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Suddenly, VLC crashes when I jump forward in videos. It’s 100% reproducible. Reboot didn’t fix it. Starting on the shell, I see:
Assertion !p->parent->stash_hwaccel failed at src/libavcodec/pthread_frame.c:649
Turns out, it’s this: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=81068 Before I even went online, I assumed that turning off hardware acceleration might help. And it does. Phew!
I just learned from a German documentary that there is goldbeating. Never heard of that term before. Super interesting.
It is really cool to watch this guy building a crossbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ogGdXTGkM
This is a sick looking pour art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6tuJXn9Fo
Heck yeah, this water bellows is absolutely amazing! https://youtu.be/M6gYhD6_yLI Now, I want to make one, too, even though I do not have a real use case for this. Very rarely do I light a fire. A simple pipe to blow through would be much more mobile for my occasional need. Still, soooo cool! :-)
My wood glue rarely leaves me hanging. But today was that day again. Before lunch, I cut a slat of a slatted frame in half and glued it together. The two banana shapes were facing each other like two parentheses “()”. This made it straight.
After 3-4 hours, I unclamped it and handplaned it to its final shape, so it can become the last rung of my “ladder” for the laundry shelf. Yeah, I’m still on that project over half a year later. You can call me a really lazy ass. ;-)
When I was about to round over the long edges with my handplane, the bananas suddenly came apart. Both ends still held, so I had some kind of an “O”. The glue had not fully set yet. It was still a tiny bit moist in the inside. I scraped off the leftovers with a chisel. To increase my odds the second time, I roughed up the surfaces with 40 grit sandpaper and a rasp, so that the glue has something to bite into. Didn’t do that the first time. I reckon that majorly contributed to the fail, because the boards were fairly smooth, maybe even coated with something, who knows. Any kind of finish is bad for glueing.
Now, I’m also using a few more clamps and let it sit over night. Well, two days in fact, since I cannot bang around tomorrow. Unfortunately, I can’t finish this frame/ladder today. But maybe on Monday.
Usually, I let wood glue set at least over night, even though a couple of hours should™ suffice I’m told. I will definitely go back to that regular setting period. Especially when mechanical forces are working against me and there is stress in the wood. Never can go wrong with a longer waiting time. I have always had good experience with this in the past. In fact, whenver the wood glue failed on me, it was either removing the clamps too early or a sloppy glueing surface preparation. Or both. ;-)
Wow, time really flies. I just rotated February to May 2024 into archive feeds. So my main twtxt feed now contains only the last three full months and a little bit again.
Heck yeah! I saw my first slow worm this year. Very cool. :-) We also came across some art in the woods. Surprisingly, the blackberries in the forest were mellower than the ones on the south side bushes with sun exposure all day long.
Very humid 20°C, cloudy and partially raining. That was today’s weather when we went into the woods and paid or backyard mountain a visit: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-06-14/ Not very many folks around, looked like they all feared the liquid sunshine. The visibiliy was fairly mixed. Pretty clear in the west, we could see the Stuttgart TV tower 38.55km away (04). But very hazy to the north (03) when a rain cloud appeared.
I didn’t know I wanted to watch a half hour lecture on over center mechanisms. But this was time very well spent with This Old Tony explaining them. Worth every second, just as always, highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3Iieejyg8
Quick stroll of just one and a half hours yesterday: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-05-24/
This is cool, the Engineerguy talks about the engineering of duct tape: https://youtu.be/E-F2QQuZZGk
Heck yeah, that’s a super cool catapult! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XGACnLDEps I’d love to build one now.
Just before the rain hit us hard:
Hell yeah, this is some amazing bee stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOYLDf5Wv8