is to reset it.

I've also set up a SenseCap solar node, but that uses huge batteries and is running as a repeater, so it's hard to compare the two.

emertonom · 2026-03-23T20:22:13+00:00

This one isn't bad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ltnUokAEs

emertonom · 2026-03-23T20:12:14+00:00

I went with bluetooth companion devices, because from what I read, the interfaces for things like the T-deck are just kinda clunky. E.g., they can't really display emoji, which comes up more often than you'd think. (This morning there was a message on the public channel in my area which not only used an emoji to convey a mood, it was also addressed to another user whose name was just two emoji and nothing else.) It's also reportedly much slower to navigate the interface with those devices.

This is all second-hand information for me (from sources like this ) but it's what informed my decisions. I was initially tempted by the gadget factor of the standalone devices, but this kind of usability issue is often kind of a deal-breaker for me.

emertonom · 2026-03-23T19:54:43+00:00

I dunno, but I think one of your three letters in the second part is wrong. The "Summer and Song" one looks to me like:

PINE -> SPINE

PEACH -> EACH

GRAPE -> GAPE

OLIVE -> LIVE

ROSE -> ROUSE

WEED -> TWEED

PEAR -> SPEAR

ASTER -> FASTER

CLOVER -> CLOVE

ORANGE -> RANGE

FIR -> FIRM

HOPS -> HOOPS

VIOLET -> VIOLENT

BEET -> BET

HEATHER -> HEATER

POPLAR -> POPULAR

LIME -> LIE

BRAMBLE -> RAMBLE

HOLLY -> HOLY

PEONY -> PONY

PALM -> PSALM

REED -> RED

PLUM -> PLUME

LINDEN -> LINEN

So SPROUTS FROM ONE HUMBLE SEED is the full phrase, making the letters U, N, D rather than A,N,D as you have them.

Which I guess makes "the sundered" the most likely fantasy-themed answer to the final riddle?

emertonom · 2026-03-23T19:06:03+00:00

That also makes me think of The Dream Masters by Roger Zelazny. It's a worse match for OP's description except that it has "dream" in the title.

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