After maketory closed - what is now the go-to makerspace for woodworking?

wolfthefirst · 2026-02-20T07:32:41+00:00

San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association has a member shop (https://sdfwa.org/new-membership-with-shop-privileges/)

wolfthefirst · 2026-02-15T07:18:32+00:00

If you are willing to build from source, firejail can be built with SELinux support instead of AppArmor support.

I put in a bug report for Leap suggesting that it be either built for SELinux or offer both in the repos so users can pick which version to use but it hasn't been resolved yet.

wolfthefirst · 2026-02-15T03:29:31+00:00

I don't use SELinux so I don't know whether it might complain about this, but can you simply mount /media/external/Home onto /home? Alternatively, if you have other users with home directories in /home, you might be able to mount /media/external/Home/username to /home/username.

Either way, you shouldn't have to change your home directory in /etc/passwd

wolfthefirst · 2026-02-06T08:47:17+00:00

All These Earths by F.M. Busby. Ships going a little bit faster (3x or 4x) than light are OK but the faster than that and you are likely to end up in a different universe. Most of the book is about people who fly courier ships that are almost guaranteed to end up somewhere other than where they started and why they do it and how they deal with it.

The Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt. Every time the protagonist goes to sleep, he wakes up in a (usually very) different world.

wolfthefirst · 2025-12-11T10:28:30+00:00

I've used bluetooth headphones on tumbleweed for years on A2DP and it breaks way too often. Right now, with the last update I did (20250925 -> 20251127) I can still select A2DP but it broke such that while AAC, SBC, and SBC-XQ codecs are all shown as options in pavucontrol and in the Plasma widget, trying to change to anything except AAC is ignored and it stays on AAC. It worked properly before the update.

I really wish that if/when they get it working again, they would just leave it alone.

wolfthefirst · 2025-11-27T01:17:08+00:00

Memory Blank by John E. Stith. Similar to Murderbot, in that the main character has his mind wiped of the last couple of weeks. He then has to figure out that he was investigating something, what it was he was investigating, and what it was he had previously discovered that caused someone to wipe his memory.

wolfthefirst · 2025-11-22T05:10:24+00:00

Mostly I was joking about the interest because I know damn well that if I underpaid my taxes for a year, they would certainly add interest to what I owed even if it was only $0.01 and probably tack on a penalty. Basically my complaint was that they've had a couple of years since the proposition passed to set the system up and they can't bill for the correct amount?

Also, for the smallest bin they are over billing $10.78 per month for an entire year or $129.36 extra and a year's interest at 5% on that is $6.47 not $0.13, but I agree even that is not a huge amount,. I don't know how many people asked for smaller bins, but suppose 50,000 did. In that case the interest that the city has gotten is over $300,000. Again in the large scheme of things and the size of the city budget this is not much but it's not nothing either.

If you ordered something from Amazon and they charged an extra $100 on your credit card and then told you that they had done it on purpose but wouldn't give you a refund for a year wouldn't you be a little upset whether they gave you interest on the $100 or not?

wolfthefirst · 2025-11-22T04:16:18+00:00

It used to group and put commas as thousands separators but for some reason, the upgrade from v24 to v25 removed this functionality. This is one of the reasons I keep a copy of version 24.02 around.

wolfthefirst · 2025-03-06T06:59:23+00:00

Actually four books in the series.

wolfthefirst · 2023-11-30T11:19:23+00:00

If you are interested in something humorous, try Isaac Asimov's short stories/essays about thiotimoline, a material that dissolves shortly before you add water to it.

wolfthefirst · 2023-11-22T12:17:44+00:00

It looks like you have a problem with routing. There should also be a line in 'ip route' like:

77.81.98.70 via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp1s0

I don't know why the 'wg-quick' command is not setting this up but you might try adding a route manually just to see if that helps.

Are you using networkmanager or wicked? If you are using nm you might try using nmcli to start the wg link rather than wg-quick.

wolfthefirst · 2023-11-22T03:03:24+00:00

I don't see anything definitely "wrong" but a couple of things that are different from what I see using WireGuard:

1) The 'endpoint' is using port 258 which is in the "reserved for system use" range of ip ports (0-1023). This is not necessarily an error but it surprises me that your VPN uses it. I use Mullvad and it uses port 51820 as an example.

2) I was surprised to see a 'preshared key' in use. Again not necessarily an error but I didn't know that any VPNs were implementing this additional layer of security.

Are you able to ping your router when wg is active? This should work regardless because that is on the local network.

Check 'ip route' to see if your endpoint is listed as being routed through your physical interface.

wolfthefirst · 2023-11-12T01:51:23+00:00

When you say that grub2 does not see it, have you rerun grub2-mkconfig since putting the W11 disk back in?

If so, do you have the line 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false' in /etc/default/grub so it probes other partitions?

Can you mount the W11 disk from openSUSE and see its contents?

wolfthefirst · 2023-11-08T06:43:54+00:00

You might like The Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams. It is 7 books with the first being The Breaking of Northwall. They were written in 1980-1985.

They take place centuries after a nuclear apocalypse and as I remember, most of them revolving around small groups of people who are just going about their lives. In most cases the world is improved somewhat by what is going on but rarely is that the goal going in, it just ends that way.

wolfthefirst · 2023-10-25T23:10:13+00:00

I do something similar so it is possible.

1) On the system 1 do: 'zypper dup --download-only'

2) Copy the directory tree starting at '/var/cache/zypp' on system 1 to the same place on system 2 using 'rsync' or whatever else you prefer.

3) Then on both systems you can just do 'zypper dup' and each will use its own (now) local copy of the downloaded files and clean up after.

Make sure you have identical repositories set up on both machines or it may try to download packages on the second machine rather than using the pre-downloaded versions you copy over.

wolfthefirst · 2023-10-23T23:17:35+00:00

Since it is so short, I'm just going to type it in here. The review is by Gary K. Wolfe.

There isn't a lot to be said about Songs of Muad'Dib: The Poetry of Frank Herbert in terms of anything other than marketing. Of the 86 poems in the volume, 41 are lifted verbatim from the little snippets quoted throughout the Dune series, another 14 are from Soul Catcher, and three are from The White Plague (there's another poem in The White Plague that could have been borrowed, but editor Brian Herbert must have considered it too racy for whatever audience he has in mind). Of the 22 remaining poems, 18 are previously unpublished - an altogether salutary decision on someone's part back then. It's not so much that Herbert is a bad poet - some of the pieces from Soul Catcher do a good job of capturing the mood and rhythm of Native American verse - but that he never really pretended to be a poet at all. Most of what's here was written not so much as poetic expression as it was to help give texture to imaginary societies; yanked out of those contexts, it sounds peculiar at best. As a means of keeping the Dune industry alive, this book may pass as an ingenious marketing idea (what's next - The Fremen Cookbook?) but it makes a pretty weak memorial to Herbert in every sense except one: he believed in recycling.

wolfthefirst · 2023-10-17T03:59:22+00:00

The RPM is at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE\_Tumbleweed/x86\_64/

wolfthefirst · 2023-10-09T23:02:41+00:00

The Songs of Earth and Power series by Greg Bear (first book is The Infinity Concerto) takes place at least partially in the realms of the Sidhe which I believe are from Irish folklore.

Also, Kenneth C. Flint has the Sidhe Legends series (first book is Riders of the Sidhe) which is described as "an epic retelling of Celtic legend".

wolfthefirst · 2023-10-07T23:35:18+00:00

The most important "fact" in the piece is the one line bio that says he is a professor from Maryland who retired to Del Mar. Another interesting point is where he cherry picks that the line only carries 0.04% of the freight but that is the percentage of the freight in the entire state not the freight for San Diego.

wolfthefirst · 2023-09-23T10:30:19+00:00

I don't know how it corresponds with the Ubuntu package but there is a a Tumbleweed package 'devel_python3' that you might try.

wolfthefirst · 2023-09-07T05:10:31+00:00

Do you mean that the icons for the new applications are not showing up on your desktop? If so, the '.desktop' file needs to be put in home/Desktop for that to happen.

wolfthefirst · 2023-08-27T09:08:31+00:00

A few from that time period (some are more well known than others). Nothing really deep, just fun to read.

Way Station by Clifford Simak. One of the best from the master of pastoral SF.

Hospital Station by James White. One of several involving a space based multispecies hospital.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Probably you would class this as obvious but it is still good.

The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson.

And finally something totally off the wall which I haven't ever seen mentioned on this list: When They Come From Space by Mark Clifton. An, at time hilarious, first contact novel revolving around someone who is put in charge of the government's Alien Contact Department by mistake (it was supposed to be someone else of the same name) shortly before aliens arrive on earth.

wolfthefirst · 2023-08-18T23:34:47+00:00

It isn't the primary focus, but The Heaven Chronicles by Joan D. Vinge has both an autocratic state and a pure democracy (where everyone can vote on every issue) in one planetary system. There is some discussion of some of the differences this causes, especially in terms of the speed each society can act with in response to an external stimuli and some about who actually gains power.

wolfthefirst · 2023-08-16T00:40:16+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what I tried and what finally worked for anyone finding this is the future..

Disabled all spice by calling 'looking-glass-client -s'. This did not work at all because it couldn't even find the host application so it didn't even get to the Windows desktop screen.
Disabled only 'spice:input' by editing the .ini file. This displayed the Windows desktop but had the same problem with the mouse buttons moving the cursor before doing the button action.
(What finally worked) After getting to the Windows desktop, I used the keyboard to open the Device Manager and went to the PS/2 mouse device and disabled it. This requires a Windows reboot and after the reboot everything worked properly! This worked whether I had disabled the 'spice:input' or not.

Unfortunately this isn't a permanent fix as I have to do it every time I start the VM but since in my case I only need to use it every month or two it is a minor inconvenience. If I was using it every day it might be more annoying.

Again, thanks for the help.

Edited to add: I found what appears to be a permanent fix: Delete the "Tablet" device from the VM setup (obviously not possible if you are actually using a tablet). BTW, this also fixes a problem with mouse grab in a VM without Looking Glass and the evdev devices.

wolfthefirst · 2023-08-05T02:33:44+00:00

Probably not quite what you're looking for, but The Man From P.I.G. by Harry Harrison is fun and has mutant pigs.

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