0:00

Linux us loud our mics, connecting those

0:02

headphones as we prepare. those headphones as we

0:04

prepare to get I'm joined by

0:06

my and fantastic fellow co -hosts

0:08

Bill and Wendy Bill three friends

0:10

sitting around a virtual table

0:13

a virtual table talking Linux, open source, tech gaming,

0:15

in between. in We keep the We

0:17

friendly, the the banter friendly, the conversation and we

0:19

have fun doing it this week. have fun

0:22

doing it. off week, we're spotting off All

0:24

kinds of fun things, I

0:26

think. So get into into

0:28

episode 104. Bill,

0:31

nice to have you

0:33

back. You know, I

0:35

do like having Matt

0:37

here. He's kind of

0:39

like that brother that,

0:41

you know, nice to have you

0:43

back. know, I do like having Matt here.

0:45

He's kind of like that brother. that

0:48

you know you know, There's

0:50

the one that like you gave you swirly's and

0:52

stairs you down to some stairs and such

0:54

like that, or put you in a box

0:56

and a you down the stairs, but. it down

0:58

the stairs. But I'm the size he

1:01

is now, so he can't do it now, so he

1:03

But you're also like that brother that would

1:05

probably also me out or that would probably, pin up

1:07

a chair against the closet and leave me

1:09

and my parents walking closet for me to

1:11

scream and cry and everything else. my how you

1:13

doing? walk in I'm doing

1:15

great me to scream any hesitation,

1:17

I would absolutely do that

1:19

to you. you doing? I'm doing great.

1:21

in present day, but

1:23

I will say that joining

1:25

me tonight you. are two

1:27

other co-hosts, because because behind me

1:29

we have and Millie. We've

1:31

got Dago's joining we've got

1:34

they joining us, so they will

1:36

be me helping me with the

1:38

content that I I to give

1:40

everybody tonight. Let

1:42

me guess, Let me run They run

1:44

Puppy Linux. They do

1:46

run puppy linux, but before then

1:48

one of my other dogs my

1:50

other dogs ran Yellow Dog

1:53

Linux. For all of those

1:55

out there that remember remember for

1:57

the Linux for the power PC architecture.

2:00

was an old dog there. Old dog, new tricks. Yeah.

2:03

Well, that's good, right? Whatever.

2:07

it Always, always happy to be

2:10

here on the show with you both. I

2:13

guess I will have to fill Matt's

2:15

rather small shoes. Well,

2:19

they don't have to smell the same though. Oh,

2:22

I think God knows, right? Oh,

2:24

thank virtual smells,

2:26

whoa. whatever

2:29

you imagine them to be I'm

2:31

not going to a trend to scratch

2:33

and smell my camera that might affect the

2:36

recording a little bit. I

2:38

definitely think it would. Yes, yes. I think that

2:40

would have a negative impact. Let's not do

2:42

that. So is well with

2:44

me, it is the end of the

2:46

year and I'm kind of winding down

2:48

some projects at work, lots of installs

2:50

that need to get done. people

2:53

moving buildings, signing new leases, new

2:55

equipment going in, old equipment going out.

2:57

This is a time of year

2:59

when everybody does their budget planning. So

3:01

I've been driving around to lots

3:03

of various clients and establishing what upgrades

3:05

do you need next year and

3:07

how can we get some Linux into

3:09

your network? So we've

3:12

been discussing some home

3:14

assistant installations and even just

3:16

little gadgets like... I

3:18

think it's called Le Potato, which

3:20

is a raspberry pie clone,

3:23

and it's very inexpensive. Yeah. I

3:25

know that one. Yes. think we've talked about it

3:27

here before. I think we

3:29

have. Because I got one for Christmas

3:32

a couple years ago. Well,

3:34

let me tell you one amazing

3:36

purpose for them. If you

3:38

have a battery backup in your

3:40

home, whether it's connected to

3:42

your workstation or your NAS or

3:44

your network, a little potato

3:46

in a box can plug into

3:49

your UPS

3:51

via USB. Potato

3:53

a box. That's what we'll call it now if

3:55

I cut it up and put it in a

3:57

bag Is that a bag of? potato

4:00

chips. chips. We'll let the,

4:02

let let the, the audience how you, out.

4:04

you're from. Well, if you

4:06

fry one, if you fry one

4:09

of those, then it's definitely

4:11

a it's destined, if you fry one that's

4:13

for another day. it's kind of partial to

4:15

steak fries, just saying. But

4:17

that's for another day. I'm

4:20

kind of Okay, I can give you that.

4:22

fries, just saying. Okay. I

4:24

What we're doing with them What we're

4:26

doing with them is. I'm I'm

4:28

gonna have to start this whole

4:30

segment over. whole segment over. No, it's okay. No,

4:32

just keep going. Okay. So the goal goal of

4:34

these is to help people and

4:36

and understand when they have

4:38

power outages or power blips on

4:40

their network. Because here in

4:42

New England, the weather changes every

4:44

five minutes. minutes. will be thundering,

4:46

lightning, snowing, raining and all at

4:48

the same time. And I

4:50

have witnessed have phenomenon. But

4:52

battery backups don't like those kind

4:55

of volatile changes. And so how

4:57

do we? so how do we Remediate

4:59

that? Well, you don't. You

5:01

don't. learn but you do learn

5:03

before it's a problem or at least

5:05

when it's a problem. we've So we've

5:07

decided to build out these little lure

5:09

potatoes and they basically send

5:11

our help desk or somebody else an

5:14

email saying, else in email saying, on

5:16

battery power battery power been restored been or

5:18

you've been on battery power a long

5:20

time. I'm gonna start shutting things

5:22

down gracefully to save your data. to

5:24

save your a fun project that we're doing

5:26

and trying to introduce to people. to Do

5:29

you have like any reference material

5:31

on that? reference material on that? I don't want me

5:33

to sidetrack you, but this might be, this is something

5:36

I'd be interested in this might be, this is something

5:38

I'd be Very easy, you can run...

5:40

So, very It's called can run, you can run,

5:42

it's called Nut network UPS tools. You can run

5:44

that as a Docker container. There's

5:46

also also APC UPSD, if you have an

5:48

you have an APC

5:50

branded UPS. lots of there's lots

5:53

of documentation out there

5:55

on and and other repositories

5:57

and where you can get

5:59

information. needed to build this project

6:01

out. I'm even using it

6:03

at home. It's been very helpful for me

6:05

in my own lab environment. But

6:09

something more fun. that

6:11

we're getting into is

6:13

we're build an arcade cabinet at

6:16

work. Oh wow. Yeah. Heck yeah. Now

6:18

prompted that? So we are in

6:20

the process of remodeling our office, as

6:22

you know. And the

6:25

boss was in to help us

6:27

figure out the break room. So

6:29

install sink and put in a

6:31

water machine and a microwave and

6:33

refrigerator. And he happened to catch.

6:35

the little mini Intel NUC that we

6:37

have downstairs in our conference room that

6:39

we use for retro gaming at

6:41

lunch sometimes. And he thought that was

6:43

really cool. And we said, this

6:45

would be a lot of fun if

6:47

we could take this design and

6:49

put it into an arcade cabinet with

6:51

buttons and sticks and maybe 3D

6:53

print the... Platform that it sits

6:55

on and maybe put our company logo on

6:57

a piece of vinyl on the side and

6:59

who knows, maybe customers will want to buy

7:01

these from us for their own purposes. So

7:04

he has agreed to give us the materials that we

7:06

need from the leftover. plywood

7:08

that we're using to do

7:10

the renovations, and one of

7:12

our technicians who plays with

7:14

the 3D printer downstairs is

7:16

going to fabricate the controls

7:18

and the buttons to give

7:20

it those concave arcade

7:23

button feels that everybody likes

7:25

very much. So that's gonna

7:27

be the fun that we

7:29

get to have. coming up and

7:31

we're all looking forward to that. What

7:34

are you gonna install as the

7:36

operating system on there? Or am

7:38

I jumping the gun on you?

7:40

apologize. No, actually, you actually raised

7:42

a good point because we looked

7:44

at a couple of different iterations

7:46

of this, whether it be retro

7:48

arch, flat, or a custom built

7:50

distro like Laka OS or Batasera.

7:52

And we elected to go with

7:54

Batocera because it was pretty much

7:56

the easiest to use and set

7:58

up and there's little videos of

8:00

each game. as select you select a

8:02

game and a console. So we

8:04

really liked that effect. And it it

8:06

also seemed to be the most

8:08

responsive at indexing all of the title

8:11

We'll call them the title screens of the

8:13

games, because those can take a long

8:15

time to kind of associate with each game.

8:17

And the person that runs the person that

8:19

runs our shop into very much into

8:21

retro gaming and he thought this

8:23

was a phenomenal project that he could

8:25

could. kind of get off the ground

8:28

and he's had so much fun with it.

8:30

And I'm, I can't wait, And I wait until

8:32

it's done. So that's going to be something

8:34

that I'm going to learn about because fabrication

8:36

is a little bit new to me. I'm

8:38

not a little bit new to me. I'm not very

8:40

tool handy given my experience

8:42

with parts in my right in my

8:45

so. leg. So I'm going to going to let

8:47

the professionals deal with that and maybe I'll get

8:49

to. I'll get to learn and tool around

8:51

with it and design things and

8:53

bring out my natural creative vibe. vibe.

8:55

Nice. Now start dyeing your

8:57

hair green and like letting it your

8:59

hair green part of it go letting it

9:01

kind of face, of it go over

9:04

your face, know, of emo style. No, it

9:06

won't it won't be be That's a

9:08

little too a Sousa for me. I'd

9:10

probably for me. I'd Yeah, I

9:12

knew where you were going with that. Yeah, I know

9:14

I'm not gonna fall for your with that. And no,

9:16

I'm not going to fall for your

9:19

ruses. and green blue a little bit

9:21

of both. maybe, a little think about it. both.

9:23

I'll think about it. I

9:25

I can do that. I've done that before. that

9:27

before. But I mix in a

9:29

little red and I put RGB in

9:31

the arcade cabinet, that will make it go

9:33

faster. cabinet, that true. make it go

9:36

makes everything go faster. makes

9:38

debatable, go but It's Especially

9:40

if it pulsates yeah. Especially

9:42

if it pulsates. No.

9:45

I have no. this very very bad

9:47

bad feeling that the machine

9:49

is going to somehow get ingested

9:51

into the into the home work, which

9:54

has turned work, which has

9:56

turned from a helpful utility

9:58

into into a baseline for

10:01

pranks for pranks to be played

10:03

on people in the office. Nice. Nice.

10:05

Yes. I can see this. Especially with some

10:07

I can see this, especially

10:10

with some of the other things that you've

10:12

told us about that go on in that

10:14

office. that Yeah, not surprised. Some

10:16

of those talk about on the

10:18

show. about on the show. We

10:20

actually had a very nice a

10:23

very nice episode as

10:25

we were... as we chatting

10:27

about that. that. Now speaking of

10:29

3D printers and creating

10:32

speaking of 3D printers and creating

10:34

and crafting, Wendy, I understand that

10:36

you have been able to remediate

10:38

some of the issues with your

10:40

3D printer. I'd like to know

10:42

more about that. yes so I yes.

10:44

So I have complained about

10:46

having these constant issues with bed

10:48

leveling. and one one of the

10:50

episodes, I can't remember which one

10:52

it was, but I did

10:54

share what that bed mesh looked

10:56

like and it was an

10:58

absolute disaster, right? Just an absolute

11:00

disaster in high points in the

11:02

middle my all of my like, what

11:04

low. is So I'm like, And

11:06

in the world is going on?

11:08

out taken and out from under

11:10

it and all kinds of different

11:13

things I was getting some I was getting

11:15

some prints to finish because we've had

11:17

stuff that's got to be printed for

11:19

the robot. the robot. The quality just wasn't

11:21

as good as I was like it

11:23

to. There was places where the

11:25

print was perfect and other places places

11:27

though it had done the bed mesh,

11:29

it wasn't adjusting for it. It

11:31

was still sitting way too low on

11:33

the bed. way And if you've seen

11:35

that issue, then it's got the it's

11:37

instead of your nice fine lines

11:39

inside of it. fine lines inside of it.

11:41

messing with a 3D printer again

11:43

today. today. trying to

11:45

get a set of parts

11:47

for the robot to print, to

11:49

and I'm realizing that my printhead

11:51

has wobble to it. it. Huh?

11:53

Yeah, that's Yeah, that's probably

11:55

having a negative impact as

11:57

the touch is going around the...

12:00

and making sure that

12:02

it's actually reading

12:04

properly. properly. So, grabbed a set set

12:06

of pliers, tighten it up. guess

12:09

Guess what? instantly

12:11

when when I ran the bed

12:13

mesh again this drastic changes

12:15

that I had they've gone they were

12:17

gone. Yeah, I I got the

12:19

bed level pretty good. It's

12:21

printing beautifully at the moment.

12:24

Felt like an idiot, moment, felt

12:26

like an idiot. you know. hey, you know.

12:28

If If you're having issues with

12:30

bed with bed leveling, the stability of

12:32

the nozzle. the nozzle. all Make sure nice

12:34

nice and tight and that all the

12:36

wheels are tight So part of the reason of

12:38

the reason why I was printing

12:40

the parts that I did is

12:42

I decided to wanted to try annealing

12:45

some parts. So fiber fiber, nylon

12:47

carbon fiber that I have says that

12:49

for the best strength, it really

12:51

is meant in the instructions to

12:53

go through the annealing process. process. and

12:55

I've never done that before with

12:57

my prints, just use them, and so

12:59

and so I wanted to try

13:01

it out. The kids and kids

13:03

and I went to a local

13:05

second -hand store. Last week, we picked

13:07

up a toaster oven for 20

13:09

bucks sticking because I'm gonna be

13:11

sticking plastic in there. I don't

13:13

wanna run food. I want to want

13:15

to buy an expensive one. So

13:17

got a really, really cheap toaster

13:19

oven, threw them in there.

13:21

and the worst part about the

13:24

toaster oven method is you're not

13:26

entirely sure of which temperature

13:28

you're setting it at. So setting

13:30

was so it about 200 degrees Fahrenheit

13:32

for 70-ish minutes is what I had them

13:34

running for. for I measured them

13:36

after they came out. It looks

13:39

like like They're still pretty good. still pretty

13:41

good in case in case the shrinking process

13:43

of going the the annealing, whether so

13:45

makes it so they're no longer

13:47

usable because they weren't sized up.

13:49

up to account for the shrinkage. So I've

13:52

got got another set of those

13:54

printing right now. that the annealing annealing

13:56

process does for this, especially

13:58

with the carbon fiber. is it

14:00

helps align everything back up. You

14:02

get a nice. supposedly

14:04

better strength. And

14:06

I'm using the polymaker

14:08

carbon fiber. It

14:11

was formerly called

14:13

polymide something. I'll drop it

14:15

here in the show notes. But I

14:17

really, really liked it overall, but it does

14:19

say, you know, go through the annealing.

14:21

So I have done that just for kicks

14:24

and giggles. If it works, great. If

14:26

not, well, Well, we'll see.

14:29

I'm almost out of this filament,

14:31

unfortunately. We ended up printing a

14:33

lot of carbon fiber stuff

14:35

over the last. I

14:37

guess I picked it up this spring. It's

14:39

pretty much all been robot stuff. But

14:42

there are some other parts that we

14:44

would like to print, like I

14:47

was talking about the shifter knob replacement

14:49

in my husband's pickup. So

14:51

that would be nice because it's light,

14:53

very durable, Cause the other one broke out.

14:55

Oh, so I've got the centerpiece right

14:57

here. So we had been

14:59

driving it. It's still in there. So

15:01

we're driving it right now. The shift knob

15:03

is on the pickup, but the center

15:06

is out of it. So it still stabs

15:08

into your hand every time you go. That's

15:10

a good time right there. The shift. Yeah, it's

15:12

great. It's absolutely great. So you

15:14

know getting getting one of those printed

15:16

and it would be nice Because

15:18

one of the the advantages of the

15:20

annealing is after that's done. It

15:22

has higher heat resistance now inside

15:25

the pickup, it's not going to

15:27

get hard enough to melt it

15:29

cause this is the nylon. it

15:31

would be an issue if it was PLA

15:33

and you still after the annealing process wouldn't work

15:35

inside of a car You need at least

15:37

PETG in order to do that But

15:39

I'm curious, I'm interested to see how

15:41

this works. So we'll take two

15:44

sets of these with us tomorrow and

15:46

we'll see how it goes. No,

15:50

I'm curious. So you actually

15:52

anneal plastic. Similarly

15:54

as you did Really? Yeah.

15:56

I had no idea. Yeah,

15:58

it's new to me too, didn't know that. - could be done. So

16:02

it really depends on the spec sheet

16:04

because if they're meant to be annealed,

16:06

not all of them are. It's typically

16:08

ones where you want a crystalline structure

16:11

or a semi -crystalline structure. So

16:13

not all of them are meant to

16:15

be annealed, but if inside the spec

16:17

sheet it says, hey, this is a

16:19

good idea to do this, it'll give

16:21

you the preferred temperature in order to

16:24

do that on that filament. So

16:26

it is possible. I know I'd heard

16:28

of it with metal before, especially like

16:30

knife making that kind of thing in

16:32

order to help strengthen it. So you

16:34

can also do that with 3D prints.

16:37

The more you know. Do -do -do -do -do -do.

16:39

Right? That's

16:42

got to go in here

16:44

now Nate you had some

16:46

frustrations jumping into the show

16:48

tonight because well, chrome.

16:53

I did. I I

16:56

got that solved now, not a big deal. I just had to

16:58

write it there because I was late. I just

17:00

want you to know, hey, I'm

17:02

reinstalling Chrome because it won't let

17:04

me get into this riverside .fm.

17:06

Then I reinstalled it. and

17:08

it didn't work. So I went to Chromium and that's

17:10

what right now. Anyway,

17:12

of funny because I had to

17:15

switch from Chromium to make Riverside

17:17

happy. It wanted chrome. so yeah,

17:19

it's kind of weird that Chrome

17:21

isn't working for you and you

17:23

are using Chromium. Maybe I could

17:25

have used Chromium this time. But

17:27

your real topic is all about

17:29

language and being able to learn

17:31

more languages with flat packs. Yeah,

17:34

so I've been using Duolingo. I

17:36

think that's how you pronounce it

17:38

properly on mobile and

17:40

more recently in the web

17:43

browser. And that's some... That's

17:46

been fine. you You know.

17:48

and doing that. And then I

17:50

was, I think it was

17:52

because of, Linux saloon we're looking

17:54

at just different applications, and I

17:56

stumbled upon an unofficial Duolingo

17:59

app. for, Well,

18:02

in Flatpak for, you know, the

18:04

Linux desktop and so I thought. Well,

18:07

this is cool. So

18:09

I started using it and I really like

18:11

it. Not because it's anything better

18:13

than what you have in a web

18:15

browser, but just to have it separated

18:17

out because, As

18:19

you know, I think Bill is pretty

18:21

well aware, I'm very irresponsible with leaving

18:23

lots of tabs open in my browser.

18:25

And so if you lose something, I

18:27

lose stuff in my browser all the

18:29

time. It's just, you know. It's

18:32

just what happens, And Anyway.

18:35

so I've lost dual

18:37

lingo in there. Like if I had hop

18:39

away for something, like maybe I'm taking a break

18:41

from work or I'm taking a break from

18:44

something and I'm just doing dual lingo and I

18:46

get distracted or whatever, then I forget about

18:48

it and then I don't finish my lesson

18:50

and then you get like the angry notifications on

18:52

your phone. So anyway. right. And

18:54

I don't like doing it on the phone. I I know

18:56

mean. I know it's meant for a touch interface and it

18:58

actually works well for touch interface but just when you have

19:00

to like type in the answers like if you to, know.

19:03

whatever it is. Yeah, I like

19:05

my keyboard to type things out. Mm -hmm. Yes.

19:07

Yes. Yeah. So,

19:10

this is great. I really like using the keyboard

19:12

for basically all Duolingo. It's It's almost like it's

19:14

made for keyboard because it's so much quicker you

19:16

know, you have to do you like matching the

19:18

sounds or the words, whatever. You can do that

19:20

very quickly with the number the number or the

19:22

number pad, whatever you want to do. And then

19:24

you can do the What

19:27

you start like, whether you're typing

19:29

out the full sentences or the full words, or

19:31

if it's just the blocks that are going

19:33

up. If you start typing the blocks, it'll pick

19:35

them out as you go as well. So

19:37

that works really nice too. Every

19:39

once in a while, I I do hit enter,

19:41

erroneously, and then I like, I up. but That's

19:44

fine. Um, But the way. It's

19:46

not like this is a very exciting application because

19:48

it's just a web wrapper. But It's

19:51

one of those like little creature comfort things, you know,

19:53

that owl stare at you in your taskbar. as

19:56

opposed to hiding in your browser. That's really

19:58

the big thing. And also, I do. want

20:00

to, you know, I'm not I'm not applications,

20:02

but I do really enjoy the fact that

20:04

the fact that one, the developers, the,

20:06

who maintain this, The developers, money off people

20:08

who maintain this, of humor on their money

20:10

off of this. They have a

20:12

sense of humor on there. you know, you you to

20:14

do multiple languages, no problem. pay You know, you have to

20:16

watch the ads or you can pay for it. And

20:18

I don't like cloud applications, but I do make an

20:21

exception for this one kind of become a It's kind

20:23

of become a little bit of a social media

20:25

type app, not really, but with my family, because

20:27

we're constantly like like... one another,

20:29

you know, through it. it. Yes. So that's

20:31

been been kind of fun. And

20:33

And then. like there's a lot of like there's

20:35

a lot of like little

20:37

funny things the in the

20:39

application maybe, maybe the peak of this is

20:41

hilarious is you the take the of

20:43

learn is hilarious have cling can take

20:45

the time to learn Klingon. not

20:47

have Klingon as a language

20:50

option. should do I'm not saying this is I'm

20:52

you should do do a link. I'm

20:54

not We don't not going to a kickbacks be

20:56

nice. Although be nice. But Klingon is one of

20:58

the language options options that to me is

21:00

funny. So if I ever So if I ever

21:02

decide I Star Trek larp at a Klingon. Star Trek

21:04

convention I could probably brush

21:06

up on Klingon brush up

21:08

on Klingon and That's pretty cool. lingo,

21:11

Do they have cool. Do they have Elvish?

21:13

I didn't see didn't see it. that'd be

21:15

be if did. did. So, Nate, I I actually

21:17

want to take that a step further a you've because

21:20

you've both of touched upon something

21:22

here that resonates with me. with

21:24

me wouldn't it be cool? be

21:26

cool if if there is

21:28

a a Linux-based tablet with a with

21:31

a detachable keyboard for schools where

21:33

that flat pack could be one of

21:35

the icons in the could be

21:37

one of the icons. taskbar the

21:39

system tray or the task bar or

21:41

the desktop. the younger So I'm thinking

21:43

of the younger students that are learning

21:46

a language, maybe an elementary school, school,

21:48

that browsing to a site

21:50

might be a little bit

21:53

unnecessary. unnecessary. But I could grab

21:55

that that flat pack and I can make that

21:57

as part of part of a install of a

21:59

system. Now I've I've

22:01

created an amazing educational tool

22:03

that is that is still open source

22:05

based. Right. And you both of you know

22:07

of you know that I've worked in education

22:09

for a long time and so that and

22:11

so of you know you know to me a

22:13

little a of all those things out cuz

22:15

you're things out so guess what we could

22:18

do? we could do. Exactly. you've done

22:20

is what you've done is you've

22:22

you've You've inspired me

22:24

for me for time this time

22:26

to. maybe try this out on some

22:28

of the tablets that we have kicking

22:30

around the office to see if this

22:33

is a viable utility for some of

22:35

my schools to try out. some of my inspired

22:37

as opposed to psychologically inspired saying. opposed to

22:39

psychologically drain news out your saying?

22:41

a side note, sticking with with

22:43

I know... I know I've shared

22:46

multiple times that. that Since I've

22:48

switched to to Orca it is my absolute

22:50

favorite. Right Right now it got it

22:52

pulled from the A-U-R and there there was it

22:54

that it was supposed to be

22:56

coming in a flat in but there

22:58

hasn't been one yet. one One of

23:00

the listeners of the show has created

23:03

a flat pack of Orca Slicer

23:05

and has asked me to do some

23:07

testing on it. on it. So I will

23:09

come back to you next episode with

23:11

some information on that, which this

23:13

is coming at the perfect time time

23:15

as I've talked about before, talked I

23:18

would like to get things switched

23:20

over to a Fedora -based system.

23:22

It's It's having issues with my

23:24

printers again today. It

23:26

doesn't matter what I do. what I

23:28

I send the file to

23:30

the printer and say print. on both

23:32

sides. Long Long edge flip, right? go

23:35

to my I go to

23:37

my printer, I say, loaded, it's

23:39

loaded, yes, go ahead. it's

23:41

still printing still printing So, I

23:43

will be making this a I

23:45

will be making this

23:48

a priority to get

23:50

things switched over because,

23:52

yeah, like said, it's

23:54

still frustrated with printers

23:56

at the moment. it wasn't

23:58

it wasn't an issue before. for the

24:00

current update, though I have

24:02

had a chat with another

24:04

friend behind the scenes about

24:06

printer issues. He was having

24:08

some issues on Mint, found

24:10

out that, and I'd have

24:12

to, I don't remember exactly

24:15

what he said the issue

24:17

was, but I know there

24:19

was a conflict between some

24:21

of the other packages and

24:23

the official Epson printer drivers

24:25

and that he needed to

24:27

uninstall something so that the,

24:29

Epson drivers would take priority and then that

24:31

fixed a lot of the printing issues

24:33

for him. but

24:35

it's not just my Epson

24:37

printer. So my laser printer,

24:39

which has additional issues with

24:41

it right now too, but

24:43

my HP Epson. right now it will

24:45

not let me send double -sided prints to

24:47

it at all. Cannot. I'm

24:49

only allowed to send single -sided

24:51

prints to it. from this

24:54

system, and I have no idea

24:56

why. So multiple frustrations with printing.

24:58

I will be making the jump

25:00

to Fedora, but because we have

25:02

family coming here. next

25:04

week and my house has

25:06

been a bit neglected between

25:08

editing shows, school stuff, robotics, and

25:12

the like. I will be spending

25:14

most of next week getting caught up

25:16

on house stuff before then. So

25:18

hopefully first of the year, end of

25:20

December, I will be making the

25:22

switch to Fedora. You

25:25

know, I don't know if that's a a Fedora issue

25:27

because my HP laser jet which

25:29

I think is a similar not laser

25:31

jet but I think we got like the

25:33

exact same model. think we have the

25:35

exact same model. Yeah. It It

25:37

won't let double -sided print. But

25:40

I forced it to do that with

25:42

the HP driver or things. but

25:45

time I try to print it, it says

25:47

there's an error in my configuration. I

25:49

don't know what the problem is but I

25:51

just say ignore or no, do

25:53

you to correct this? I say no, and then

25:55

it will print double -sided anyway. So there's something goofy

25:57

there going on with the whole printing system. Interesting.

26:01

Okay. Yeah. I'm actually avoiding

26:03

all HP printers moving forward

26:05

because they now need an

26:07

internet connection. See, and that's

26:10

where Matt or Nate and

26:12

I are lucky, because we

26:14

have those older models. And

26:16

to be honest. I have

26:19

loved my Epson Inco take

26:21

printers. They've been absolutely fantastic.

26:23

The biggest downside to them

26:25

is they are an inkjet.

26:28

And so yeah, they print

26:30

slow. And when you're trying

26:32

to print a math workbook,

26:34

that takes ages for it

26:37

to come through the inkjet

26:39

printer. That's one of the

26:41

reasons why I have the

26:43

laser in the first place.

26:46

But I messed up and I

26:48

think I've talked about this on

26:51

the show before and I bought

26:53

some cheaper, you know, off the

26:55

cuff refills toner for it and

26:57

it's printed like crap ever since.

27:00

And I don't have it to

27:02

where it's updating, right? It has

27:04

no connection to the internet other

27:07

than to see the Wi-Fi. I

27:09

know in settings I have it

27:11

set so it won't auto update

27:13

so that I could use. non-name

27:16

brand toner refills and I think

27:18

it's the toner. I think it's

27:20

the toner, but at the same

27:22

time I don't want to pay

27:25

a thousand dollars for the official

27:27

replacement ones and so it's left

27:29

me torn in what to do

27:31

with it because I miss having

27:34

a fully function laser printer but

27:36

at the same time. I

27:39

don't want to wait for the

27:41

Epson to print seven. And there's

27:43

just certain things that look better

27:45

coming off the laser printer. Yes.

27:47

Some things that just look way

27:49

better. The way I've tackled printers

27:51

here at home is I have

27:53

my, I have brother printers, which

27:55

have been rather bulletproof for me

27:57

and I have a. inkjet

27:59

a laser. Okay,

28:02

mine are actually running

28:04

through a cups server

28:06

that I have running on my

28:08

Pi and one of my pies on

28:10

my network because I find that

28:12

by browsing to the cups interface, I

28:14

have a lot more control over what

28:16

the printer is doing. So

28:18

I'll browse to the cup server,

28:21

know, colon 631 and we'll say, hello,

28:23

welcome to the cup server. What

28:25

printer do you want to manipulate? And

28:27

I will say the BrotherHL2270DW behind

28:29

me. What would you like to do

28:31

that? Well, I'd like to print

28:34

double -sided. Okay. So

28:36

CUPS has been one of those very,

28:38

very helpful tools and it's actually something

28:40

I'm going to be rolling out at

28:42

a number of my schools and other

28:45

places. that

28:47

have. no window left and

28:49

they have other devices that need to

28:51

be able to print. So how do I

28:53

centralize print serving? that's how I'm going

28:55

to do it. And some of the other

28:57

places I'll use another product that plays

28:59

nice with Google Workspace and Azure Active Directory

29:01

and Control, who can print to what?

29:03

But But for a lot of the basic

29:05

stuff, you can run CUPS even I

29:07

think in a Docker container and it just

29:10

just works. Give that a try.

29:12

really like the idea of that, especially

29:14

where I've got so many. And

29:17

And we've got

29:19

a a fourth printer

29:21

out there that we've never

29:23

set up. We've had it since

29:25

this summer because I was

29:27

wanting to turn it into an

29:29

H... Oh my gosh, wrong

29:32

thing, a DTF printer. So

29:34

direct to film so you can add that

29:36

to like shirts and that kind of thing. And

29:39

I just realized right now, I don't

29:41

have the time. so that one,

29:43

it is a, supposed to be a

29:45

photo quality eco tank printer. So I

29:47

think I'm gonna go ahead and

29:49

just set that up because there's some

29:51

other things, guess what, that we can

29:54

print for robotics off of that.

29:56

So I'm gonna go ahead and set that one up

29:58

the way it is. But then that has this. minus

30:00

the 3D printer for printers

30:02

with the the laser, the Epson, that's a

30:05

that's a regular inkjet, the

30:07

Epson, that's a sublimation, and

30:09

then... and then the Epson photo

30:12

How does it differ? it differ running

30:14

a centralized cups print

30:16

server versus on each computer. on

30:19

each computer? What you do when

30:21

you do when you go to add the

30:23

printers, you add it as a network

30:25

printer. printer. So if your printer printer

30:27

is only instance, or instance

30:29

say it's Wi-Fi, or let's say if you

30:31

or even if you have it connected

30:33

Ethernet, what cups What CUPS does is it take

30:36

that take that little... device and

30:38

device a turn that into

30:40

a network print server. have multiple

30:42

you have multiple users that need to

30:44

be able to access that printer

30:46

and you're having problems using the printers

30:48

built the printers built in Wi-Fi or sporadic or

30:51

you have driver issues, what what cups

30:53

can do is help stabilize that environment

30:55

a little bit bit give you more

30:57

control over the device. I give it a try.

30:59

I it a try. I know that

31:01

you have multiple printers and multiple

31:03

machines and multiple people all using it.

31:05

It may also be something you

31:07

want for your you community. If you

31:10

have a printer in a shared classroom.

31:12

If you have a can just deploy

31:14

that printer setting to all of

31:16

those setting to all of those via that

31:18

little lure that device and

31:20

because and can run run. Docker and

31:22

cups. Now Now you can

31:24

have it serving other systems as well

31:26

as well for your classroom.

31:28

Nice. Yeah. Very cool. I will definitely

31:31

be will definitely be looking into

31:33

that. remember I remember you guys talking about those

31:35

printers when you got them and I actually

31:37

remember where I was driving. I

31:39

was was driving. I on

31:41

traffic on traffic on Interstate 91

31:44

in Connecticut, screaming at my radio you

31:46

you both need to get a

31:48

cup server on your network when

31:50

this happened. today I have had

31:52

my day. I have had my yes,

31:54

yes you have have and later

31:57

years later. Exactly. What's

31:59

funny is that since I'm I'm

32:01

not on here all the time, when I listen

32:03

to the shows, which I do every time they

32:05

come out, I remember where I am when I

32:07

listen to the show. than sometimes than sometimes

32:09

the content itself. I'll say, oh yeah, I

32:11

know rose when I I was listening to that show.

32:13

I was in show I was in and B. place A

32:15

and B. funny. That's what you were going

32:17

to say that you talk to us

32:19

when we can't hear you, which

32:21

is totally to us I do that to

32:24

which is to, I do that to

32:26

shows I I'm editing. I even do

32:28

that while editing this show, like while to

32:30

you when you show like actually. You want

32:32

to hear something sad, when you

32:34

that is, I can actually hear

32:37

your voice in my head

32:39

when you're editing I can actually hear your

32:41

voice in my head when you're

32:43

haunts me. show. It haunts

32:45

me at night. The therapist

32:47

said I'll be ha, ha! The

32:49

therapist said I'll be okay

32:52

eventually good. That's good. that's good.

32:54

That's good. glad. of a

32:56

weasel word. It it's kind

32:58

of never. But just Nate, I actually have

33:00

joined I actually have

33:02

joined while driving driving home

33:04

from Neil's house house when

33:06

we have gone to to

33:08

stuff so stuff. So I, I.

33:11

Generally up of shows and even

33:13

even and show depending on where

33:15

I on where I

33:17

am. on, the And then will come back

33:19

to the topic will come back to me. That's

33:21

how that printer thing triggered. Weird side. Very nice. I'm

33:23

I'm glad it did. I'm glad

33:25

we got way off brought brought it

33:28

up that the cup I hope that

33:30

the cup solution helps somebody out

33:32

in our community. Mm-hmm. Most definitely.

33:34

For should try that for sure like bill it

33:36

looks like you're out out your lab. Is this

33:38

like an annual thing? thing? Yes,

33:41

sometimes sometimes more years than others.

33:43

a this year was a big one.

33:45

So home labors all of you homelabbers

33:48

out there, I'm going to give you

33:50

a piece of advice. not over Do

33:52

not over -collect. that on

33:54

hardware that you'll never use it it devalues

33:56

and then it's hard to get rid

33:58

of it. rid of it. Fortunately

34:00

for me, I was

34:02

able to pass along some of

34:04

that hardware to my colleagues at work

34:06

that wanted some more experience or even

34:08

just to get their own lab started.

34:11

But because of the debacle I had

34:13

with the rack coming off the wall,

34:15

I no longer had a place to

34:17

put some of the larger equipment that

34:19

I had intended on setting up. So

34:21

I had some various 48 port poe

34:23

10 gig switches that I

34:25

had pulled out of a place

34:28

I basically a year before and they just sat and

34:30

I thought, okay, I'm going to take out all the

34:32

ubiquity gear. I'm going to implement this gear and I'm

34:34

going to have some fun with it. it. well

34:37

Well, life and time.

34:39

sometimes work against you and

34:41

you have to be realistic. sometimes.

34:43

the other challenge is

34:46

then navigating the space,

34:48

just the physical room that that. stuff

34:50

takes up. So was able to unload

34:53

a lot of the equipment that I

34:55

was no longer using that makes room

34:57

for new equipment that then I can

34:59

use and try out as time goes

35:01

along. But for now, I'm gonna

35:03

enjoy the fact that I can actually see some

35:05

of the floor. in my

35:07

lab area. So do you got

35:09

the rack remounted or do you still

35:11

have everything pulled off of that and

35:13

waiting for that to get remounted? I've

35:16

not remounted anything on the

35:18

wall mounted rack. So for full

35:21

context, I have two racks. I

35:23

have a 42U two rack. that

35:25

has a lot of my production equipment

35:28

in it. that's, we'll say in the

35:30

left side of the home lab. Immediately

35:32

to the right of that mounted on

35:34

the plywood is the 8U rack and

35:36

the workbench, which is on casters slides

35:38

underneath that. So I can look at

35:40

a wall mounted monitor, the 8U rack,

35:42

and then I have my space in

35:44

front of me for the keyboard and,

35:46

Nate, you're gonna like this one.

35:48

Nice, Nice, yeah. A Microsoft

35:51

IntelliMouse Trackball Explorer. Wow.

35:55

That this a bill

35:57

original that you

35:59

purchased? back in the day. day? It is

36:01

from is from 1999. It is still working.

36:03

It is still working. I item

36:05

is a it item light it gets

36:07

very light duty. It's there

36:09

just to kind of help me

36:11

provision my on on

36:13

the bench. So living a living

36:16

a happy part work life retirement

36:18

situation there. there. But But all

36:20

the other equipment that It might last

36:22

you forever. forever. it's like. like... It's

36:24

the things that you don't care to last, to that

36:26

just last forever, they just don't die. It's the

36:28

things that you have baby that actually do die

36:30

because you have baby I'm just saying. do die

36:33

because the track ball regularly with

36:35

rubbing alcohol the I clean the little

36:37

contact points in there so that

36:39

it will run as long as

36:41

possible. Take tweezers and there so that it

36:43

will as long the Take tweezers and pick whatever

36:45

they are. the lit balls by the Dog hair

36:47

or my case, are. but Or dog hair in

36:49

my case, but... But I have been busy

36:51

cleaning things out. My things is

36:53

that one of my lovely co -workers

36:55

is going to come over and

36:58

help me. to come over and use

37:00

the right anchors and the right bolts

37:02

the right the plywood. And he even

37:04

offered to help me rewire things since

37:06

he is quite tall and I

37:08

am not. since he is quite tall and

37:10

I am not. Heck yeah. pretty awesome.

37:12

pretty so that'll be a fun project

37:14

for the two of us. I'm just happy

37:16

I've got space. us. I'm I can keep things

37:18

clean. space. I can keep things clean. I

37:20

can can start the new year fresh. fresh. I

37:23

like it. Good way it. Good way to

37:25

in the new year. So I have my mind

37:27

set have my I set on how I

37:29

want to handle that, Wendy, I think I

37:31

think you're changing your mind about a

37:33

few things. few things. I am. I am,

37:35

I am changing my mind

37:37

about a few things. the

37:39

last last we've talked about these

37:41

different pre -built 3D printers 3D

37:43

printers needing to grow my

37:45

3D printer area. And before

37:47

I get too deep into

37:49

that, I did get a

37:51

comment on And I think this And

37:53

I think this one is

37:55

more directed towards you, Bill,

37:57

because we were talking about very...

38:00

easy to set up, no fast 3D printers

38:02

for when you eventually decide to get

38:04

into it. it. So this person says,

38:06

hello Wendy, it seems like you're

38:08

searching for a new 3D printer. I

38:10

don't know how expensive the Prusa the

38:12

is is the US, but if

38:14

you're searching for a reliable

38:17

printer printer open fully open source also

38:19

has an ecosystem runs great

38:21

on Linux. I could

38:23

highly recommend it. I'm working

38:25

with an with an +, and the

38:27

MK4 for several years now.

38:30

just just the kind

38:32

of forget printer you mentioned

38:34

in the last Linux out loud

38:36

So there is some information

38:38

for you. for like. like

38:41

is loving, well, I'm I'm not

38:43

sure, I don't have an actual

38:45

name. This person is loving

38:47

the Prusa printers. So that might

38:49

be an option for you to

38:51

go down. down. I appreciate that.

38:53

You are the other hand, I on you are

38:56

welcome. have I, on the other hand,

38:58

have changed my mind I've decided. that nope. I

39:00

said before I I said before I

39:02

want to build a printer from

39:04

scratch gosh dang it, that's that's what I'm

39:06

gonna do. And this hit me

39:09

again me again I was helping my

39:11

son look for parts. parts. that that

39:13

he's putting together in a

39:15

CAD file. file. So he's the intake

39:17

on their robot. And And one

39:19

of the nice things about the

39:21

places that supply parts, supply parts, build

39:23

a have they have STL you can

39:25

pull, you can bring them into

39:27

CAD and help with your

39:29

assemblies. And as I was

39:31

on with him pull files, mainly to

39:33

make sure that they were named

39:35

in a way that he could

39:37

find them to he was trying

39:39

to add to his that he could find

39:42

them. Go Build that has

39:44

really cool rail

39:46

series me looks way To me,

39:48

it looks way better than some

39:50

of the other stuff that I've seen

39:52

as far as 3D printers go. got

39:54

these got these really nice

39:56

hard plastic wheels. They've got

39:58

the rail channel. that they can

40:00

run down. There's an example

40:02

of it with a lead screw.

40:04

with I love this idea. so

40:06

so, it before it ever gets

40:09

built, it will It will have to

40:11

be fully catted I want to

40:13

make sure that it is the way I

40:15

the way I want it to

40:17

be I I know kind of

40:19

my parts list before things get

40:21

ordered. But this currently is a

40:23

plan, and I'm not sure if

40:25

I will be using this rail

40:27

channel for all the accesses or

40:29

exactly what I'm going to do. I'm

40:32

going to do. wouldn't want a

40:34

lead screw on your on and

40:36

Y. They just don't move

40:38

fast enough enough order to have. to

40:40

the main as the main. even

40:42

being able to use this

40:44

channel with with belts, so it almost

40:46

makes it like like a rail

40:48

system, system, that you've seen on

40:50

other stuff. stuff. So I'm curious. I

40:52

haven't got to touch these

40:55

parts, but the team the with

40:57

a lot of a lot of go build-up parts.

40:59

seem really, really high quality and you can

41:01

you can get longer sections. We can

41:03

cut them down whatnot, plus they

41:05

have a lot that are. a lot

41:07

that are the way they are. the

41:09

is the way that I'm looking

41:11

at going. I'm The nice thing about

41:13

it thing about lot of these parts. parts.

41:16

are overall pretty cheap, especially when you're

41:18

looking, when I've been looking at

41:20

other linear rail systems and what a

41:22

lot of places are charging for them.

41:24

I'm just like, like, holy crap. So

41:26

this seems like a nice way to

41:28

build a printer. a little do something

41:30

a little bit cheaper that's

41:32

still have something that's

41:34

pretty rail dang solid. plastic wheels, this

41:36

rail system a the plastic wheels. so know,

41:38

if things I'm thinking there's so many things I'm

41:40

thinking for, use this for if you did

41:42

like like, like, Do you own own engraving system

41:44

system or whatever? That would be like, yes. a Make

41:47

a really nice scan tree out

41:49

of that. out of that. But anyway,

41:51

I was just thinking, anyway, we

41:53

had no, this actually this actually

41:55

looks really nice. nice. I did become

41:57

familiar with with Go build this lot this

41:59

fall. it's past fall because of

42:01

my son's involvement. And also, um

42:05

Using the like, downloading the STL files and

42:07

or, I think that's step also maybe to

42:10

know downloading the files. Yeah, I think they

42:12

actually come in step files. so And it's

42:14

step, have have to... And it's step, it's

42:16

step, no, it's STL. STL is

42:18

Stereolithography. Anyway,

42:21

so that was so was helping the the

42:24

kid that was working on the CAD build the

42:26

stuff it can. He actually did a great

42:29

job using SolidWorks, but I also know that in

42:31

Onshape, I think they have like plugins directly

42:33

for Go Builder, I think for some of that

42:35

stuff, I think. Oh, maybe

42:37

it's GoBuilder, it, it's somebody else. So,

42:39

um, check out the on have plugins

42:41

for RIP. Yeah, I need to look in

42:44

that because that would make it a heck

42:46

of a lot faster if there was a

42:48

plugin that you could pull parts from because

42:50

that's one of the bad things about pulling

42:52

stuff from you get it in a zip

42:54

file and the zip file is basically numbered

42:56

with the part number which is great if

42:58

you need to like go order parts. The

43:00

problem is is you're trying to add stuff

43:02

to an assembly and all you're seeing is

43:04

part numbers. it can

43:07

be a bit of a pain. So,

43:11

or to decide, okay, what's the thing

43:13

that I need to pull into the

43:15

import into it. So that would definitely

43:17

make things a lot simpler. I will

43:19

check that out. I know that on

43:21

shape. Um, even has

43:23

a how to build a robotics

43:25

class as part of their,

43:27

their base education framework and stuff.

43:29

They work really well with

43:31

First and the like. So I

43:33

am curious. Yeah, it's it's pretty

43:35

obvious the way they're angling there Yeah.

43:40

Yeah. And to be fair,

43:42

I've got a bit of a

43:44

love relationship with CAD in general

43:46

and assemblies because it's nice. And

43:48

I think I need to just

43:50

learn the tips and tricks to

43:52

help my son learn the tips

43:55

and tricks in order to help

43:57

assemblies go together faster, smoother, and

43:59

all of that. that stuff, but but

44:01

just trying to like to in each

44:03

part, trying to get it positioned

44:05

in the right spot, in the lined

44:07

up, and lined up, and

44:09

then in this CAD, he only added a

44:11

very he only added a very

44:13

few bolts, but putting them

44:15

in particular places to make sure

44:18

that there was going to

44:20

be clearance in those files, and

44:22

not necessarily worrying about it or

44:24

I know that. that. that has become,

44:26

that was an issue for the

44:28

robot this year. The kid

44:30

who did the base CAD for

44:33

their robot this year, their main

44:35

this for it, the original concept.

44:37

the original didn't want to take

44:39

the time to put any of

44:41

the bolts in of the we

44:43

ran into the issue of yeah,

44:45

the that that fit in CAD. because you

44:47

didn't put the bolts in it.

44:49

Now it. Now, pretty obvious, like like, we

44:51

can't get these parts to work

44:53

the way it was intended to

44:55

go together go there just isn't

44:57

enough clearance space for it to

44:59

go together. space for it a good learning

45:01

experience was a good in us trying

45:04

to learn to learn assembly the like being

45:06

able to go, able to go, hey, You

45:08

might want to add the bolt and and

45:10

just make sure that it's actually gonna

45:12

go together the way you want it to.

45:14

it to. This is just an an aside. but on

45:16

shape and a little of a a

45:18

tangent here. of a side I haven't written

45:20

an article on this or anything yet,

45:22

but. article on a flat anything

45:25

yet, but there's a flat pack called

45:27

quick web apps. What you can do is

45:29

you can turn can into an application in your

45:31

menu with it. application in your

45:33

menu with it. And nice. I if

45:36

I use the the chromium back

45:38

opposed to Firefox to whatever,

45:40

or whatever, whatever, seems to

45:42

to me me user

45:44

experience. Interesting. I've

45:46

only ever I've only ever used it

45:48

in a Firefox browser, so maybe

45:50

There is no, there is no, there is No,

45:52

there's no difference in Firefox

45:54

and Chromium when using it, when using it

45:56

because I've tested both and I prefer

45:58

Firefox. Firefox, with this. particular

46:01

quick apps. Chromium tends

46:03

to work better because it actually remembers

46:05

your password and such while the Firefox

46:07

remembers your password and it makes it easier to get

46:09

to log into and everything else. doesn't. So it

46:11

just makes it easier I can have

46:13

log than getting it lost in my browser, which

46:15

I think I've talked about this earlier. I

46:18

can have it for the than getting it lost

46:20

in my browser, which I think I've

46:22

It'd be nice if there was earlier, I can

46:24

have it as unofficial flat pack.

46:26

Be nice if there was like a

46:29

flat pack. In the the meantime, quick web

46:31

very well. very you want So if you want

46:33

to... Yeah, be a nice way to do

46:35

it. And my kids don't always remember

46:37

to share files with me when they're like,

46:39

me this needs printed. And so I'm typically

46:41

having to log into their I'm typically having to

46:43

log files for them so I can

46:45

print it. But I really like that idea.

46:47

it. But I really to do that. idea. I have

46:50

to do that. But something a

46:52

little little today today with some...

46:54

green and red eyeshadow and you

46:56

are screaming Christmas with that

46:58

Santa hat. What do we

47:00

got going on with, Bill? with

47:02

a green shirt. a green shirt

47:04

feeling a little bit festive. a

47:06

little a Christmas shirt I here, but

47:08

it's just too darn cold in

47:11

here underneath now. To be able to take your...

47:13

too darn cold in here right

47:15

now so, be able no, no, no,

47:17

no, no, no, no, no, no no

47:19

no, no, no, no the press. no no

47:21

no no no He does not want

47:23

to show us that shirt because he

47:25

knows that if he does, we're

47:27

going to mock him for his unhealthy

47:30

obsession with open sousa. Yeah, I would care about

47:32

that. wouldn't care about

47:34

that obsession. But it just has lighted up.

47:36

It's got a Christmas tree it's got a

47:38

Christmas tree with lights on it. just I was I

47:40

was just too cold. But you know, I you know,

47:42

I got the lights on around me. These

47:44

are powered by are powered by but that L. E. E. D.

47:46

But that aside. I meant meant to have all my

47:48

stuff already up. I actually started putting up my

47:50

Christmas lights on the outside of my barn. Christmas in

47:53

September. the outside of my And one thing

47:55

after another, either And one something else has slowed

47:57

me down. or something else, is like slowed

47:59

me down. So I don't have

48:01

like all my props out. I haven't

48:03

done all my timings. I haven't done

48:06

all that stuff. Not a big deal.

48:08

I can get that done pretty quickly.

48:10

But anyway, that's what I've been working

48:12

on. And but work has just been

48:15

so in the way. Love my job.

48:17

Gosh, thing work. Having to make money

48:19

gets in the way of fun. Anyway,

48:21

yes. But my job is fun. So

48:24

that's not a big deal. But anyway,

48:26

it's just been one thing after another

48:28

or another or like yesterday. after work

48:30

making baking cookies. So, I mean, there's

48:33

just like lots of things just kind

48:35

of get kind of, I'll get to

48:37

it. Today I was supposed to get

48:39

done with it. I'll probably get, after

48:42

we're done recording, I'll probably get, after

48:44

we're done recording, I'll probably get, I'll

48:46

probably get, after we're done recording, I'll

48:48

probably get working a little bit more,

48:51

but I think I should actually be

48:53

able to put all the props up

48:55

tomorrow. So as long as I get

48:57

up by day one of Christmas, because

49:00

we're an advent season now. Then I'm

49:02

okay. I don't care what everyone else

49:04

does. You know, this is my world.

49:06

I'm going to make it. It's my,

49:09

I can, I'm going to live it

49:11

the way, I want to live it.

49:13

And, uh, because normally about this time

49:15

you're putting out the video showing your

49:18

light show to music and just not

49:20

happening this year, showing your light show

49:22

to music and just not happening this

49:24

year. I mean, you might get it

49:27

done to music, but it kind of

49:29

lingers a little bit afterward as we're

49:31

still enjoying our We haven't broken the

49:33

word. I'd say it typically goes through

49:36

like the new year. Yeah, typically. Like

49:38

our extended family Christmas isn't until the

49:40

27th of December. That's when we do

49:42

our, yeah, that's so yeah, we'll let

49:45

it go that way. But anyway, and

49:47

we're doing friends, something with friends like

49:49

the 28th. So yeah, yeah, absolutely. I

49:51

think we can call this Linux Lampoon's

49:54

Christmas light show. Ah, yes, that's perfect.

49:56

My last name is Chris. wall

49:58

by the way. by

50:00

the way. Yeah, we know. Or we

50:03

know. Wolf. I don't know. I

50:05

don't know. There was

50:07

a typo somewhere in

50:09

the There was a typo somewhere in the

50:11

original movie. The whole thing was just done wrong. done

50:14

wrong. Yes. Yes. It was.

50:17

It was. Anyway. Um,

50:19

it's all Linux powered

50:21

and there's Um

50:23

windows involved in

50:25

any no And in any of

50:27

it. fine. That's good. That's why I

50:29

like it. well about the lights

50:32

in your windows? about the lights

50:34

in Those are Powered

50:37

by powered by but

50:39

you said Windows weren't involved. you said

50:42

windows weren't windows

50:45

They are No proprietary operating

50:47

systems involved. I'm not allowed. windows,

50:50

not bunch of No

50:53

proprietary operating

50:56

some of those other boards, those are fun. So

50:59

is that that one of those things that you

51:01

have up article up on or is

51:03

.com or is that one of the things

51:05

you're working on? been working on I've

51:07

been working on this article since

51:09

the beginning of, well, technically I started years ago, but

51:11

as started years ago, but is when I was

51:13

actually when I was like getting all the

51:15

information together. together. then then I'm

51:17

actually just working on the last section,

51:20

which is how to program is sure program

51:22

them, make sure the X lights, like setting up lights to

51:24

work properly with with. with actual controller

51:26

itself, make sure they're synchronized and to

51:28

else. they're just some cautionary things, not

51:30

necessarily how to make a show because

51:32

that's a whole different. how

51:34

to make a show it's a lot of a whole of other

51:37

it's this is of, a bunch of other. Right.

51:39

This is just for the of stuff. This

51:41

is the zero to 25 zero to 25 article.

51:43

Just Just kind of get you going, you

51:45

you know, into or third third year, but

51:47

not actually going full speed. speed. So

51:49

that was the part that took me the that

51:51

took me the longest to understand. I

51:54

And once I understood those bits,

51:56

then it was fine. fine. So, anyway, but that's,

51:58

uh, that's what's going on. on. And,

52:00

uh, yeah, I look I look forward

52:02

to seeing your light show show whenever

52:04

it gets done. Yeah, I think think this

52:06

weekend should be a should be weekend

52:08

for this, actually. weekend for this, assuming temperature doesn't,

52:10

assuming like the cold, I don't know, but

52:12

the cold is really bothering me this year the

52:14

getting old or something. even, It's really

52:16

bothering me. bothering me this

52:19

year, and getting old or

52:21

something. It's really bothering me.

52:23

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