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Indoor lettuce growing in 3D printed pots
I love it when my hobbies collide.
Indoor lettuce in 3D printed pots
Store bought lettuce for salads and sandwiches?
Couldn't be me.
NVIDIA drivers borked after zypper dup
Hello! I am running Tumbleweed on a desktop with an RTX 4070 and I am have tried to run sudo zypper dup 3 times now over the last 2 months and each time it has messed up my nvidia graphics drivers somehow causing me to revert to the snapshot taken just before the zypper dup. I thought at the time that there was just some issue that would be resolved which is why I kept reverting but at this point I just need to bite the bullet and figure out how to fix it.
I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the drivers several times using the command.
sudo zypper remove \*nvidia\* && sudo zypper install x11-video-nvidiaG06
The only notable thing that this seems to do is fix my resolution from like 480p to 1080p, but only for the next reboot. However even with the resolution change it seems that the nvidia gpu is not being used at all.
sudo prime-select get-current tells me that there is "no driver configured"
The command xrandr --listproviders prints
Providers: number : 1 Provider 0: id: 0x40; cap: 0x2 (Sink Output); crtcs: 1; outputs: 1; associated providers: 0; name: modesetting output None-1
Also task manager (or whatever) can't detect the gpu I guess?
::: spoiler screenshot :::
I'm still pretty new to linux so any and all guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Need help setting up new SSD as boot drive.
Howdy All! I recently got a bitchin' new SSD, a Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB and I am struggle bussing trying to make it my new boot drive on my computer while keeping all of my programs and settings and things just the way I like them. Specs are I7 13700K cpu and an RTX 4070 gpu plugged into an MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Wifi mobo all working harmoniously to run Opensuse Tumbleweed.
Things I have done so far:
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Googled that shit, didn't find much that helped me unfortunately. Found some forum where a guy was trying to move over to an SSD from a HDD and then remove the HDD, whereas I just want to change the boot drive to SSD and continue using both drives in the same rig. Someone else in that thread recommended clonezilla but then further down I read something about UUIDs(?) being copied as well and being unable to use both drives in the same computer or it can cause issues and corrupt data. That scared me off that.
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Tried using the Yast Partitioner tool but the scary warning box it makes you click through and the general lack of any clue what I'm doing scared me off that.
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Decided to just fresh install Opensuse Tumbleweed onto SSD with usb and then mount the HDD so that I can just copy everything over that way. Or so I thought. First I ran into the issue of the /home located in HDD not being viewable by my user on the SSD, I guess. Fixed that by unmounting the drive and remounting it with the following appended to the end of the mount command '-o subvol=/' , I got that from google as well. Now I'm able to view things in /home on HDD from the user on SSD and I've even copied some things over. However I'm unable to access the .snapshots folder in the root directory of HDD which I intended to copy over the latest snapshot and use it on the SSD install to bring all of my non /home stuff over.
So I'm kinda stuck in the middle of transferring over now. I have an inclination toward being lazy so I don't really want to spend time installing all of the flatpaks and configuring the OS again if I don't have to. Mostly because I've already had one false start with Linux and went ahead and started fresh so this would be the third time having to set everything up again from scratch. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Help with systemd (I think)
SOLVED If any lost souls find themselves here in a similar situation let it be known that the file that worked for me was creating a file at '%h/.config/systemd/user/google-drive-ocamlfuse.service' with the following content:
[Unit]
Description=FUSE filesystem over Google Drive
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=google-drive-ocamlfuse %h/googledrive
ExecStop=fusemount -u %h/googledrive
Restart=always
RestartSec=300
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Howdy, I have very recently installed Opensuse Tumbleweed alongside Windows 10 (On a seperate drive) and am trying to get things setup to where I can fully transition to linux. One of the first things I have hit a wall on is getting a file to execute on boot using systemd.
I am trying to use this package to be able to access my google drive from Dolphin. And so far it works okay. Except that it doesn't survive a reboot. I have to run the command:
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive
after each reboot in order for the google drive directories to be accessible. So I googled how to make that happen automagically on boot and found this guide that helped me get a startup script going.
I created /usr/local/bin/ocamlfuseStartup.sh as a file that contains the command from before:
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive
and verified that it works as intended when I enter ./ocamlfuseStartup.sh from that directory.
I then created another file at /usr/lib/systemd/system/startup.service that contains the following:
[Unit]
Description=Startup Script
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/ocamlfuseStartup.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I have no idea what the /bin/bash portion is for because I found it from a googling but without it I get the following error:
startup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
However with it I get this error:
startup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
which I take to mean that there is something wrong with my ocamlfuseStartup.sh file maybe? But since it works when I manually execute the file I'm kind of at a loss.
I found this thread where it seemed like someone else was having a similar issue but I didn't really grok what they were talking about.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
Oops! I accidentally made art again...
Left is Wenge with some yellow species of wood from Asia(I think?) idk I found it in the splinebrary (Which is just a bucket in my shop right now, but one day it will be something beautiful too).
Right is walnut and purple heart with a strip of either Padauk or bloodwood for shits and gigs.
Left is my favorite. I got more and more excited to turn it as I glued up the blank like 3 or 4 times.
It finally happened to me...
I'm a dumbass and sawed into my workbench.
ETA: Threw a maple spline into it to commemorate the occasion.
If you're on the fence about building or buying a 3d printer enclosure, please let me give you a push.
I should have built this thing from the word go. I ran this printer for almost a year on my desk right next to my computer. But it was loud and smelly and the high traffic area played havoc on print quality and caused a lot of warping.
Now that it's tucked away in a back room suspended in a corner by French cleats and sitting directly on top of dense foam and a big ass paver it is merely "audible" but certainly ignorable. There's also no more headaches from the smell, and my print quality has never been better.
Do yourself and your printer a favor and get an enclosure sorted out asap.
"Duality of Walnut"
Spec piece made from walnut sapwood and heartwood (allegedly) from the same tree.
Another photo showing off the grain.
Felt like an artist when I finished this one
Walnut and oak with Osage Orange and Padauk accents
My device info bar at the top of my phone is no longer visible when in app after the latest update.
I've encountered a small issue with Jerboa that I wanted to see if other people were experiencing. And or if there was a fix for this issue.
Screenshot of issue:
Screenshot of the stuff at the top I'm talking about because I don't know the proper term:
I'm running Abomination Vaults with a bunch of weirdos (my friends)
Potential Abomination Vault Spoilers Below
My group primarily plays homebrewed DnD 5e campaigns but we have enjoyed playing the beginner box so much that we have decided to play another Paizo adventure using Foundry VTT. So we have chosen Abomination Vaults which I will be GMing. I figured I would make posts about our shenanigans in the Vaults both as a way to provide some content to this community and to encourage me to take detailed (read: useful) notes to document our misadventures. Our group has 3 primary GMs that trade off each week, GMing our respective campaigns and sometimes special 2 or 3 shots ( We are running a 5e converted Tomb of Horrors module in a couple weeks for our most Masochistic DMs birthday, which should be... Fun?). Which is to say that updates on our shenanigans will be few and far between.
All that said Id like to introduce y'all to the cats I'll be wrangling. Hopefully their characters can serve as inspiration and/or be good for a laugh.
Meet the Chucklefucks
::: spoiler The Enigmatic Dave, Human Psychic Dave is a down on his luck middle aged man. Who wears a greasy Cheeto stained robe. He has always peddled as a psychic giving sham tarot readings for little money. He has never really felt a purpose in life and as such has retreated into himself and fell into the bottle. Recently his wife, Susan, and “their” 2 kids left. She found another man who is 1000x’s better than Dave. I mean. He’s very rich and lives in Absalom if you’re into that kind of thing. He’s into real estate and has a ton of time to take Daves family on vacation. One time they took a vacation to Otari. Dave spotted them traipsing through the street in their fancy clothes. Susan still wanted him though. Dave could tell. Through her leaving Dave’s psyche was irreparably fractured however. He found latent abilities within himself. He rebranded, The Enigmatic Dave, and started giving true readings in Otari's local market. He’s made a bit of a name for himself locally. Dave hasn’t fixed any of his habits though. He instead hired a “manager” to keep him in line so he is sober and coherent enough to perform at his shows and readings. One day he will be known the world around. One day Susan will take him back. :::
::: spoiler Stove, Lizardfolk Beastkin (Were-goat) Kineticist Stove grew up as a feral were-goat child in the Otari Hinterlands with nothing but a small scrap of flesh (birth certificate?) with the name “Steve” poorly tattooed on it, so poorly in fact that when Stove had someone literate read it to him for the first time they misread it as Stove. Stove has been curious about proper living for a while now though and has lurked on the outskirts of the town creeping and learning. One day he found Dave and started going to his shows. Finally started talking to him and learned that Susan had left Dave and now he was going to have to live with his mom again. Stove excitedly jumped at the opportunity and said he'd live with Dave and be his manager! Dave, desperate to not live with his bitchy mother again, begrudgingly accepted. Now Stove has a room at the very back of Dave's place that's very poorly lit, smells terrible, and has bones of small animals littered about the place. More like a barn at this point than a guest room. It goes fairly well with the rest of the house which has takeout boxes and empty liquor boxes littered everywhere. Dave never visits Stove in his room... he always just waits for him to come out if he needs something.
GM note: Without any prompting from me, The Enigmatic Dave (T.E.D. as we now call him in the discord) took the Market Runner background and decided to tie his backstory in with Stove who is a weird looking lizard goat dude who manipulates elements. Keeleno Lathenar is going to be incredibly distrustful of Stove since he is a druid adjacent animal person. So naturally I decided that Keeleno will be T.E.D.’s landlord of a small flat adjacent to the Otari Market and I'm going to let them decide if they try to hide the fact that Stove lives there or not. Shenanigans will surely ensure. :::
::: spoiler Kolbold, Goblin Warpriest/Cultist of Zarongel Kolbold is a cultist dedicated to Zarongel the hero god of dog killing, arson, and travel. Moving around otari mounted atop his goblindog and generally being a menace setting fire to adventure camps and killing stray dogs when he isn't scavenging the city. Kolbold was sent by the tribe Oracle to go join a group and raid a dungeon for shineies.
Edicts are Dog killing, arson, and beast riding.
Anathemas spare the dog, not burning your enemies buildings, not having/seeking a mount or riding a horse or dog.
GM note: I'm going to try and make this PCs tribe the same former tribe of “The Scribbles” from the AV expanded document. How that plays out, however, is anyone's guess. This player is a bit of a wildcard. :::
::: spoiler Kenji Ito, Human Magus/ Time Traveling DnD 2e character Kenji Ito: The Stray Fox After Rengar the Demon Core was once again sealed by the Blitz Brigade and the Pensive Protectors (DnD 2e Campaign he plays in), Kenji sailed back home to Shidekima to reconnect with family. His plan was to take a few dozen years of his new extended life as a vampire to live and protect the ones he cared about most before turning back to his mission. Life had other plans. While out for an afternoon ride with his grandfather a shrill sound started to fill his ears. His horse made no indication it could hear it too, so he glanced over at Ojisan and suddenly he felt a familiar sensation of his body being ripped from the time stream. He went hurtling through the void; silver threads extending far in the distance each one the lifeline of a person he had saved mere months ago. Kenji realized he was falling, his control slipping from his mind as his connection to Faerun was fading. What felt like hours passed before he could see anything: the bright light. First a pin prick, then it grew to surround him until he was out of the void. He looked back and saw the hole quickly closing as he fell further away, toward a strange new place. His instincts kicked in as he reached out to the weave to arrest his fall, but he found something else. New magic, just as ancient as the one's he studied before but new to him connecting the essence of the world. With the ground quickly meeting him a sudden gust of wind changed his course, sending him sideways and landing him in a large haystack. Curious and thankful, he crawled out and realized he was stark naked, and hungry for the first time in years. The farm he was on had a large barn, so he went there first to try and make himself decent. Opening the barn door, he was met with an old figure that was made out of vine and plant material, Alder Twig. After their initial embarrassing encounter Twig and his partner Magnolia (plant Leshies) took him in and helped acclimate Kenji to his new surroundings. He worked for the Twig's, and they paid him in room, food, and a silver here and there. Kenji would travel to the nearby town of Absalom to buy books and study the new Arcane connection he felt, finally learning to wield some of the simpler cantrips. After a few months, he could afford a sword and some decent travelling supplies, so he said his farewell to the Twig's and went forward to follow the only lead to get back home he could think of, this strange new magic and the mystics that control it. :::
::: spoiler Rogath Treesplitter, Orc Barbarian An orc that immigrated to Otari with his mom's and pops when he was young. Turns our that even at a young age, orcs are still pretty useful at felling and moving trees so that's where he has made his money. He likes to explore the surrounding areas and every now and again go to the city to see what kinda weird shit they have out there.
Wrin is a friend of the Treesplitter family. :::
::: spoiler Robin Thorne, Human Nephilim Ranger Robin Thorne, monster hunter. Her dad Murdoc was more involved in her life than Thalomin (Player’s character in another 5e campaign we play in) was in his. Thalomin was a good dad, but he stayed busy with the whole "saving the world every time it's asked" thing. Murdoc later goes on to live a similar life, but had a daughter and wanted to be more present for her. But she would hear stories about Thal and the Untamed, and his helping the Flaming Rose crusade (Avernus reference), and she wanted to be like her grandpa. Old grandpa Thal is a grumpy old man but a teddy bear to his grand daughter. :::
Preparing for the Adventure
Ive decided to add several elements from the AV expanded document, including: Starting the campaign at level 2 with a festival celebrating killing the dragon from the beginner box, The Scribbles, Rajani’s daughter, as well as the ritual to release the original Roseguard heros from the gem lenses. But most of these things will come later. Right now I am trying to decide how best to balance encounters for a party of 6 experienced and creative ttrpgers. Right now ive decided to use the Elite versiom for encounters against mostly one creature and just increasing mobs by about 50%. But I would love any advice in this regard!
Baby Shower gift. Kid won't be able to read for a long time but I think it turned out nice.
Thin pieces of white limba and purple heart laminated to a piece of walnut and then hand routed with a v groove bit. Put a chamfer on all the edges to give it a purple heart border and then I think I finished this one with Polycrylic. Pounded a v tooth wall hanger into the back and called it good.
Issue with print speed slowing to a crawl for no clear reason.
Obligatory "I got a 3d printer for Christmas" and I'm absolutely loving it, fell down the rabbit hole head first. However I'm currently dealing with an issue where my Neptune 4 Pro is slowing down to 7 mm/s when it is printing the outer walls despite being setup in Cura to print at 25mm/s. Filament is Overture PETG. Pictures show the Neptune touchscreen with the 7mm/s speed shown in the bottom left and a screengrab of the speed settings from Cura. Any help is greatly appreciated!
New jig, who dis?
My second time building Michael Alm's Picture Frame Jig. The old one had quite a few issues. Primarily that I used a piece of pine for the runner that started out loose and has progressed to sloppy and almost ruined my last frame with gappy miters. Used maple this time and probably got to snug of a fit to be honest, but I also added a countersunk screw and washer to prevent the sled from tipping when it's pulled back. Tested it out making a test frame from some leftover frame stock, oak sandwiching padauk.
A clock I made for my wife for our 5th wedding anniversary. Its only the wood anniversary so no pressure, right?
Full disclosure: I didn't make the clock hands, I just bought them off Amazon.
The Majority of the wood used is old (oak?) barn wood taken from the barn that we were married in front of on my family's farm. You can even see an old nail hole next to a hash mark between the 4 and the 5. Used primarily silver "shimmer" vinyl for the clock face which looks great in person but is an absolute nightmare to photograph. I've included a different, if not better, photo as well that shows that part more clearly.
I followed this Fisher's Shop video to learn how to get my weave on.
Update: I painted the hands silver and I think it looks much better.
My first time ever making cutting boards and matching shark coochie boards.
Made these following the Fisher's Shop woven cutting board video.
Woods used:
(Board 1 on left) Walnut, Maple, Canary wood, Padauk, Cherry
(Board 2 on right) Canary wood, Maple, Walnut
A "Fancy" Rabbit House
Made from one 2'x4' sheet of 1/4 inch Birch Ply and two eight foot sticks of cedar trim. House measures 11.5 inches wide by 24" long. Commissioned for Mia by her owner.