Today on my win11 work system, the windows menu stopped producing output when I typed into it and webpages stopped loading. Had to perform a full system restart to get it to work again.

If I had a group or the time, I would definitely do so!

It’s nice for sure, but be sure to stock up on medical supplies if you get into it because it is pretty much inevitable you will cut yourself (sometimes fairly badly).

I keep good stock of a lot of sanitary cotton and medical tape (much more useful than a standard adhesive bandage when it comes to bandaging odd angles on your hands), alcohol, polysporin, and cyanoacrylate glue (super glue) - which I have had to use twice since I started playing around with hand carving.

The super glue helps for deep (but not wide) cuts to protect them while they heal and to hold them closed once you have a handle on the bleeding - if the cut is both wide and deep then I would still highly recommend getting a doctor to apply stitches, though thankfully I haven’t had to do that due to the hobby so far.

I got away without any injuries on this project though!

Thanks!

Thanks, and yes I found the paint was a necessity here. Because of how the grain runs and how the stain turned out - I saw that in spots like those finer flowers toward the tip, that the carving was kind of ‘washed out’ and hard to see the shape of, so the paint helps a lot.

Thanks! I made this from a poplar dowel which was large enough in diameter that when I purchased it at the hardware store it turned the heads of several employees who also asked this haha. The color is from stain however. For that I used Minwax Penetrating Stain (Dark Walnut 2716) which is an oil based stain.

I really want to find a good wood supplier locally because if I had a better choice I would have tried with real walnut. I would also love to work with maple or cherry (though some of these are hard to hand carve with because they are very hard woods). Poplar is relatively soft so it is nicer for hand carving.

Thanks! I had to buy a magnifying visor and some pin files for this project because while carving that out was pretty straightforward, sanding inside of the grooves etc there was not haha.

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Can I ask why you used this in place of “th” mostly but not always?

Three actually I think.

When you have a new PC, put it on the old one too. You could run a Jellyfin server off it it or use it as a NAS device or something.

Well that’s not too bad honestly, so long as you know where you are to begin with. Thanks for testing!

Interesting, I haven’t heard of this. Thank you!

I’ll take a look, thank you!

I have not, but I saw someone recommending something similar as well, I’ll have to read up. Thanks!

Nice to see they took it under consideration for the future though! Thanks!

Interesting nonetheless, thanks!

Yes, I have edited my post to reflect that.

I would not be able to use the browser for use cases in which I am in the woods, wanting to look at the maps for the purpose of mapping out trails etc. It would also be handy for typical internet outage situations etc.

Is that a starship prompt? How do you style that divider above the prompt that way? It looks really good.

edit: I’ve read up a bunch on starship and now understand, very nice.

Yes, and this should mean financially supporting it. Just using it does not equate to supporting, and usually telling windows friends that you use arch btw and so should they does not equate either.

Perhaps consider a SOCKS5 reverse proxy. If done over SSH, the client systems networking would act as though they are on the server itself, traffic would be secure, and it would walk around most firewall rules that probably exist.

Using key based authentication would also make it such that it is more secure and easier for the researchers to log in - they wouldn’t even have to remember a password, they would just need some SSH client/configs.

Specifically, read up on “bastion hosts”.