#linuxcnc Logs

Oct 17 2025

09:27 AM Tom_L: test
09:42 AM Tom_L: may take a bit for it to index
09:42 AM JT-Shop: break is over time to split rounds
09:42 AM Tom_L: fun
09:42 AM Tom_L: you should be pretty well set for winter...
09:45 AM JT-Shop: well this wood I'm splitting is very green and not burnable
09:45 AM JT-Shop: until it dries out
09:46 AM rdtsc-w: first build the chicken-smasher 3000, then invent a wood-dryer 4000
09:47 AM JT-Shop: I have a chicken safe door but it quit working and I don't care anymore
09:48 AM JT-Shop: I have built a rack over the wood stove before to speed up drying but it didn't work too well unless the splits were very small
09:49 AM rdtsc-w: vaccum pot would dry it out, but that's way impractical
09:50 AM JT-Shop: yup
09:50 AM JT-Shop: break is over back to splitting firewood
09:51 AM Tom_L: back when i was splitting wood i found splitting when frozen made it easier
09:52 AM Tom_L: not the ideal environment for splitting wood though
09:53 AM rdtsc-w: for keeping smaller things dry, there is such thing as a solid-state dehumidifier now https://hackaday.com/2024/03/02/on-the-merits-of-a-solid-state-dehumidifier-filament-dry-box
09:55 AM Tom_L: doubt i have any pics of the splitter since that was back in the 'film' days
10:17 AM JT-Shop: I borrowed my friends tractor mounted splitter and knew what I didn't want in a splitter
10:25 AM JT-Shop: break is over...
10:34 AM rdtsc-w: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYrgG7Rn7M8
10:41 AM JT-Shop: worst ones are done time for lunch
10:42 AM JT-Shop: interesting but not very practical except for splitting large rounds
11:06 AM Tom_L: mine wasn't fancy
11:08 AM rdtsc-w: Jon makes some amazing stuff "on the farm"
11:11 AM xxcoder: jt did you see link I posted yeserday?
11:13 AM JT-Cave: yes
11:26 AM pcw_at_home1: At least with Mesa Stepgens, the PID system is _much_ better that position mode and easy to keep the local following error less than say 1/100 of a step
11:29 AM JT-Shop: cool
11:32 AM JT-Shop: nap time here
11:34 AM xxcoder: jt cool :)
11:38 AM Tom_L: just had one
11:41 AM lcnc-relay: <lesliet@> vibram@: looking at that g0 f100, wouldn't you want to use g1 f100? As I understand it, g0 is for rapid movements at the machines maximum speed, and I don't think it takes the f parameter into consideration?
11:43 AM Tom_L: true
11:49 AM lcnc-relay: <lesliet@> ( I have a habitual flinch before pressing enter on lines with a G0, that's when you're likely to crash :p )
12:15 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> Maximum velocity override is your friend..
12:20 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> finally got some decent wireless microphones..
12:21 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> 'decent'
01:17 PM rdtsc-w: skunkworks planing a video series? :)
01:42 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> lol - no. Probably just more random videos
02:33 PM JT-Shop: which one did you get?
03:52 PM Tom_L: forum guy did an interesting gui
03:54 PM Tom_L: markus
03:55 PM JT-Shop: link?
03:56 PM -!- #linuxcnc mode set to +v by ChanServ
04:09 PM Tom_itx: https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/57443-flexgui-function-load-file#336348
04:09 PM JT-Shop: ah yeah I like his jog buttons
04:09 PM Tom_L: almost wondered if it was flex at first but i'm pretty sure it is
04:09 PM JT-Shop: it is
04:09 PM Tom_L: be interesting to see the other tabs
04:09 PM JT-Shop: I have 4 more huge rounds to noodle then the rest I think I can handle
04:09 PM JT-Shop: about 29 rounds left
04:11 PM JT-Shop: I want the one that comes with the girl
04:11 PM JT-Shop: skunkworks do you have a decent video camera?
04:11 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> no - not yet
04:12 PM Tom_L: talking to a contractor recently and we both agreed it's cheaper to keeper
04:12 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> but the android phone does decent enough video for now.
04:12 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> everyone says - audio is more important
04:12 PM JT-Shop: yeah too much time with the current one
04:14 PM Tom_L: wonder how gopros are for that kind of thing
04:15 PM JT-Shop: I have one but I don't think they compare to a better video camera
04:16 PM Tom_L: yeah i use the phone but i don't put out a production video either
04:16 PM Tom_L: as long as it gets the thought across i'm ok with it
04:17 PM JT-Shop: I have a boom mike that I use when editing the videos to add audio
04:17 PM Tom_L: more than 10-15 sec facetime at the start and i'm out
04:17 PM JT-Shop: you're more tolerant than me
04:18 PM JT-Shop: face in the corner as well and I won't watch
04:18 PM JT-Shop: waving hands and shebang starts and I kill it
04:33 PM _unreal_: I just got my antique RAM upgrade for my printer
04:33 PM _unreal_: just took my late fathers old hp laserjet 4 plus from 2mb to 66MB of onboard ram :)
04:33 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I don't like to show my face.. but I guess the algorithm likes it...
04:34 PM _unreal_: takes old 70ns SIMM's got two 32mb one's maxed it out. I need to get the postscript SIMM next.
04:34 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> But there are reasons...https://photos.app.goo.gl/JgFX4SeeUy2efQbZ7
04:34 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> lol - I had a 4 plus ages ago
04:35 PM _unreal_: My EYES I'll never be the same again
04:35 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> exactly
04:35 PM _unreal_: skunk would this be a good time to mention that I'm on a reality show here in south florida?
04:35 PM _unreal_: yacht kings
04:36 PM _unreal_: heheh
04:36 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> lol - I would expect nothing less.
04:36 PM _unreal_: sad thing is its true
04:37 PM Tom_L: you picture things one way on irc and seldom are they
04:37 PM Tom_L: but i've seen that mug shot a time or three
04:40 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> This is the longest the beard has ever been... Both kids say I can't shave it off
04:42 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> And to my defence - I am not the one who put up the boob lights
04:43 PM * JT-Shop got tired of spam from hotmail so I just blocked it
04:45 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> mom and dad (rip) use msn.com
04:46 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> they actually had there internet for a short period (and I guess the email stuck)
04:46 PM JT-Shop: I watched 2 seconds of yacht kings and had to turn it off it was so loud
04:47 PM xxcoder: why is it set to be loud?
04:48 PM xxcoder: to be more appealing?
04:48 PM JT-Shop: no clue the first two seconds was an air horn or something
04:48 PM JT-Shop: not appealing to me at all
04:48 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> Lol - I didn't even try to find it. No offence...
04:49 PM xxcoder: me either
04:49 PM JT-Shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8JpTqdn3c Simon a bloke in the woods
04:49 PM xxcoder: dont know if its good bad or anything, just not really interested in the subject
04:50 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> same
04:50 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> any sort of boat..
04:50 PM JT-Shop: boats I like but not yachts
04:50 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> and I live near the mississippi
04:51 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> But.. I did watch a bunch of tally ho
04:51 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> but - that was more than just boat content
04:51 PM JT-Shop: LOL I watched it 4 times
04:52 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> Currently found farmcraft... I have that playing in the back ground a lot
04:52 PM JT-Shop: picking up wood working techniques
04:52 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> yes - a lot of old school wood working
04:53 PM xxcoder: I have big and random range of interests lol few of those, I have no direct interest but love skills being displayed
04:53 PM xxcoder: one of channels was toy car rebuilds which is awesome. and I never had any kind of interest in toy cars but yeah skills is amazing
04:53 PM xxcoder: sadly that channel stopped few years ago
04:54 PM JT-Shop: I've not seen any myford boy in a long time is he still making videos?
04:54 PM xxcoder: last I saw he rarely made ones but I gave up after so many new thing from comany thing. he got better near end but was done
04:56 PM xxcoder: wow been 4 years already. https://www.youtube.com/@baremetalHW/videos
04:56 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> hey you guys...... what do ya do with old hard drives? how do ya get rid of them ????
04:57 PM JT-Shop: scrap yard
04:57 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> at work - they are still at work.. hundreds of them
04:57 PM xxcoder: easiest would be drill though it and send to computer hardware recycler
04:57 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I mean. I would take them apart and pull the maganets. then cut the platters in half
04:58 PM xxcoder: some data might be restorable even then, but its fine for not super critical miliary secrets or whatever
04:58 PM xxcoder: but yeah best just remove magnets and platters
04:58 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> I was thinking of smacking them with a small sledge hammer, them to the elect recycling
04:58 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> someone would really have to want to get the data...
04:59 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> target practice?
04:59 PM JT-Shop: any data on old hard drives is useless
04:59 PM JT-Shop: I could shoot them out of my cannon maybe
05:00 PM Tom_L: i've taken a few apart for the magnets
05:00 PM xxcoder: easiest for noncritical would be drill though it yeah. it makes recovery way too expensive for most people
05:00 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> think I will just bash 'em really hard. then recycle center....
05:00 PM JT-Shop: hmm you can't have hammers or guns in commiformia
05:01 PM xxcoder: hm not true, that
05:01 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> got lots of hammers, and several guns.....
05:01 PM JT-Shop: just kidding
05:05 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> JT-Shop: it is weird here. i'm getting pretty tired of it all......
05:06 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> just no clue where else i'd go
05:06 PM xxcoder: reminds me of that guy who kept complaining about calfornia, moved few states to east
05:06 PM xxcoder: he didnt like new place even more than he had at calfornia
05:07 PM JT-Shop: I have no complaints about Missouri
05:07 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> except the tornadoes
05:08 PM JT-Shop: I'll trade you tornadoes for earth quakes... wait we have both
05:08 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> today is the anniversary of the big quake in '98
05:09 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> if you remember the news, and saw the raging fires in the Marina district..... that was my neighborhood.....
05:10 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> now there's talk of the Cascadia fault up north, and the San Andreas here, getting together..... can't wait.... it'll be fun.
05:10 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> shake and bake
05:10 PM Tom_L: kansas
05:11 PM Tom_L: we're flat and you can see the tornados coming
05:11 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> you got shakes too
05:11 PM Tom_L: not really
05:11 PM Tom_L: most of that was fracking
05:11 PM Tom_L: in Ok
05:13 PM Tom_L: JT likes Mo because of all the winding roads for his C8
05:13 PM JT-Shop: LOL
05:15 PM JT-Shop: I like Missouri because it's a wine region, no state building inspections, no smog.. just rednecks
05:16 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> i'm just tired of all the whiners and beggers. no matter what is going on, there'll be people bitching on all sides....
05:16 PM JT-Shop: none of that here
05:16 PM Tom_L: i think cities everywhere are full of those
05:17 PM JT-Shop: yup
05:17 PM JT-Shop: there are a few colorful beggers but they amuse me
05:17 PM Tom_L: you never used to see them here
05:18 PM Tom_L: now they're on every busy intersection
05:18 PM JT-Shop: we have signs saying to not support them
05:18 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> glad to hear it's not just here
05:18 PM Tom_L: we do too
05:18 PM Tom_L: yuppies still do
05:19 PM Tom_L: roguish, i think it's pretty much everywhere nowdays
05:20 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> It's really depressing...
05:21 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> seems like there is so little personal responsibility. so many want the govt to take total care of 'em...
05:21 PM Tom_L: at my expense
05:21 PM JT-Shop: I asked the chef for home made spaghetti tonight
05:21 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> when's dinner?
05:22 PM JT-Shop: 6:30
05:22 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> be there in a flash.....
05:22 PM JT-Shop: her home made sauce is amazine
05:22 PM JT-Shop: amazing
05:22 PM Tom_L: my mother would pan cook homemade meatballs ahead
05:23 PM JT-Shop: my sister brought meatballs to the mountains
05:23 PM xxcoder: mystery package 2 dont have million bucks sadly. just fake eyelashes
05:24 PM xxcoder: threw it away
05:24 PM JT-Shop: lol
05:25 PM Tom_L: you weren't up for a new look?
05:25 PM xxcoder: its olviously same person as pink bag of last order. I plan to see if my sis in law wants it, if not, trash it
05:25 PM xxcoder: nah.
05:26 PM xxcoder: honestly its annoying, even if few stuff I got could be useful, like car drying towel
05:27 PM xxcoder: 80% or so just go to trash
05:27 PM xxcoder: where is my million bucks dammi
05:27 PM * JT-Shop calls it a day
05:28 PM xxcoder: 2 unknowns left
05:28 PM xxcoder: I hoped this package was from my tech connections socks sub but nope
05:44 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> yup time to shut it all down, and drop off........bbl
06:05 PM _unreal_: skunk there is no such thing as an issue regarding beard length. late post just got back from being DADDY to my kid.
06:14 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> lol - my pixel 3 sucks with these mics..
06:15 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I thought these mics sucked - then I plugged them into my pixel 8? and wow - very nice.
06:15 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> it is like I could not get the level down enough on the 3
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> there is a developer setting to alter the levels of bluetooth devices
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> the pixel 3 has what bt 3.0?
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> vs 4 or 5 on the pixel 8
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> huge bandwidth diffference
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> audiotest
06:29 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WphRtuHqoRQ
06:30 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> almost seems like I could up the audio level one click
06:31 PM Tom_L: yes
06:32 PM Tom_L: comparing my volume with other yt
06:32 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> agreed
06:32 PM Tom_L: mabe more?
06:32 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I will play with it. The older phone sounded like it was clipping no matter what.
06:32 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> so I tried 0 db on this phone
06:34 PM Tom_L: i don't hear that great anyway
06:35 PM xxcoder: neither do I
06:35 PM Tom_L: :/
06:35 PM xxcoder: lol sorry on bad joke
06:36 PM Tom_L: but it was your joke
06:36 PM Tom_L: as long as you're ok with it...
06:36 PM xxcoder: yea
06:46 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> test 2 (actually probably the 15th test)
06:46 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvGUuSyzJM
06:50 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> ccatlett1984@ the reciever is plugged directly into the usb port.
06:50 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> ah, that style
06:51 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> it has a 1/8 or whatever mm - but I don't think the pixel3 has a headphone port
06:51 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I do have a 4 I could try.
06:51 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> (I would rather not use my main phone - but if that is what it takes..)
06:52 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> for now
06:52 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> you can just use a usbc to 3.5mm adapter
06:54 PM Tom_L: much better
06:55 PM Tom_L: i would call that good
06:56 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> Thanks - in kdenlive - it seems pretty close to almost too much - but doesn't clip
06:59 PM Tom_L: ever use openshot?
06:59 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> no.. I will look it up
06:59 PM Tom_L: i just grabbed one and i seemed to work for me
06:59 PM xxcoder: yeah seemed well done
07:00 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> huh - never heard of it. neat
07:00 PM Tom_L: try and see if you like it
07:00 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> it is amazing what you can do now with video editing..
07:00 PM Tom_L: yup
07:01 PM xxcoder: most of my crappy video uploads, I had edited with openshot
07:01 PM Tom_L: i had some stuff i did slide shows with transitions etc for things like seniors etc
07:01 PM Tom_L: they pick their songs and add the slideshow in
07:02 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> it came with rare earth maganets to also hold the mics through the shirt or whatever. (has clip too)
07:02 PM Tom_L: nice
07:02 PM Tom_L: unless you have a pacemakeer
07:03 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> So far so good.. I can walk pretty far away and it still is connected.
07:03 PM Tom_L: isn't bt pretty much line of sight?
07:04 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> not at all
07:05 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> on a BT 5 headset, i'm good for my entire house
07:05 PM Tom_L: that's nice
07:05 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> range is about 30 meters
07:05 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> depending on obstructions
07:05 PM Tom_L: maybe i should have phrased that different
07:05 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> I don't know what it uses to connect the mic to the reciever.. (it isn't bt to the phone)
07:05 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> it's either BT or 900Mhz
07:06 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> 900Mhz has better range
07:06 PM Tom_L: what do the usb mouse things use?
07:07 PM Tom_L: i know when i borrow my kid's car it usually connects to his phone in the basement
07:07 PM Tom_L: those are bt
07:07 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> google says 2.4 GHz Wireless
07:07 PM lcnc-relay: <ccatlett1984@> usb mouse can be, 2.4ghz, 900Mhz, or BT
07:08 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> for the dji mic mini..
07:18 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841@> my hands smell like old gas...
07:37 PM roycroft: well that was fun
07:37 PM roycroft: we're moving office today
07:38 PM xxcoder: hopefully not states away to where your boss is at now
07:38 PM roycroft: i spent weeks trying to get my boss to check things out at the new office - we needed to pull network cables before moving in
07:38 PM roycroft: i also spent hours arguing with him about ethernet cable
07:39 PM roycroft: he thought he had enough in stock and i thought it would be prudent for me to dig out my extra boxes just in case
07:39 PM roycroft: so i showed up, and he had actually hired someone to go up in the attic to pull the cables
07:40 PM roycroft: i poked my head up, immediately saw a fire wall right next to the attic access, and there was no access on the other side
07:40 PM roycroft: so we could not pull cables through the attic as he wanted
07:40 PM roycroft: then we decided to just run them along the ceiling, which sucks, but works
07:40 PM roycroft: so i grabbed the cable that he had
07:40 PM roycroft: it was stranded
07:40 PM roycroft: my network jacks are for solid cable
07:41 PM roycroft: i told him that
07:41 PM xxcoder: theres few nice covering schemes for on wall/ceiloing
07:41 PM roycroft: the cable i dug out of storage for the "just in case" circumstance was solid of course
07:41 PM xxcoder: hmm thought there was no real difference besides cost, stranded being more money
07:41 PM roycroft: so i ended up using my cable instead of his
07:41 PM roycroft: there is
07:41 PM xxcoder: been long while since I needed to do networking stuff
07:41 PM roycroft: the termations are different
07:42 PM roycroft: what's funny is that he told me the other day that he has no stranded cable
07:42 PM roycroft: and i told him we needed it for the runs to the individual machines, and that while i have a spool of it, i need it for my house, and i'd have to charge him replacement cost for it
07:42 PM roycroft: which pissed him off
07:42 PM roycroft: but it turns out that all he has is stranded cable
07:43 PM roycroft: and i am giving him the solid cable - i need to get rid of it
07:43 PM roycroft: so that fiasco was handled, because i did not listen to my boss :)
07:44 PM roycroft: then the movers arrived, and they brought in and set up the big xerox printer
07:44 PM roycroft: it's like 5m long - really big
07:44 PM xxcoder: thats insane
07:44 PM roycroft: he had them set it up with the outfeed conveyor about 300mm from the wall
07:44 PM roycroft: and there was a good 7-8m of open space on the other end
07:45 PM roycroft: i told him he should move it farther away from the wall, because the space was so narrow someone could trip over it and hurt themself
07:45 PM roycroft: he said he wanted it that way and it would be fin
07:45 PM roycroft: e
07:45 PM roycroft: about an hour later his kid showed up and was unloading boxes from his car
07:46 PM roycroft: he needed to bring some behind the xerox printer, and went on the outfeed side
07:46 PM roycroft: he tripped over the outfeed conveyor, dropped the boxes, and totally destroyed the conveyor
07:46 PM roycroft: that's probably goning to cost my boss a couple thousand dollars to fix
07:47 PM roycroft: it took every bit of will power i could muster up, but i did not react at all
07:47 PM roycroft: so fun friday :)
07:50 PM xxcoder: costly for them
07:55 PM roycroft: yeah
07:55 PM roycroft: it's all so unnecessary
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