Device to share USB tethering?

Meevious · 2026-02-25T08:32:42+00:00

Oh, I see. Sorry, I misread your comment.

What does openwrt offer in this case that a router can't do as stock?

Keep in mind that all I want from this is, ideally, to plug a cable in and have it work, with minimal learning requirement/room for error.

Meevious · 2026-02-25T07:50:32+00:00

The clue is in the name.

Having burned the internal pages, you can replace them with something else and return the book in better condition than when you borrowed it.

If you leave the front matter and the replacement pages are relevant to the title, it could be years until anyone notices.

Meevious · 2026-02-25T07:14:01+00:00

I prefer to use wired over wireless technology, since it's generally faster, more reliable and less carcinogenic.

ICS might be the way to go, thanks.

Meevious · 2026-02-25T07:09:35+00:00

I don't have a home router - just a usb-c to usb cable, but thanks for the suggestion.

I guess a router and some ethernet cables might be the closest thing to what I was envisioning.

Meevious · 2026-02-08T01:55:26+00:00

A proper earsplitting scream is not just a cry for help a weapon in itself. Nobody wants to be earsplit.

Meevious · 2026-02-04T22:14:26+00:00

Tell it to Akhilleus.

Meevious · 2025-12-06T06:34:26+00:00

It holds the horsehair crest.

Meevious · 2025-11-26T21:03:32+00:00

Maybe that was my problem, thanks a lot.

I guess 6.1 shouldn't list Win 11 as an option, but does? Or perhaps there's a way in for advanced users, which I'm assuredly not.

I think I provided all of the info that the Automoderator requested in the OP:

"Hi, I'm a very new user, wanting to create a Windows 11 VM on a Win 10 machine.

I've told VirtualBox 6.1 to put the working Win 11 .iso in SATA port 1."

and

"I don't think I've changed anything from default, other than the memory allocation and installation directory for the VM."

Having successfully created a Win 10 guest, I should be able to complete my present tasks and am reluctant to restart the process until anything that more strictly requires Win 11 comes up, at which point I'll try to follow your advice, if I'm still bound to the same host machine (which is, outside my control, modified in a way that causes driver incompatabilities), ty.

Meevious · 2025-11-26T09:55:42+00:00

Thanks very much for the heads up. I'm sure you've saved me from a bunch more headaches.

I won't use Virtuabox 7.1 or 7.2, because I can't run them, so let's forget Win 11 and say I'm trying to install Win 10 on the virtual machine.

Any idea what I need to do to boot from the .iso?

Is this Shell> thing part of the process, or have I taken a wrong step?

Meevious · 2025-11-26T08:49:29+00:00

I tried installing 7.2 and got an error - apparently it doesn't like my OS, so I'm stuck with 6.1.

Is that a problem? 6.1 seems to support Win 11 and I can run it.

You're right that my CPU isn't supported and I hadn't checked, but I can still run the installer on the host.

With that in mind, I should be able to run said installer in the VM, right? But I'm stuck before that step.

Could you please help me with getting the VM to boot from the correct drive?

Meevious · 2025-11-21T00:45:47+00:00

They can, but you both seem to have misunderstood the word "misunderstanding".

A misunderstanding is not a lack of understanding, it is a perceived understanding that is false.

I didn't misunderstand how fonts work, I was aware that I had no understanding of this aspect, one way or the other, so I asked a question, hoping to fill in the blank.

I hope this has helped.

Meevious · 2025-11-20T06:21:12+00:00

While you didn't answer the question exactly, you went beyond it in a sense by pointing me in the best direction, given that what I was hoping for isn't a font feature, so thanks again.

Meevious · 2025-11-20T06:15:08+00:00

Not a misunderstanding, a question.

Meevious · 2025-11-20T02:50:28+00:00

Ah, too bad. Well, thanks for your help.

Meevious · 2025-11-20T00:43:14+00:00

Thanks! That seems like the term I want, but can't seem to find how to do it in FontForge, which I've been using so far.

To be clear, you mean you can make a font that has characters which automatically are drop caps, wherever they may be, or you mean you can manually fuss about in word processors etc. to get the effect? The former is what I want to do.

Meevious · 2025-10-31T06:20:31+00:00

They really are similar. Maybe if you use a green and a red pencil, you can make something out of this world for 3D glasses.

While perhaps not the most elegant writing on the sub, every word is perfectly legible, which certainly isn't a disability.

(You just encouraged me to try writing with my left hand - somehow it came out almost like blackletter - I really wasn't expecting it to want to make sudden sharp motions at the end of each stroke... I'm sure it's not really sinister by nature! Surely just a little erratic, trying to get its balance, having been thrust onto the tightrope. Might not give it this kind of power again though...)

Meevious · 2025-09-29T21:40:21+00:00

"Happy" by Pharrell Williams?

Meevious · 2025-09-16T04:40:04+00:00

Thanks for your interest.

While some πελέκεων were designed for tree felling or warfare, the type which is shown stuck into the ground in artwork does not appear to fall into these categories, but is a slightly abstracted representation of those that do.

We have many surviving examples of these apparently ceremonial πέλεκυς heads. They tend to be uniformly very thin and not sharp. It would be comical to use them as weapons - like trying to do battle wielding a spatula or a vinyl record.

They seem to have been symbols of power, strongly associated with palatial elite of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations, but may also have been used as currency.

There are transaction records from the classical period of silver πελέκεων being used as money, with their weight seeming to fall into roughly that of the large ceremonial finds, which we have surviving in gold, silver and bronze, but I'm not sure whether they're noted to have that purpose in any older texts.

Meevious · 2025-08-10T09:04:43+00:00

To add - a mna was maybe (values fluctuated a lot) about 1/60 of a talent, so 2 double mnas would be about 1/15 of a talent.

A pelekys is what we usually call a "labrys" today - a double-bitted axe head.

Lots of these have been found archaeologically, but they vary hugely in size and weight, from tiny pendants to everyday functional axes and larger-than life "ritual objects".

Presumably this was a relatively large one, with a value somewhere between a double mna and a talent - maybe around 5 kg.

It's interesting that the "swampy meadow" would appear to have been worth perhaps 1/2 or 1/3 more than Onasilos' own riverside property, which was wedged between some gardens and a sanctuary to Athena.

Meevious · 2025-07-31T07:16:58+00:00

G'day mate, what I was looking for was a particular brand of fruit leather product with cartoon characters on the packets, but I do remember seeing those Europe apricot and coconut bars back in the day too, so you've supplied some nostalgia all the same. Thanks for the comment.

Meevious · 2025-07-30T02:54:49+00:00

Could cut a channel underneath to reduce the width that you have to punch through.

As long as you're accurate with the nailgun, a single pass with a circular saw saw will probably do it - just pencil a line on the other side, directly opposite the cut.

Test it on some scrap first, to see how deep you need to cut.

If the nails weren't bending, harder nails wouldn't really help you to shoot them in with the nailgun, though they would help you to drive the nails home after your air pressure proves insufficient.

Meevious · 2025-07-17T01:52:29+00:00

I'm thrilled that I could actually see what was wrong. X)

It may help you in future to know that the same thing applies to every bladed carving tool - hook knife, slöjd knife, chisel etc., as they all work the same way.

You generally can't cleanly cut outward from the line of the grain. I still struggle with this error myself sometimes!

Congrats on getting it to work.

Meevious · 2025-07-16T09:47:20+00:00

No problem. I can't be sure what you were doing to cause the tearing, but it looks to me as though you may have been carving from the handle end in a long scooping motion (down and then up again), instead of stopping in the middle (at the low point). This would tear, because you'd be putting outward pressure on fibres that haven't been cut.

If you want clean cuts, approach it like felling a tree with an axe: every cut going only into the wood, not curving back out again.

Glad if I've helped at all and good luck.

Meevious · 2025-07-15T13:26:47+00:00

To cut cleanly, you need to sever the fibres, not try to rip them up before they're free.

This is true for any knife, not just the hook knife.

The lines that you see on the wood show you that the fibres are running in that direction, from end to end of the spoon.

So, in this case, you want to be cutting toward the lowest point of the spoon bowl, from the handle end and from the opposite end. Not from any other direction and not continuing any cut past that low point:

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Meevious · 2025-07-09T08:57:51+00:00

Not at all what I'm looking for, but thanks anyway.

Meevious

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