I am not in the UK, but wound up biting the bullet and using QubesOS for my business machine. It’s kind of like a more straightforward to use everyday set of VMs. I have the windows qube there for running CAD/CAM and the sadly sometimes necessary Chrome install. I know this isn’t an ideal solution, but it is the best that I personally have been able to come up with without going through the headache of dual booting, especially when dealing with either govt stuff, need Chrome for crappy websites my clients sometimes force me to use, or actually needing proprietary software that I have licensed for my business (MasterCam in my case).

It also has the superior theme song.

Honestly, it’s stuff like this that makes me miss wysiwyg.

I hadn’t heard of this before, and the concept is really intriguing. Thanks for this. I’ll check it out.

I worked with Fanuc control machines for 20 years up until 2023. Sounds like you were needlessly in macro hell. Just declaring an offset will use either an H (typically height) or D (typically a radius offset in Fanuc controls, but sometimes they are setup for diameter).

It would go something like this:

G40G49G80G90 (CLEARS OUT POTENTIALLY PREVIOUS GCODES);


T1M06 (EXECUTES A TOOL CHANGE, LEAVE OUT M06 IF JUST DECLARING THE TOOL);


G43H01 (DECLARES H01 AS THE HEIGHT OFFSET);

G00ZO.O1 (MOVES THE TOOL 0.01 ABAOVE WORK);

G41D01X1.0 (DECLARES LEFT HAND TOOL OFFSET AS D01);

You don’t need true macro variables for 9/10 applications, or general operation. I feel like you got placed on some overenginered solution.

The difference between what you did and what a licensed plumber will do is liability insurance. If you somehow accidentally broke a pipe or something, home owner insurance might decide you’re the one to foot the bill for repairs, flood damage included.

It is totally worth it. That being said, I did the same thing a month ago.

The new feature is for FAST specifically.

This can vary by instance. Some do not allow posting images directly at all, while others allow relatively large files.

This is fantastic and incredibly well made. Does anyone have the source?

Would you mind explaining why Nobara is insecure, other than it being a one man project? I just recently installed it as my daily driver and due to hardware issues, distro hopping is nearly impossible (primary laptop screen is broken and even using the fn key to swap monitors won’t let me see BIOS or bootloader), so at least knowing the issues would be fantastic.

Only of they’ve played with it long enough for it to die before eating it.

This is the biggest thing that has kept me from visiting Japan. That sound sets off my misiphonia like crazy, and I’m afraid I’d wind up in a corner crying.

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Looks like the GDT bit is working now though at least.